what's BitRobot Network?
BitRobot Network is a decentralized infrastructure platform bridging robotics and cryptocurrency to accelerate the development of physical AI. It addresses the significant data gap in robotics AI by enabling global contributors to collect, share, and monetize real-world interaction data through crypto incentives. This collective approach contrasts with traditional siloed efforts, fostering open collaboration for model training, evaluation, and deployment. The network facilitates key components like data collection for robot learning, geographic mapping via RTK and onchain tools, and commerce for robotic ecosystems. By integrating blockchain, it coordinates decentralized compute resources and incentivizes participation in building foundational layers for embodied AI. Partnerships with projects in geospatial data and AI agents highlight its role in creating interoperable rails for the physical world. Overall, BitRobot Network promotes open-source robotics over closed systems, providing resources such as compute access and evaluation frameworks to lower barriers for builders in the space.
BitRobot Network sponsors May 2026 "Super Kart: Miami Grand Prix" event with major partners.
Participates as a sponsor in the Accelerate Closing Event "Super Kart: Miami Grand Prix" scheduled for May 2026, alongside Solflare, Filecoin, Alchemy, and Brave Browser.
Uses io.net's GPU infrastructure, achieving up to 92% cost savings compared to AWS cloud GPU services.
Launched a private beta with early access available through waitlist and Discord.
Solana co-founder Raj Gokal publicly confirms the project deploys robots globally and incentivizes people with tokens to deploy them for training data collection.
The project plans to integrate PhD AI/ML researchers into subnets to solve complex problems for embodied AI.
The project's video becomes the most viral content from Solana Breakpoint conference.
A live event featuring Natasha Ghoskins fighting a robot in Hot Ones format airs today at noon ET.
Amanda0x represents the project as a featured guest at Solana Breakpoint conference today.
Live robot boxing event is underway at Robot Arena with crowds gathering to watch matches and pilot robots.
Virtuals Protocol launches Subnet 5 (SeeSaw) on the network and partners with OpenMind AGI to enable robots to think, learn, and work collaboratively.
BitRobot Network will showcase humanoid boxing matches at the upcoming Solana Breakpoint conference.
MessariCrypto provides coverage highlighting the project's focus on unlocking real-world robotics data at scale through video, teleoperation, and simulation.
Dozens of new subnets are getting ready to launch beyond the existing ones. The project's founder created IPFS and founded Filecoin.
Announces partnership with UnitreeRobotics and launches Direct Body Control v1 for UFB (Ultimate Fighting Bots), featuring live humanoid boxing matches debuting November 15.
BitRobot Network builds the world's open robotics lab with researchers from Princeton, NYU, and Stanford.
Subnet 05: SeeSaw accumulates over 25,000 real-world robot training tasks uploaded since launch.
Participates in Solana on Wall Street event alongside other Renaud Partners portfolio companies.
Featured on Renaud Partners' October hotlist as a project they are backing and tracking.
Launches Virtuals as Subnet 5 and Virtuals SeeSaw on iOS, introducing Virtuals Robotics. Partners with Virtuals Protocol for crowdsourced, verified egocentric task data.
VIRTUAL ships decentralized scale AI version with BitRobot Network.
Virtuals_io plans to launch an egocentric video subnet on the network for open robotics research and development.
Raised $8M from Protocol, Fabric, Solana, and Sfermion, and featured as a pre-TGE project on KaitoAI's newly launched CT Robotics leaderboard.
ET Fuji subnet launches with UC Berkeley partnership and 20,000 FBP weekly rewards for data contributors.
ET_Fugi joins as first subnet partner, enabling human-input data generation for Embodied AI training.
Team expansion initiative launches with openings for three key leadership roles in engineering, product, and marketing.
New COO joins the team, signaling expansion of executive leadership.