  In this work we present a platform to assess robot platform skills using an
internet-of-things (IoT) task board device to aggregate performances across
remote sites. We demonstrate a concept for a modular, scale-able device and web
dashboard enabling remote competitions as an alternative to in-person robot
competitions. We share data from nine robot platforms located across four
continents in three manipulation task categories of object localization, object
insertion, and component disassembly through an organized international robot
competition - the Robothon Grand Challenge. This paper discusses the design of
an electronic task board, the strategies implemented by the top-performing
teams and compares their results with a benchmark solution to the presented
task board. Through this platform, we demonstrate fully remote, online
competitions can generate innovative robotic solutions and tested a tool for
measuring remote performances. Using the open-sourced task board code and
design files, the reader can reproduce the benchmark solution or configure the
platform for their own use case and share their results transparently without
transporting their robot platform.
