Embodied robot hackathon saw 10 of 12 teams ship working demos overnight
DJiafei · x · 2026-07-26
A post says it is wild to see so many winning teams build on top of MolmoAct2, in response to the Embodied Metal Hackathon results.
The quoted hackathon update says:
- 70 hackers, 21 robots, 12 teams
- 10 teams shipped working robots by Sunday’s live judging
- data was collected on Saturday, models were trained overnight, and demos ran on real hardware
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