Build a robot -> Get a YC Interview Introducing RoboHacks, hosted at Y Combinator by Innate and Iterate. 36h 25 Robots 120 builders 15k in prizes Thank you to our partners: NASA (@ilopezfr), @scale_AI, DeepMind, ElevenLabs, Nebius and Dryft. luma.com/robohacks-at-YC

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We brought robots to @ycombinator 1100 applications around the world 12% acceptance rate 24 Innate robots For 36 hours straight, 120 hackers built physical agents in the most famous office in the bay. You can check out all the projects on hackiterate.com

I won an RTX 5090 GPU at Mistral AI worldwide hackathon in Paris, and I have absolutely no idea on how to use it. Here's what I actually built: an image generation model fine-tuned to do technical analysis on trading charts. I trained it on an NVIDIA cloud GPU then back-tested it against Binance historical data. The model was profitable. The jury didn't quite catch the vibe. But apparently someone did because two weeks later, they reached out to tell me I'd won the NVIDIA track. Today, a €4,000 RTX Founders Edition showed up at my door. Absolutely gorgeous piece of hardware. One small problem: I use a MacBook. So if anyone has creative suggestions for what to do with a top-tier GPU and no desktop to put it in… I'm listening Huge thanks to NVIDIA, Mistral AI and Iterate team for appreciating my weird idea and an attempt to push tech to its boundaries

We won the Grand Prize and Best use of Data Prize at robohacks, @ycombinator and @innate_bot In ~27 hours, we built a zero-shot spatial memory layer that lets a robot understand a new environment from a single video walkthrough.

presented at the @ycombinator office! at RoboHacks, we built Recon, an autonomous explosive-defusal robot that detects humans through walls (2nd overall). totally worth the two all-nighters. built with @OfficialNathanY @pathofseb, Paavan Gupta, Ethan Lai, Daniel Wang

What a weekend at @ycombinator for the robotics hackathon. You could feel the field becoming more concrete in real time. Glad to be on judging panel from @nebiusai & amazing to see teams building on Nebius through the weekend, plus fun to see the UFB powered by Nebius

“Can you make a robot actually do something useful” ❗️Saturday 11 April 👉 9:00 - 17:00 GMT-7 📍 San Francisco, California Registrations here: luma.com/robohacks-at-YC @innate_bot, @GoogleDeepMind, @NASA, @ycombinator

Insanely cool organizing the robot hackathon with @innate_bot at @ycombinator this weekend ! Will hardware hacks overpower software ? 👀 Huge thanks to our sponsors for making this happen @GoogleDeepMind @scale_AI @nebiusai @PalatialSim and everyone involved !

dream weekend at robohacks by @innate_bot at the @ycombinator office. my first exposure to hardware was so fun! we got a special mention for the @GoogleDeepMind track. will drop details of the project below team rm -rf \legs 🐐

Was a lot of fun to see in person

The second team blew me away because it shows that a robot that might not have good enough hands to do something specific can: 1. Recognize that with an AI agent 2. Build its own tool 3. 3D print the tool to grab a new object or do something new 4. Grab that tool out of the 3D printer and use it to manipulate the world in a new way This all happens automatically, and it just shows that there is so much of a future in robotics that we haven't even thought about. It really blew my mind.

Just a little taste of the Robohacks hackathon happening now at @ycombinator in San Francisco. This is only two of the teams. The first is a team building a robot for an AirBnb on Mars. The second built a system that 3D prints new tools for the robot to do new work on Mars. Both demonstrate why I love builders so much. Dreaming of a new world and learning together how to build for a new robot none of them have used before.

Met Wall-E today at the @ycombinator hackathon sponsored by @GoogleDeepMind We got more than 1000 registrants for the event! Super cool seeing everyone here :)

Greetings from the @ycombinator office. The PrismaX team is here sponsoring RoboHacks this weekend — 36 hours, 25 robots, 120 builders. Good to be in the room.🤖💪 @innate_bot @iterate @GoogleDeepMind, @scale_AI, @NASA

Massive crowd for the @GoogleDeepMind @scale_AI @nebiusai @ElevenLabs @ycombinator @nasa robotics hackathon this morning! 🤖🙌 And extremely, extremely cool (and cute) Innate robots, jazzed to see how people use them with Gemini Live and the @GoogleAIStudio APIs.

At the @ycombinator @innate_bot hackathon today. Always humbling learning from folks and thanks to @agibot_research for their demo. Sadly I missed @chris_j_paxton.

RT @ethroboticsclub: We’re selecting 4 of Europe’s best roboticists and flying them to San Francisco, together with @HackIterate. If you w…

Time to build general-purpose robots, on hardware made in SF We are bringing @NASA @GoogleDeepMind @scale_AI and more at @ycombinator for a general-purpose robotics hackathon Each team will have a robot and compete across all Al modalities to make the coolest AI project ⬇️

I won @MistralAI San Francisco 🇺🇸!! I built Drawn Worlds, an interactive storybook for kids, where their drawings are turned into a story. A smart AI agent understands their drawings and voice notes, asks them to make choices, and builds a magical story step by step, adding voice, images, sound effects and cozy background music along the way. Special thanks to the amazing people there and the amazing team organizing it @HackIterate !