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Starting next week, the Earth Rover Grand Challenges will be at @ieeeiros IROS 2026
11 teams will test their navigation policies in 4 tracks ranging from city to indoor / off-terrain to marathon (50 miles of sidewalks, overpasses and bike paths)
Let the competitions begin 🦾
Nobody has driven a mini rover from UC Berkeley to Stanford on its own.
Humans have done it by remote control, navigating 50 miles in 29 hours and 38 minutes.
That's the benchmark to beat at the Earth Rover Challenge co-organized by @BitRobotNetwork at @ieeeiros IROS 2026 ↓
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Packed room at our office launch last Friday!
Builders from Physical Intelligence, Google DeepMind, Tesla, Anthropic, Dyna + beyond explored the full human data stack we’re building, from capture hardware to enrichment to training-ready outputs.
GSI was built to plug easily into the training flows teams already use.
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Excited to co-organize the Origami Grand Challenge with @SharpaRobotics at @ieeeras IROS next week.
Sharpa builds advanced dexterous robotic hands and embodied AI models.
Over a dozen teams will put their policies to the test by autonomously folding a paper airplane.
Sharpa will be co-hosting two competitions at IROS 2026.
Powered by Sharpa's robot platforms and software, the 2nd ROCO and Origami challenges (cohosted by @BitRobotNetwork) brought together 48 teams from leading institutions around the world—including Carnegie Mellon University, UC Berkeley, KAIST and NUS.
Across both competitions, teams will put robotic manipulation and dexterity to the test on Sharpa hardware through challenging real-world tasks.
Follow the challenges for more:
ROCO: @NtuLab38456
Origami: robotic-origami-challenge.gi…
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Next week, we’re heading to @ieee_ras_icra IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh with 50+ research teams pushing the frontier in 3 Grand Challenges:
> Autonomous navigation w/ Earth Rover
> Dexterity thru origami folding
> Loco-manipulation thru Ikea assembly
Excited to organize this w/ partners like @SharpaRobotics @LightwheelAI @UnitreeRobotics and more.
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Last day to claim the Day 1 Badge for those who signed up during the BitRobot Bolts App countdown.
Claim expires 11:59PM ET, Sept 21 (3:59 AM UTC on September 22).
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We posted an update with the community that we’re patching the Bolts connection and have been very transparent. The team has been sorting thru open tickets, and will get to yours as soon as we can
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gbot, your @axisrobotics earnings are loaded in the BitRobot Bolts App.
Sign into the Lab, click Profile and connect. Share your IDs below!
Reminder: if you signed up w/ email during our App launch countdown, final day to claim the Day 1 badge is Mon Sept 21, 11:59PM ET
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