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Draft:Hitch Open

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Hitch Open is an artificial intelligence competition series involving autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots. The series began in China in 2025 with the Hitch Open World AI Championships, a competition in which university teams developed autonomous-driving software.[1] In 2026, it added the Hitch Open Ping-Pong Embodied AI Challenge (HOPE AI Challenge), an autonomous humanoid-robot table-tennis competition included in the second World Humanoid Robot Games.[2]

The Intelligent Racing Foundation initiated the competitions. Rednet's coverage of the 2026 season launch identified Tang Minqin (Crystal Tang) and Allen Y. Yang as Hitch Open's co-founders.[3]

Autonomous-vehicle competition

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The 2025 championship began in April and used simulation-based qualifying rounds before progressing to tests with full-size vehicles. Seven university teams qualified for the road stage, and the teams used a common PIX Moving vehicle chassis so that the event principally compared their autonomous-driving systems.[4]

The final was held on 18 October 2025 on the 10.77-kilometre road through Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie, which rises from approximately 200 to 1,300 metres in elevation and contains 99 bends.[4] Tsinghua University's Extreme Racing team won with a time of 16 minutes 10.838 seconds; Hunan University and Jilin University placed second and third, respectively.[4][5] Rain left standing water on the road during the final. Tsinghua did not make another run, and its fastest previously recorded time was used for the result.[4]

At the conclusion of the competition, the organizers announced that a dataset of driving in fog, tunnels, steep gradients and sharp curves would be made available without charge to companies and research institutions.[4]

Humanoid-robot table tennis

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The HOPE AI Challenge was initiated in 2026 and selected as a competition at the second World Humanoid Robot Games, held at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing from 22 to 26 August.[2][6] Reporting before the event described the Hitch Open table-tennis contest as testing visual perception, fine control and whole-body coordination.[6]

The matches were fully autonomous, with the robots making their own decisions rather than being controlled remotely.[7] Teams used the same AgiBot Expedition A3 humanoid platform, placing the competitive emphasis on perception, trajectory prediction, decision-making and whole-body control.[8]

On 25 August, the joint Peking University–Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence team defeated the University of Hong Kong SMASH team 2–0 in the final.[8][9] The joint Shanghai Jiao Tong University–Shanghai Innovation Institute team placed third.[10]

Public repositories

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As of August 2026, the Hitch Open GitHub organization listed six public repositories.[11] Four were original repositories: HOPE contains training, planning, simulation, deployment and rulebook material for humanoid-robot table tennis;[12] HitchPlay connects an Android speech interface and a locally running language model to compatible ROS 2 rover vehicles;[13] Hitch Sensor Dome combines a 3D-printable vehicle-roof sensor mount with ROS 2 recording, clock-synchronization, mapping and localization software;[14] and build_AWSIM_map converts ROS 2 sensor recordings into point-cloud and Lanelet2 maps for Autoware and track meshes for AWSIM.[15] As of August 2026, the Hitch Open GitHub organization listed six public repositories.[11]

The organization also hosted two forks. HamoLLM, forked from augcog/tai, contains edge language-model and retrieval-augmented generation software;[16] Hitch-Academy, forked from learnwithallen/ROAR-Academy, contains introductory course material on Python, NumPy, gradient descent and deep neural networks.[17]

  • HOPE — An original repository containing training, planning, simulation, deployment and rulebook material for humanoid-robot table tennis.[12]
  • HitchPlay — An original repository connecting an Android speech interface and a locally running language model to compatible ROS 2 rover vehicles.[13]
  • Hitch Sensor Dome — An original repository combining a 3D-printable vehicle-roof sensor mount with ROS 2 recording, clock-synchronization, mapping and localization software.[14]
  • build_AWSIM_map — An original repository that converts ROS 2 sensor recordings into point-cloud and Lanelet2 maps for Autoware and track meshes for AWSIM.[15]
  • HamoLLM — A fork of augcog/tai containing edge language-model and retrieval-augmented generation software.[16]
  • Hitch-Academy — A fork of learnwithallen/ROAR-Academy containing introductory course material on Python, NumPy, gradient descent and deep neural networks.[17]

References

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  1. ↑ Zhao, Lei (4 July 2025). 首届Hitch Open世界AI竞速锦标赛中国揭幕 [First Hitch Open World AI Championships opens in China]. China Daily (in Chinese). Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  2. 1 2 顶尖AI乒乓球战队8月聚首“冰丝带”，参加第二届世界人形机器人运动会 [Leading AI table-tennis teams to gather at the Ice Ribbon for the second World Humanoid Robot Games]. Xinhuanet (in Chinese). 17 June 2026. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  3. ↑ 探索物理智能的边界：HitchOpen 2026赛季于上海F1赛场正式启航 [Exploring the boundaries of physical intelligence: Hitch Open's 2026 season launches at the Shanghai F1 circuit]. Rednet (in Chinese). 17 March 2026. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 清華大学が優勝　AI自動運転車、張家界「99のカーブ」に挑戦 [Tsinghua University wins as AI self-driving cars take on Zhangjiajie's 99 bends]. Science Portal China (in Japanese). Japan Science and Technology Agency. 24 October 2025. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  5. ↑ He, Chun; Zhang, Xiaomin (19 October 2025). "Seven university teams compete in AI championships". China Daily. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  6. 1 2 Li, Bo (18 August 2026). 机甲战队集结“冰丝带” 赛事规模超越首届 [Robot teams assemble at the Ice Ribbon as event exceeds the scale of its first edition]. People's Daily Online (in Chinese). Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  7. ↑ Wu, Tingting; Guo, Yanbing (25 August 2026). 专访机器人乒乓球冠军队：能打300回合，自主选择正反手挥拍 [Interview with the champion robot table-tennis team: 300-rally capability and autonomous forehand–backhand selection]. The Beijing News (in Chinese). Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  8. 1 2 Guo, Hanlin; Su, Yurun; Ma, Xiaofang (25 August 2026). 機器人乒乓球決賽打響　香港大學SMASH戰隊收穫銀牌 [Robot table-tennis final held; University of Hong Kong SMASH team wins silver]. Wen Wei Po (in Chinese). Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  9. ↑ Deng, Fangjia; Zhao, Xiaosong; Wang, Haixin (25 August 2026). 稳字当头！助他们勇夺人形机器人运动会乒乓球冠军 [Stability first: how they won the humanoid robot games table-tennis championship]. Beijing Daily (in Chinese). Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  10. ↑ 第二届世界人形机器人运动会乒乓球小组赛成绩公告 [Second World Humanoid Robot Games table-tennis results announcement] (PDF). World Humanoid Robot Games (in Chinese). 25 August 2026. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  11. 1 2 "Hitch Open repositories". GitHub. Hitch Open. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  12. 1 2 "HOPE: Hitch Open Ping-Pong Embodied AI Challenge". GitHub. Hitch Open. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  13. 1 2 "HitchPlay". GitHub. Hitch Open. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  14. 1 2 "Hitch Sensor Dome". GitHub. Hitch Open. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  15. 1 2 "build_AWSIM_map". GitHub. Hitch Open. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  16. 1 2 "HamoLLM". GitHub. Hitch Open. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  17. 1 2 "Hitch-Academy". GitHub. Hitch Open. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
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