You’re free to choose the stack you know best. The focus is on end-to-end value for a real user, not on any specific framework.

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🧪 Software-only robotics

All submissions must be:

• Simulation-based – robots, environments, and behaviors running in a simulator

• Digital twins or virtual environments – modeled warehouses, factories, farms, buildings, etc.

• Robotics devtools / platforms – dashboards, orchestration, monitoring, analytics, CI/CD, or other software for robotics teams

If judges can open your app in a browser and see your product or simulation in action, you’re in the right place.

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🦾 Robotics stack & simulation

You might use:

• Frameworks: ROS / ROS 2 or your own robotics middleware

• Simulators: Gazebo / Ignition, Webots, Isaac Sim, Unity, Unreal, or similar

• Digital twins: simplified models of real-world spaces to demonstrate your use case (e.g., warehouse aisles, hospital corridors, fields)

Use whatever lets you show a realistic scenario for your “robotics startup” in software.

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🧠 AI, perception & planning

Combine AI with your robotics logic, for example:

• Vision models on simulated camera feeds (detection, tracking, segmentation, pose estimation)

• SLAM, mapping, localization, or navigation using simulated sensor data

• LLMs or agents for task planning, instruction-following, operator copilots, or workflow automation

• Rule-based or learned decision layers that decide what the robot(s) do next in sim

🎛 Control, orchestration & ops

Build the software layer that would actually run a robotics product:

• High-level control of single robots or fleets in simulation

• Task/job scheduling across multiple simulated agents

• Teleoperation UIs that control simulated robots

• Monitoring, logging, replay and debugging tools for simulated runs

🖥 Product & UX

Remember: this is a startup-focused challenge, not just a technical one. Think about the product experience:

• Operator dashboards and control panels (web apps)

• Analytics views and alerts for robotics teams or customers

• APIs and webhooks so other systems can integrate with your robotics product