MIT Media Lab to host ScienceClaw hackathon on decentralized scientific agent collectives
ProfBuehlerMIT · x · 2026-09-20
MIT Media Lab will host the ScienceClaw "Internet of Agents" hackathon on Oct 30–Nov 1, 2026, focused on building decentralized collectives of AI agents that solve real scientific and technical problems.
Key details:
- 3 days, in person; teams of 2–5; unlimited agent collectives; 4 challenge areas
- Themes: decentralized infrastructure, real-world applications, physical agency, open science, collective intelligence
- Teams must demonstrate a working agentic system—not just an architecture—including real results and validation (evidence, benchmarks, or real-world tests)
- Model- and framework-agnostic: frontier models, open models, robots, sensors, lab tools all allowed
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