Summer is past, winter on the way. So it's time to announce the RDK Challenge 2026 Winter! ❄️🤖 Free to enter. Newbie-friendly. Roughly six weeks. And a path from "my first AI demo ran" to "I built a real robot." Three stages, built so nobody gets left behind: ⚡ Ignite — Power On Your AI Robot's Brain 🛠️ Build— Design Your Own Intelligent Robot 🚀 Launch — Bring Your Robot to Life What's waiting at the end: 🏆 $1,000 grand prize 🥈 TOP 3 RDK Advocators — $500 each 🎖️ Stage badges + exclusive community roles ... We've witnessed so many fabulous robot projects during the summer, now it's your turn to surprise the world. Check the GitHub repo to get all the info supporting you: github.com/D-Robotics/Roboti… #RDKChallenge #EdgeAI #Roboticst

🎃 Who gave the pumpkins a brain?!🧠 This Halloween, our pumpkins aren’t sitting quietly on the porch. They’re moving, sensing, and doing some rather suspicious robot things. Our community has been busy hacking pumpkins with RDK, and we have a feeling these creations are going to be a little more exciting than your average Halloween decoration.🤪 Join us for the Pumpkin Robot Show & Tell to see what our makers have cooked up! 📅 October 29 | 9:00 PM (GMT+8) ✏️ Register: luma.com/mt13rdgj #DRobotics #PumpkinRobot #Robotics #Halloween

Autonomous patrol. Real-time person detection. On-device visual feature matching. Brian brought all three together in his VLM Patrol Robot, built on RDK X5 for RDK Challenge Summer. Combining SLAM, @ultralytics YOLO11n, and InternVL2.5-1B on embedded hardware wasn't easy — but that's where the real engineering begins. ☕️ Grab a coffee, read Brian’s full story: en.d-robotics.cc/blog/the-ro… 🤔Have an idea you want to turn into a robot in the RDK Challenge Winter? Start with the hardware. If you're based in Southeast Asia, you can purchase an RDK X5 from our local distributor here: cytron.io/p-rdk-x5-8g #Robotics #RDKChallenge #Robotdev #DRobotics

📽️We’re going live today. Join us for D-Robotics Frontier #01: Uranus and explore how interactive world models can support long-horizon generation, multi-view simulation, and robot policy evaluation. If you're interested in #worldmodels, #robotlearning, or #embodiedAI, don't miss this session. 📅 October 15 | 8:00 PM GMT+8 Save your spot: us06web.zoom.us/j/8533418279…

🥗Instead of opening a calorie-tracking app at every meal, Shebin @coderscafetech built a dedicated AI calorie tracker with RDK X5. Using computer vision and on-device AI, it recognizes food and displays calorie counts and nutrition info — all processed locally. 🤔🤖 Curious what you could build with RDK X5? RDK Challenge Winter is open for registration. Bring your idea and give it a try. 🎥 youtu.be/Uv26d9vjNCk 📦 🇮🇳 Based in India? Get your RDK X5 through our local distributor: robu.in/brand/d-robotics/

💡Every robotics project starts with an idea. RDK Challenge Winter is a chance to take yours further. 📖We've put together the essential details to help you get started, including the participation rules and rewards. Whether this is your first RDK project or you're already experienced with robotics development, take a look at the guidelines, explore what's on offer, and start planning your build. Don't have an RDK X5 yet? You can get one through our official purchase page. en.d-robotics.cc/distributor We look forward to seeing what you build this Winter. #RDKChallenge #Robotics #DRobotics

The longer a robot acts, the more there is to predict. From one moment to the next, can a model keep generating what happens across multiple camera views — over an extended sequence of actions? That’s what Long-Horizon Generation in Uranus is designed to do. It enables multi-view video generation over long horizons, supporting robots as they plan and execute complex tasks in a learned world. #LongHorizonGeneration #Robotics #PhysicalAI

What happens when a robot takes an action? How will the objects move, and how will the environment respond? Instead of testing every idea on physical hardware, you can explore what happens next in a learned world — predicting how actions translate into motion, object interactions, and changes across multiple camera views. That’s action-controllable generation in Uranus, D-Robotics’ data-driven robot simulation platform. It lets you try out candidate policies in a learned world before they ever touch real hardware. 🧐Curious how it works under the hood? 🤗Join us for D-Robotics Frontier tech talk on October 15 to dive deeper into Uranus. ✏️Register here: luma.com/tmtu4uge #worldmodel #PhysicalAI #robotics #EmbodiedAI

😣Real-robot validation is costly and hard to reproduce. Classic simulators require laborious modeling — and still struggle with the sim-to-real gap. 🥳We’re building a different route. Meet Uranus — a data-driven, interactive simulation platform for robot development, powered by an Interactive World Model at its core. On October 15, we’re hosting a technical webinar to open up the full stack behind Uranus. ▶️ Curation and calibration recovery over 3,300 hours of real robot data ▶️ Causal training and distillation of a 1.3B model ▶️ The serving infrastructure that brings one inference step to 24 FPS ▶️ Measured long-horizon consistency, closed-loop policy evaluation, and cross-embodiment generalization ... Code, weights, and data are open-sourced. 📅 October 15th, 20:00 GMT+8 🎙️ Speaker: D-Robotics LM Tech Lead ✏️ Register: luma.com/tmtu4uge Join us to explore the third path for robot simulation to see how an Interactive World Model becomes an engineering-ready simulation platform — and where this new road for robot development can take us. #DRobotics #WorldModel #sim2real #EmbodiedAI

📢 RDK Challenge Winter kickoff is happening in 2 minutes. Jump in: us06web.zoom.us/j/8828510626…

RDK Challenge Winter kicks off tomorrow! 📅 October 8, 10:00 AM GMT-4 ✏️ Register: luma.com/yh25y9sa 🤩TOP creators from RDK Challenge Summer will join us as community mentors to share their experience, tips, and lessons from building with RDK. We’ll also introduce the Challenge, go through the key rules and details, and help you get ready for Winter. Haven’t registered yet? Don’t miss it. Looking forward to seeing you there! #RDKChallenge #Robotics #DRobotics

❄️ RDK Challenge Winter is coming. Before the building begins, let’s get everyone on the same page. Join our Online Kickoff on Oct 8 for: 🧩 Challenge intro & rules 📦 RDK X5 unboxing + setup demo 🎙️ Special guest mentors sharing their experience 💬 Live Q&A Got an idea? No idea yet? Either way, come hang out, get the details, and get ready to build. 👉 Register via the link or scan the QR code on the poster. luma.com/yh25y9sa #RDKChallenge #Robotics #EdgeAI

🎃 Hack a Pumpkin. Make it move. We’re launching Pumpkin Robot campaign — an open robotics project for makers and developers to turn an ordinary pumpkin into a moving, thinking, or otherwise unexpected robot. 🤖 Build it with RDK X5. Make it weird. Make it yours. 🔗 Details & guidelines: github.com/D-Robotics/RDK-Co… 📱 Scan the QR code on the poster to sign up. Let’s see what these pumpkins can do. 🎃🤖 #DRobotics #PumpkinRobot #Robotics #Halloween

🔥ROSCon Global 2026 — we made it, did YOU? 👀 Catch @DRoboticsDev at our partners’ booths: 📍 @AgilexRobotics Booth #48 📍 @LooperRobotics Booth SU-3 | Startup Alley RDK, #ROS 2, #Robotics, #EmbodiedAI...— come talk to us, we're so ready 🤙 #ROSCon2026

🥳ROSCon Global 2026 is really around the corner! See you tomorrow! #ROSCon #DRobotics #EmbodiedAI

Built by YoshiBoiy's team @HackTheNorth , Lloyd brings AI into the world of insurance, tackling a very different kind of real-world challenge. The project combines AI-assisted underwriting, risk analysis, evidence, investigation, and privacy-aware document processing into one workflow. The RDK X5 performs local OCR, sensitive-field detection, redaction, and tokenization. Check the project on @devpost : devpost.com/software/fihai?_… Github: github.com/YoshiBoiy/lloyd #DRobotics #RDK #HackTheNorth #AI #Robotics

Powered by D-Robotics RDK dev kit, builders at @HackTheNorth created projects just in 36 hours! Meet Goostriever, a voice-controlled retrieval robot built by @darksorceror_ team. 💬“Bring me my bottle.” 🤖So they built a robot that can actually do it. Give it a command. It identifies the right object, plans a route around the room, drives over, picks it up, and brings it back. Under the hood: vision, navigation, an LLM planner, and an RDK S100 running ACT inference locally for the grasping action. Check the project on @devpost :devpost.com/software/robot-p… For more details:github.com/dark-sorceror/hac… #HTN2026 #DRobotics #EmbodiedAI #Robotics