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AI lab hackathons, 2025 to now

What got built, and what won.

Every submission from hackathons run by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta and the other big labs, with the winners marked and the code linked.

projects
31,980
hackathons
93
award winners
585
inferred from GitHub
433
1st Place

Project

Project: GeminiSpace Track: Gemini in Hard Tech(Option 2) The Problem: Building environmental maps for mobile robots in factories using traditional SLAM is time-consuming, rigid, and computationally expensive.

robotics/hardwarevision
1st Place

CAD Sandboxes

This project provides CAD sandboxes to Astra via a VM, wraps Fusion with a HTTP interface and realtime stream of the workspace state.

dev toolsrobotics/hardware
2nd Place

SkyStudio

SkyStudio: AI-Powered Autonomous Drone Volumetric Sports Capture Traditional sports broadcasting is constrained by fixed cameras and static viewpoints.

robotics/hardwarevision

Rohan R, Mrunmayee Rane

2nd Place

Morf

Morf helps students, makers, and robotics teams turn ideas into interactive 3D assemblies through conversation.

educationrobotics/hardware

Aradhya Mishra, Kavish Poddar, Shiva narayana raju Birudaraju

2nd Place

Sky Guardian

Our technology has reached the point where society needs to stop putting human lives at risk and start leveraging the tools around us.

robotics/hardwarevisionvoice

Armin Foroughi, Nicolas Dos Santos, Alex Battikha +1

Winners

SixthSense: Haptic Vision for the Blind

An affordable wearable that turns a phone's camera into directional belt buzzes, guiding blind and low-vision users around obstacles fully on-device with no internet, at a fraction of the cost of the smart canes and glasses people are priced out of.

accessibilityvisionrobotics/hardware
Honorable Mentions

BatteryForgeAI

Multi-agent battery intelligence. Specialized AI for vision-based defect detection, charging optimization, and fleet safety to maximize battery lifecycle and performance.

robotics/hardwarescience

Kumari Surya Remanan, shankar rajan

Best for UCSC

HydroClawNics

Hydroclawnics is an autonomous AI agent that manages a hydroponic farm, constantly monitoring pods across temperature, pH, EC, humidity, water levels, etc, then taking corrective action in real time.

agentsrobotics/hardware

Alexander Hamilton, Lucas Peterson, Carmen Tan

Community Favorite

ZenDrive

IoT and Google Maps Integrated Cognitive Fatigue Detection Using EMG Signals and Computer Vision.

healthrobotics/hardware

Rishika Singh, Yuvika Gupta, Arshil

The Taskmaster

Latch

Gemini evolves verified observers on five FPGAs for instruments producing up to 6.5 Tb/s. Blind tests matched three spacecraft; Latch also preserved a Fermi event NASA’s systems missed.

sciencerobotics/hardware
Honorable Mention

Nimbus

Using Google Maps to plan mission routes for autonomous hovercrafts that deliver medical supplies.

robotics/hardwarehealth

Leo Cheung, Sarthak Gupta, Ben Smith

Finalist

BEAMTEAM

BEAMTEAM is a self-driving optical engineering system that turns a published figure into a buildable, verified laser-optics bench in under three minutes.

sciencerobotics/hardware