Smiling Buddha Open Research
Community-run · Open

Community.

Founding Research Partners, Individual Contributors, working groups, and the broader physical-AI research community. Named recognition. Open governance.

Founding Research Partners

Institutional cohort · First fourteen in discussion

Institutions — research labs, universities, industrial research groups — that shape the first cohort of Smiling Buddha datasets, benchmarks, and reproducibility standards. Named as they enroll. Every contribution credited.

What partners contribute

Data · protocols · review

Edge case contributions, benchmark protocol drafting, RFC review, cross-lab reproducibility validation.

What partners get

Named recognition · governance seat

Founding Partner status on the About page, a working-group governance seat, and early access to preview corpora.

How to apply

Institutional conversation

Discussion with the founding cohort begins with an institutional email introducing your lab, area, and intended contribution.

Apply as founding partner
Individual Contributors

Distributed community

Freelancers, students, PhD candidates, working professionals, engineers between roles, hobbyists, indie developers — the Edge Case Library is being built by a distributed community. Named recognition. Remote-first. Every contribution credited.

Join the community
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