Seeed 2026 Embodied AI Hackathon in Santa Clara
Bring Digital AI to Life with Reachy Mini Robot & NVIDIA Jetson Computational Horsepower!
Together with NVIDIA Jetson Orin computing, Hugging Face open-source models & dev framework, and Pollen Robotics designed Reachy Mini physical companion robot, now researchers and developers can explore more multimodal AI possibilities by building a personal AI agent. Join our weekend hackathon right after NVIDIA GTC 2026, in Santa Clara, U.S.!
📣 Register here! !(Submit request via Google form, we'll review soon and send a confirmation email to you by March 8th once approved)
The Robotics Community Thrives When We Build Together
Join forces with Seeed Studio, NVIDIA, Hugging Face, and Pollen Robotics to explore building your advanced personal robot agent and accelerate research and innovation in AI robotics. We truly appreciate our ecosystem partners' support during this event -
Agora, the global leader in real-time engagement, providing developers with simple, flexible, and powerful APIs to embed conversational AI, voice, video, interactive live streaming, and chat into applications and IoT devices.
PamirAI, who specializes in developing edge AI hardware and software solutions that operate without constant internet connectivity, ensuring privacy and real-time decision-making.
Solo Tech, who delivers a complete toolkit from fine-tuned AI model hosting to on-device inference, bringing the power of AI directly to developers' device, ensuring simple, personalized, and performant AI in the physical world.
Event Overview
Get Hands-on experience of Reachy Mini development - joy of hardware assembly, calibration, and open model deployment.
Utilize Hugging Face's Reachy Mini Apps to discover advanced AI applications with rich interaction first, then build your own app on Hugging Face's official space!
Don't stop as the first step of building one app - bring Reachy Mini into your daily life, integrate the full capabilities of the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit to run cutting-edge open-source models directly on Reachy Mini, enabling real-time embodied intelligence at the edge.
Participants are encouraged to experiment with and integrate these open models: CR2 2B, Gemma 3 4b, Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct, Qwen3.5-VL-2B , Ibm-granite_granite-vision-3.2-2b, SmolVLM2-2.2B, LFM2-VL-1.6B, etc.
Judging Criteria:
The evaluation will be conducted by a panel of technical experts from Seeed Studio CEO Eric Pan, NVIDIA Developer Advocate Johnny Núñez Cano, Hugging Face Robotics Engineer Pepijn Kooijmans and Steven Palma, and Agora Head of Physical AI Lawrence Wu based on the following weighted criteria(More judges to be announced)
📋 Core Requirements
STEP 1. All participating teams must utilize the designated hackathon hardware stack:
Reachy Mini — Pollen Robotics' open-source humanoid robot platform
NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit — Edge AI computing platform for on-device inference
STEP 2. Share your final project demos on X and tag Seeed Studio, NVIDIA Robotics, Hugging Face, and PollenRobotics. (If you're willing to submit more comprehensive project document to get bonus point, feel free to send it to [email protected])
STEP 3. Submit your project on Hugging Face Apps space in the meanwhile.
⚖️ Evaluation Criteria
Submissions will be assessed based on the following weighted criteria:
Project Completion 30%
Technical Implementation & Model Utilization 40%
Innovation & Creativity 30%
**Bonus Points:
Teams are strongly encouraged to incorporate the following open technology stacks for additional credit:
NVIDIA OSS Model Integration : +10 Points
TensorRT Edge-LLM: +5 Points
Isaac Sim： +5 Points
Open Claw: +5 Points
Agora Integration: +5 Points
Submit Comprehensive Project Documentation：+5 points
Maximum Total Score: 100% (Base Criteria) + up to 35% (Bonus Points)
Calling developers, engineers, and robotics enthusiasts eager to explore advanced AI and robotics.
Check out our past 2025 Embodied AI Highlights
Check out our wiki documentation
🎉🎉 Over $6000 Winner Prize!!
Every participant will receive an official certificate, and each team is guaranteed to win a team award！
First Prize (1st–3rd Place) $1,000 per Team
Second Prize (4th–8th Place) 1× Reachy Mini per Team
Third Prize (9th–15th Place) $200 Seeed Studio Store Coupon per Team
Participation Award (16th–25th Place) 1× Amazing Hand per Team
⏰ Timeline
Saturday（03/21）
9:00 AM: Check-in & Kickoff
(Beverages and snacks are available during the hackathon)
8:00 PM: Quiet Hours(NO VENUE OVERNIGHT)
Sunday（03/22）
9:00 AM: Continue Dev Progress
(Beverages and snacks are available during the hackathon)
4:00 PM: Demos Presentation & Networking
We’ll conclude the hackathon with a demo session showcasing the technical projects participants have built—no company pitches.
What We Provide
Reachy Mini robot
NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano developer kits
Online Resources and tech support in-person:
Assembly, dashboard control, coding debug, applications, and more steps are available on our wiki guidance.
Agora Conversational SDK
Toolkits for assembly
If you have any questions in mind, feel free to contact us anytime via email: [email protected]