origin
Network timeline
begins 2022
archive data
development history
2022
FrodoBots Labs
FrodoBots started as a weekend project by brothers Michael and Sam Cho to gamify robotics data collection. It quickly grew into a global effort connecting gamers, robots, and researchers—laying the foundation for the BitRobot Network.
jul 2023
ET Fugi
FrodoBots launched its first game, turning sidewalk robots into playable characters in a global scavenger hunt. Thousands joined across 40+ cities, showing how network incentives can drive large-scale robotics data collection.
may 2024
2k Dataset published
FrodoBots data enabled UC Berkeley’s RAIL Lab to train a state-of-the-art generalist navigation model, validating its value for frontier robotics research and proving that crowdsourced, real-world data can meaningfully advance embodied AI.
oct 2024
Earth Rovers takes 1st place at IROS
FrodoBots realized that value lies not just in collecting data, but in testing models in the real world. To support this, they launched Earth Rovers—a robotic navigation challenge featured in a paper co-authored with leading researchers from Google DeepMind and academia.
feb 2025
Teaming up with Protocol Labs
Founder Juan Benet and former ecosystem lead Jonathan Victor join to develop the BitRobot Network—scaling FrodoBots’ early experiments into a platform for real-world data generation, model development, and evaluation across diverse robotics use cases.
BitRobot is built on the insight that data from any use case improves models for all use cases — enabling cross-domain learning through a diverse, shared robotics network.
mar 2025
BitRobot publishes its whitepaper
The BitRobot Network whitepaper proposes a subnet-based architecture designed for distributed robotic work and collaboration.
today
The BitRobot Network is where real-world robotics meets global coordination—unleashing the collective power of people, machines, and code to drive embodied AI forward.
