Join the AMD Open Robotics Hackathon

Summary

AMD, Hugging Face, and Data Monsters announced the AMD Open Robotics Hackathon, an in-person competition scheduled for Tokyo and Paris in December 2025. Participating teams of up to four adults will compete over three days across two core missions. The first mission covers an instructor-led session on configuring the LeRobot development environment using AMD AI solutions. During the second mission, teams spend two days developing a freestyle project to address a real-world problem using LeRobot. Participants receive access to SO-101 robotics kits, AMD Ryzen AI laptops, and AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs via AMD Developer Cloud, with prizes awarded to the top seven teams in each city based on creativity, difficulty, ease-of-use, and practicality.

Takeaways

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   The hackathon takes place in Tokyo (December 5-7, 2025) and Paris (December 12-14, 2025) for teams of up to four participants aged 18 and older.

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   Contestants receive hardware including SO-101 robotics kits, AMD Ryzen AI processor-equipped laptops, and cloud access to AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs.

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   Judging evaluates Mission 2 freestyle projects on a 100-point scale across creativity, difficulty, ease-of-use, and practicality, with prizes awarded to the top seven teams per city.