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Apr 1, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

72 Hours, 100 Real Robots, 1M+ Compute: How a ‘No‑Cheat’ Contest Ended Embodied AI Score‑Chasing

The inaugural EAIDC embodied‑AI hackathon brought over a million FLOPs of compute, nearly a hundred six‑axis robots, and a 72‑hour window for 20 teams to collect data, train models, and deploy on real hardware, revealing the true performance gap of open‑source models and the need for open, real‑world benchmarking.