Ant threw its robot contest open to the world, hardware included.
Ant Group's robotics arm opened its first embodied AI challenge on Monday. Companies, universities and individual developers anywhere can enter, using the open-source LingBot-VLA model. Teams run simulation tasks online, and those picked get real robots at a Shanghai hackathon. Registration and the online round close on 26 October.
Why it mattersTraining robots normally needs hardware most people cannot buy, and this hands it over for three days. Cloud computing is offered too, so the entry cost is a team and an idea.
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