

OpenClaw Agent for Science Build Challenge
Build an AI agent. Show us what it does. Win a ticket to the AI for Science Summit.
Agent tooling is exploding right now — BenchClaw, LabOS, ClawInstitute, Hermes, Paperclip, and a dozen more landing every month. At our last cell cultivation hack, two OpenClaw agents came out of it: one that programmed a robotic workcell, and one that worked as a scientific personal assistant. We want to see what else is possible.
This is a build challenge. Make something, demo it, ship it open source.
What to build
An agent with a loop and tools, applied to a specific use case. Stack-agnostic: OpenClaw, Hermes, Paperclip, roll your own, whatever.
We care about the idea and the demo, not the framework. Think about how you evaluate the results.
Guidelines
Build a proof of concept and prototype to demo
Prep a 3min Loom video demo to share
Make the GitHub repo open source
Submit the loom video and GitHub repo here by April 30th 11:59p PT
What we're looking for
Clear use case
Creative solution
Something a scientist, lab, researcher, or hardware team could actually imagine using
Rough edges are fine. We'd rather see a real idea half-built than a polished demo of nothing.
Prizes
Top 3 builds win free tickets and a chance to demo for the AI for Science Summit (June 16–17, SF). Two days with 100+ founders, builders, and researchers building scientific agents, lab automation, and AI-driven research.
Why we're running this
The fastest way to understand where agents are going is to build one. This is an excuse to do that.
Hosts
Worldwide Studios is a CA 501c3 education non profit helping people build with the latest in AI, hardware, robotics, and applied sciences. They're hosting a 2 day AI for Science Summit in SF, June 16-17.