Timeline
Dec 1st
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Open to registration
Jan 13th
7 - 9 PM
Online Workshop 1
Jan 15th
6 - 7 PM
Onsite: Team Meet Up and Formation
Jan 15th
7 - 9 PM
Onsite Workshop: Dev Env Setup and Tech Support
Jan 16th
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Dev Day
Jan 17th
3 PM
Submission Deadline
Jan 17th
3:30 PM - 5 PM
Pitch
Jan 17th
3 PM - 6 PM
Project Expo
Jan 17th
6 PM
Awards Ceremony & Social
Prizes & Awards
All Teams
Lovable + Qwen Credits, Dev Boards, Maker's PCB Badge
AIoT 1st Prize
$1200 in cash + AI Dev Boards
AIoT 2nd Prize
$1000 in cash + AI Dev Boards
AIoT 3rd Prize
$800 in cash + AI Dev Boards
Robotics 1st Prize
$1200 in cash
Robotics 2nd Prize
$1000 in cash
Robotics 3rd Prize
$800 in cash
Best Use of 3D Printing
Bambu Lab 3D Printers
Special Awards
10 X OpenClaw Computers
Best Use of Vibe Coding
1 year of Lovable Pro Membership
Why join?
Most hackathons stop at the screen. This one doesn't.
Hardware is hard to run — boards, robot arms, toolchains, and someone awake at 2am when yours stops responding. We handle that part.
Every team gets real hardware, free, and mentors who have already debugged it.
48 hours from idea to a working demo you can put on a table and switch on.
Who should join?
Engineers ready to build past the browser tab — embedded, robotics, vision, voice, or none of it yet.
Makers and hardware tinkerers who would rather solder than make slides.
Researchers and founders with a Physical AI idea that needs a working prototype, not another paper.
Past builders came from Stanford, UC Berkeley, MIT, Google and NVIDIA. Every one of them applied — we select 150 from 400+.
What to build?
Two tracks. Both ship real hardware.
AIoT — devices that sense, speak and react
AI pet badge · voice clock that coaches you · mood or astrology widget · AI companions with emotion, animation or speech · smart mirrors and displays with personalized intelligence · wearables, ambient devices, AI toys
Robotics — machines that move and act
arms that see and grasp · mobile robots that navigate, follow or fetch · teleoperation and imitation learning · sim-to-real on real hardware
Need a starting point? → 50 Physical AI Project Ideas
