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Earth-Mars latency makes direct control impossible.

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Core trick

Gemini plans natural-language commands into actions for a simulated Unitree Go2 in physics, then reports results back in first person.

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robotics/hardwareagents

Description

Earth-Mars latency makes direct control impossible. You can't pilot the robot — you can only give it orders and wait. The game is in the prompt: vague orders fail, precise orders succeed. Mars Prompt Arena is a competitive training ground for finding the world's best remote robot operators. Players take on the role of Mission Control on Earth, sending natural-language commands to CANIS-1 — an autonomous robot dog stranded on the Martian surface. There's no joystick. No WASD. Just your words, an AI brain, and a ticking clock. The robot runs on Gemini — it reads your prompts, plans its actions, executes them in a physics simulation, and reports back in first person like an astronaut on comms. Your job is to phrase commands that make it do the right thing.
jacopopper/mars-prompt-arena★ 00 forksPythonCreated Mar 14, 2026 · last push Mar 14, 2026

README excerpt

<p align="center">
  <img src="assets/banner.png" alt="Mars Prompt Arena — A robot dog on the surface of Mars" width="100%"/>
</p>

<h1 align="center">🔴 Mars Prompt Arena</h1>

<p align="center">
  <strong>The global platform for mastering remote robot control through natural language.</strong><br/>
  Command a Unitree Go2 robot dog on Mars. Write prompts. Complete missions. Climb the leaderboard.
</p>

<p align="center">
  <a href="#-quickstart"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Get_Started-red?style=for-the-badge&logo=rocket&logoColor=white" alt="Get Started"/></a>
  <a href="#-missions"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/3_Missions-orange?style=for-the-badge&logo=target&logoColor=white" alt="Missions"/></a>
  <a href="#-how-it-works"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Gemini_Powered-blue?style=for-the-badge&logo=google&logoColor=white" alt="Gemini Powered"/></a>
</p>

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## 🌌 The Premise

> *Earth-Mars latency makes direct control impossible.*
> *You can't pilot the robot — you can only give it orders and wait.*
> *The game is in the prompt: vague orders fail, precise orders succeed.*

**Mars Prompt Arena** is a competitive training ground for finding the world's best remote robot operators. Players take on the role of **Mission Control on Earth**, sending natural-language commands to **CANIS-1** — an autonomous robot dog stranded on the Martian surface.

There's no joystick. No WASD. Just your words, an AI brain, and a ticking clock.

The robot runs on **[G

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