K-Hacks - Humanoid Robot Hackathon ($20k+ in Prizes)
Get ready for K-Hacks 0.2!!
You’ll have access to:
10+ humanoid robots:
3D printers, soldering stations, and a bunch of electronics hardware & tools
You’ll also get a sneak peak of the upcoming K-Scale humanoid robots
Come and built cool robots! Feel free to bring the robots you're working on currently as well!
🏆 Prizes - $21,000+
🥇 First Place: K-Scale K-Bot ($20,000 humanoid robot)
🥈 Second Place: Seeed Studio NVIDIA Jetson + Seeed StudioReCamera + Zeroth 02 (~$1700)
🥉 Third Place: Robstride Actuator + Zeroth 01 robot (~$700)
The judging criteria is based on technical execution and demos.
Track 1: Coolest Robot Demo Video
Make the robots do the coolest thing and take a video!!! Make some coffee, do a dance, do ALOHA teleoperation. Video demo coolness will be evaluated using a well-calibrated cool-o-meter.
Track 2: Capabilities and Ecosystem Expansion
Improve the current KOS, inference, simulation, and libraries. The winner will be judged by technical execution and creativity.
Track 3: Humanoid Olympics
We’ll be hosting 3 events: boxing and dancing with Zeroth Bots, and the winner get take 1 of the Zeroth Bots home AND qualify for track 1 awards as well.
The top of each track will enter for the prize pool. Additionally, demos will be attended several investors who have experience in the robotics and AI space.
Judges: Ben Bolte, Jingxiang Mo, Rui Xu, Paweł Budzianowski
🛠️ Equipments
3D printers
We use the Bambu Labs X1 Carbon printers
Please contact Ben or JX for assistance setting up the printers
Electronics bench
Two soldering stations
Power supply, multimeter, and other relevant equipment
Assorted resistors, capacitors, and other components
Actuators
We have a limited number of actuators available so we suggest bringing your own
We have CAN controllers available
Some of what we have:
Jetsons
GPUs
🗓️ Timeline
Saturday
10:00 AM: Check-in & Kickoff
12:00 PM: Lunch
6:00 PM: Dinner
10:00 PM: Quiet Hours
Sunday
8:00 AM: Breakfast
12:00 PM: Lunch
5:00 PM: Dinner & Demos
To conclude the hackathon we will host a demo session showcasing the projects that people have worked on. This will be technical demos, not company pitches.
If you are only interested in attending for the demo session, please make a note when signing up so we can plan for food.
🤝 Sponsors & Supporters
This hackathon is proudly sponsored and supported by Lenovo Capital, Seeed Studio, Huggingface, K-Scale Labs.
📜 Code of Conduct
For more information, see our docs.