Agents in the Wild Build Sprint

This is the signup for the build sprint. Kickoff Day is Sat 13th June.
A two-week build sprint for autonomy in the physical world ending with a demo night at LocalGlobe.
Bored of seeing another AI B2B SaaS? Time to send your agents Into the Wild.
50 builders.
£2k+ prize pool.
2 weeks to build autonomous systems that interact with the physical world.
This is for the hardware builders, tinkerers and AI engineers looking to get to grips with the world of atoms.
Timeline
13.06 - Kickoff Day @ Blue Garage
21.06 - Check In Day @ Blue Garage
28.06 - Project submission deadline
07.07 - Demo Night @ LocalGlobe

Kickoff Day
We've got raspberry pis, electronics lab, 3D printers and mentors on hand to get you on your way.
Then you've got 2 weeks to build your hardware, deploy in the real world and write up some learnings.
Participation in the demo competition is possible without attending the kickoff day. Please sign up anyway.

The Rules
Build a contained system that perceives something in its real environment, makes a decision nobody pre-programmed, and takes an action that matters.
A few of the shapes this could take:
A Pi watching an office, killing the lights when nobody's there
A wildlife camera that decides when to move and what to capture
A plant monitor that escalates only when something actually matters
A bin that navigates the office, taking direction from a fixed camera overhead
A conversational agent embedded in a real social setting, adapting to what it hears
An arm, a robot, a drone — pushing further on something you've already started
Start fresh, or take an existing project somewhere it hasn't been.

How we judge
Four criteria, equally weighted.
Innovation. Is the idea novel, inspired, weird in the right way? Impact. Is this a real, hard, or civilisational problem worth taking on?
Progress. What did you actually achieve in two weeks? Deployment. Did you get the system out of the lab and into the world?

A measured project that ships end-to-end will usually beat a wildly ambitious one that doesn't. Not always. Surprise us.

The rhythm
Day 0 — Kickoff at Blue Garage, Lewisham. Meet other builders, see the kit, scope your project, find collaborators.
Days 1–7 — Build. Get a deployable v0 working. Don't polish. Days 7–13 — Deploy. Put it in the wild. Watch it break. Iterate. Day 14 — Submit. A short video and a written reflection. Slides also fine.
Demo Night, 7th July. Top five projects present live to win the prize pool

What we provide
Kickoff at Blue Garage with loan equipment (Raspberry Pis, cameras), 3D printers, electronics facilities, and mentors on hand. Continued access throughout the sprint. Limited budget for specific components if you need them.

FAQ
Do I have to deploy on hardware? Yes, broadly. We'll accept submissions that don't quite break earth, but we expect the winning projects to successfully interact with the physical world.
Does it have to be fully offline? No. Hybrid is fine, and cloud inference is necessary for many projects. Local-first preserves privacy and unlocks environments where you can't rely on internet access.
Can I build on OpenClaw or other existing robotics frameworks? You can. But consider if you can be more innovative. Why not start with a pi harness and build just the features you need — including appropriate guardrails?
Can I work on my existing project? Yes, very much encouraged — but you'll be judged specifically on progress during the two weeks. Maybe bring someone new from the hack on board to help push it forward.
How much time should I spend on this? Up to you. We've intentionally given you two weeks rather than a single weekend so you have room to ideate, then deploy. We don't expect you to work on this every day.
What does the submission look like? A short video and a written reflection — what you set out to do, what you learned. Slides or notes are fine. The top five present at Demo Night - live demos preferred.