AMD Open Robotics Hackathon leveraging LeRobot, ROCm, and MI300X GPUs – Tokyo and Paris 2025

AI Impact Summary

AMD, Hugging Face, and Data Monsters are hosting two in-person robotics hackathons, with Tokyo on 2025-12-05 to 2025-12-07 and Paris on 2025-12-12 to 2025-12-14. Teams will develop on the LeRobot development environment using AMD hardware (Ryzen AI laptops, Instinct MI300X GPUs) and the ROCm stack, with PyTorch among the recommended tools. This establishes a concrete on-site testbed for edge AI robotics workloads and creates a tangible path for talent recruitment and enterprise partnerships around AMD robotics hardware.