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PhAIL and Nebius Launch Robot Policy Competition

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The PhAIL team and Nebius launch a robot policy competition: participants train policies and package them as Docker images for submission, which are first scored in two simulation environments, MolmoSpaces and RoboLab, with RoboLab enabled starting November 16. In December, the top ten participants will run the same images on real Franka robots, with tasks similar to the DROID benchmark but using different datasets. Policies must fit within 24 GB of VRAM (equivalent to one 4090 GPU) so that participants can test locally. The prize pool is $23,500 worth of Nebius GPU and evaluation credits, including $1,000 awarded for best open-source writing. A follow-up report refers to the organizers as Positronic Robotics and Nebius, describing it as an international physical AI competition for developers and research teams, running until December 2026, with the prize described as over $20,000 in Nebius GPU compute and Positronic evaluation credits.

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11月10日
  1. Robotics & Automation News
    Nebius and Positronic launch physical AI competition to evaluate robot manipulation models

    Positronic Robotics and Nebius have launched an international physical AI competition, inviting developers and research teams to submit robot manipulation models. Models will first be evaluated in simulation, with the top 10 advancing to testing on physical robotic arms. The competition runs through December 2026.

10月30日
  1. Reddit r/robotics
    PhAIL launches robot policy competition: top 10 after two simulation rankings advance to real Franka finals

    The PhAIL team and Nebius have launched a robot policy competition. Participants package their policies as Docker submissions, which are first scored in two simulations: MolmoSpaces and RoboLab starting November 16. In December, the top 10 will run the same image on a real Franka. The tasks resemble the DROID benchmark but use a different dataset.

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