Autonomous Systems for Customer Experience, Safety, and Operations at YPF Full-Black store
Awards a $20,000 pilot to autonomous tech for retail service, security or monitoring.
YPF runs this as an Innocentive Scouting Challenge: solvers register for an Innocentive account, accept the Challenge Agreement that sets out IP terms between solver and YPF, and then submit one written proposal per track through the Innocentive Challenge Center. The submission form itself carries the evaluation weight — attachments such as renders, schematics and videos are additional context onl…
YPF wants mature, pilot-ready autonomous or AI systems for its Full-Black convenience store in Nordelta, Argentina, across three tracks: an in-store service assistant, autonomous security patrol and monitoring, or intelligent service-quality monitoring. Solutions must already show technical feasibility and be ready for a real customer-facing pilot, at Technology Readiness Level 6 to 9.
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