We at @ActorLabs are collaborating with @physical_int to host act-athon, a physical ai hackathon on September 25-27 in Mountain View, CA. The premise: we provide you an embodiment, and your job is to make it think and act.

Applications are here: https://t.co/k5sjNR4zMA https://t.co/AXVDp3N6Kr

act-athon

Source: https://act-athon.com/ a physical AI hackathon, hosted byactor labsin collaboration withphysical intelligence.

teams of 3. 36 hours. deploypi 0.7onto one of:

• mini electric excavators
• remote controlled heavy equipment
• drones
• manipulators

when:   sep 25, 6pm  ->  sep 27, 12pm
where:  mountain view, ca  (exact address sent to accepted participants)
who:    45 participants, teams of 3
cost:   free

logistics

food, caffeine, work space, 3d printer farm, tools, parts - all provided.

we’ll have a wide spread of food options - tell us your allergies in the signup form.

note: if you want to sleep, you will need to bring a tent!

prizes

top four teams- pick from:

• BambuLabs 3D printers
• a comma 4 (from comma.ai)
• microcenter gift cards
• an old retro macintosh
• a typewriter

interviews- possibility for all participants.

prerequisites

you should have:

• some background with VLAs (vision-language-action models) - trained, fine-tuned, or deployed one
• hardware tinkering knowledge - you’ve jailbroken electronics, bread-boarded things

we’re mainly interested in participants with this background.

judges

• Lane Burgett - CEO, actor labs
• Shashi Verma - CTO, actor labs
• Jack Vierhus - hardware engineer, actor labs
• Quan - physical intelligence
• to be added...

sponsors

interested in sponsoring prizes and logistics? contact[email protected].

what we’re looking for from sponsors ->

sign up

45 spots available.

questions:[email protected]