Notices

0 · Release schedule

The MARC 2026 website is live and registration is now open. You can read the competition overview, challenge, and key dates and register your team right now.

The developer resources (developer guide and starter kit) open on 2026-07-08 (12:00 UTC · 21:00 KST). We will announce it here and in the top banner as soon as they are ready.

1 · Offline judging runtime

The program you develop may not use commercial APIs (external AI APIs such as cloud LLMs). Scoring runs in a runtime with no external network access, so no external API calls or internet access are allowed during execution.

Build time is online. Bake model weights and dependencies into your image at build time (internet available then). At runtime, no downloads and no external API calls.

2 · Resources provided

Everything you need to take part is gathered here. The actual files — the developer guide, starter kit, and more — live on GitHub, and the links below take you straight to them.

Resource	What it is	Link
Developer guide	Environment setup, SDK usage, scoring, and troubleshooting — everything you need to develop.	Open the guide
Starter kit	One bundle with everything you need to build: · Practice simulation platform (Sejong campus digital twin, robot, sensors, ROS 2, sample problems, practice background chungmu) · Dataset generator · Manipulation training tool · Participant SDK (`marc-sdk`) · Demo (reference implementation) (See the Challenge page for details)	GitHub

3 · Third-party asset licenses

MARC uses third-party assets, including open-source software (OSS) and USD content. Their licenses and sources are acknowledged here.

NVIDIA Isaac Sim — the simulation platform. Under its license we do not redistribute prebuilt images; participants pull the base image under their own account and build locally. Pulling the base image requires an NVIDIA (NGC) account.
ROS 2 (Humble) — the standard interface for robot control and sensor communication.
Participant SDK (marc-sdk) — MIT license.
Background & character USD — the practice chungmu background and public assets (characters replaced with MakeHuman (CC0), etc.).

A consolidated list of licenses and attributions is provided in the starter kit’s NOTICES.md and the developer guide. Participants must respect the licenses of all bundled and downloaded assets.

4 · The competition background (playground) may change

The only competition background (playground) released to participants is the practice chungmu environment. The actual competition may run on a different background. This keeps teams from overfitting to one specific stage and prevents the real stage from being exposed in advance — so build your agent to generalize and work well in an environment it hasn’t seen before.