The Physical AI Sprint Monday, August 17, 2026

Project showcase

What teams built

Every project built at the Physical AI Sprint — a one-day hackathon alongside Actuate SF, hosted by Nebius with NVIDIA, Antioch, and Toloka.

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404team work

Teleoperation of so-101 plus controlling follower arm in the simulation from the leader arm in the real world

3 members

Back Online

Factory SRE is a mobile robotic first responder for factory downtime.

4 members

Bruno - the Librarian

An autonomous librarian that helps human staff manage libraries, retrieves requested books from shelves, and safely hands them to people.

3 members

Collaborative Reference Frames For Assistive Robotics

Using Meta Glasses vision stream combined with an actuator camera to build corrective prompts for a VLA.

6 members

Desk Duster

Our project cleans desks.

3 members

Edie Sees You

Edie is a physical AI companion who sees what you're doing and responds in real time.

1 member

Fastloop

fastloop is a physical ai control plane for authoring robot tasks in a 3d digital twin and running the same versioned contract through simulation and a real so-101.

6 members

Humanoid Yoga Instructor

Yoga is thousands of years old, but in the last decade it's gone mainstream in the West.

6 members

NemoCode

Connect your coding agent to NVIDIA Nemotron and Cosmos on Nebius Token Factory — one install, four harnesses, config-free.

Sim only 1 member

Physical AI Perception-Reasoning-Action Pipeline for a Robotic Arm

Built and hardware-verified a SO-ARM101 control stack: real-time object detection via webcam (OpenCV) with tuned color/contour filtering, camera-to-robot coordinate calibration using forward

2 members

REFLECT Real-world Failure-Led Embodied Continual Training

Most robot policies are trained once, deployed once, and frozen — when reality diverges from simulation, the loop stops.

2 members

Robot skills graph

A way to track skills and attempts for replay and learning

1 member

SAFFRON - procedural saffron harvesting cell (reach verified, grasp not yet)

Saffron is the most expensive crop on earth: a kilogram is ~150,000 crocus flowers, each hand-picked for exactly three red stigma threads.

1 member

The first experiment

We were trying to get the arm move the object from one place to another.

1 member

Tubot

Identifying and picking tubes.

2 members

V9 Max

ONCE — show a robot once.

1 member

Within Reach

Within Reach An assistive robotic system for people with limited upper-body mobility.

1 member
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