We launched Odyssey and Botcamp at Automate 2026

At Automate 2026 in Chicago, we unveiled two launches aimed at the hardest problem in Physical AI: getting cognitive robots out of the lab and onto the ground floor. Odyssey, an open-source framework for defining, running, and benchmarking robot training missions, and Botcamp, a hybrid, multi-week, cohort-based accelerator on the Lovell AI Platform, give builders a shared language for missions and a structured path for shipping robots that actually work in the real world.

Physical AI is moving fast, but builders are still stuck stitching together brittle scripts, one-off demos, and isolated training runs. Odyssey introduces a common, hardware-agnostic way to describe what a robot is supposed to do — the mission — and to evaluate whether it actually did it. Botcamp wraps that framework in a guided, peer-driven curriculum so teams don't have to figure it out alone.

"Odyssey is the missing layer for Physical AI," said Jeanine Banks, CEO of Lovell AI. "Until now, every team has been inventing their own definition of a mission, their own way to run it, their own way to grade it. By open-sourcing Odyssey under Apache-2.0, we're giving the entire industry a shared foundation — so the next generation of cognitive robots can be built, compared, and trusted on common ground."

Odyssey is an open-source framework for defining, running, and benchmarking robot training missions. It is hardware-agnostic, Edge-agnostic, and released under Apache-2.0 so any team — research lab, integrator, or OEM — can adopt it without lock-in. Every mission in Odyssey is organized around three primitives: Shape, Robot, and Lifecycle.

Shape is what the mission is: the goal, constraints, and success criteria. Robot is what the robot is: embodiment, skills, and capabilities. Lifecycle is how the mission is executed, from sim to real, with benchmarks the whole way. Developers can explore the framework, read the spec, and start contributing today at https://odyssey.dev/.

"Shipping a robot isn't just a software problem — it's a human problem," said Eugene Banks, Co-founder of Lovell AI. "Builders need other builders. Botcamp is the cohort, the curriculum, and the finish line we wish we'd had when we started. You walk in with an idea; you graduate with a robot ready for the ground floor."

Botcamp is a hybrid, multi-week, cohort-based accelerator where you and other builders take your robots through a guided curriculum together — from brain design to a live Demo Day where your robot shows what it's learned. Hosted on the Lovell AI Platform, it supports 100+ embodiments and follows a four-stage path: Brain Design & Agent Skills, Simulation in the Playground, Training & Evaluation, and Demo Day.

Cohort members get free credit hours on the Lovell AI Platform, mentorship from working roboticists, ecosystem access through Lovell AI partners, and a live Demo Day graduation. Applications for the inaugural cohort are open now. Builders can apply by completing the Botcamp application form at https://lovell.ai/botcamp.

Odyssey is available today at https://odyssey.dev/. Botcamp applications for the inaugural cohort are open at https://lovell.ai/botcamp. If you're at Automate 2026, stop by Booth #1788 in Chicago and say hello.