Belated life update: I’m back in the Solana ecosystem as Head of Marketing at @BitRobotNetwork.
If you saw robots fighting at Breakpoint — that was us. It was our Trojan horse to drive curiosity about robotics.
At BitRobot, we’re building the world's open robotics lab.
We partner with researchers and robotics labs to collect the right data, test robots in the real world, and improve their models faster by coordinating contributors, hardware, and compute across a global network.
Building this onchain allows us to track who did what and reward contributors, like Scale AI, but built specifically for robots.
Solana is also where DePIN trailblazers like Helium, Render, Hivemapper, and GEODNET took root, and where DePIN robotics (or DePAI) naturally belongs.
Since joining in August, it has been a privilege to work with @amanda0x@jnthnvctr@micoolcho and learn how crypto can meaningfully impact robotics’ biggest bottleneck: data.
In the last few months, we’ve:
- shown up and keynoted at @corl_conf, the largest robotics learning conference
- announced a $5M Grand Challenges Fund to support open-source, moonshot embodied AI models
- launched Subnet 5 with @virtuals_io, collecting 1M+ household tasks to train robots via the SeeSaw iOS app
- partnered with @huggingface to open-source the Earth Rovers platform from @frodobots
- and pulled off the first global robot cage fight in the UAE with @UFBots at @SolanaConf
NFTs → DeFi → robotics wasn’t on my career bingo card, but it feels right to build again on Solana, this time in DePIN and working on something that can radically transform industries.
If anyone is interested in being robot-pilled or collabing on building open robotics R&D, let's chat!
Can your robot outperform a grandmaster from the Nippon Origami Society at folding a paper airplane?
Enter the Robotic Origami Competition at @ieeeras IROS 2026 to check it out!
Can a robot beat a human origami grandmaster? We're sponsoring the Robotic Origami Competition at @ieeeras IROS 2026 to find out.
Participating teams get 500+ teleop episodes, @LightwheelAI sim access, and remote @SharpaRobotics hand evals.
Registration link below 👇
We’re giving limited private access codes to select communities for TeleArms: RoboPlayground.
If your community wants early exposure to robotics, physical AI, and BitRobot rewards, apply below. 🦾
https://t.co/AmuCCRcNe7
35 new robot missions on TeleArms: RoboPlayground. 35 new ways to earn rewards and push robotics forward.
Access codes available for select communities and supporters only. Who should we add?
We shipped a new site for RoboCap — our egocentric hardware platform for embodied AI data collection.
It’s probably one of the most feature-rich first-person POV capture wearables on the market for robotics training.
Excited to share more of what we’re building with it soon.
In robotics, data volume alone isn’t enough. Quality, geographic diversity, and dynamic real-world environments matter.
RoboCap is our hardware platform designed to capture the richest egocentric datasets for embodied AI.
Explore the new site: https://t.co/B0ejMdf3j9
We just shipped a new feature for SN/06: TeleArms — RoboPlayground.
Users can now control and toggle between vision cameras for smoother teleoperation-in-simulation while completing challenges.
We still have a few private beta codes left. RT + comment if you want one. 🦾
We took our robotics hardware to @SolanaEvents AI Accelerate Day.
Live teleoperation and egocentric data were recorded — with good coffee, Rubik's cube fun, and a community that showed up. 👇
POV: @frodobots rover at @SolanaEvents Accelerate AI day — remote controlled + teleoperated live.
Every frame goes into scaling the largest open-source sidewalk navigation dataset on @huggingface.
Own one. Drive it to earn. Or build your own agent to control it with our SDK.