a physical AI hackathon, hosted by actor labs in collaboration with physical intelligence.

teams of 3. 36 hours. deploy pi 0.7 onto 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
• tbc...

sponsors

tbd!!

what we're looking for from sponsors ->

sign up

45 spots available.

questions: lane@labs.actor