Contribute code, edge cases, benchmarks, or reviews. Read, discuss, subscribe. Smiling Buddha is community-run and community-owned.
Source code, issues, pull requests. Contribute datasets, benchmarks, converters, and reference baselines.
Real-time conversation with the community, maintainers, and researchers. Public channels for each research area.
Monthly digest of research updates, new datasets, benchmark results, and community highlights. Low volume, high signal.
Everything you need to make your first contribution — code, dataset, benchmark, or review. Written for both first-time and experienced open-source contributors.
Rotating research working groups focused on specific problems: perception, planning, safety, sim-to-real transfer, reproducibility.
Research labs, universities, and non-profits collaborating on datasets, benchmarks, and reproducibility. For institutional-level engagement.
Smiling Buddha is a community-run open research initiative. Major decisions — new benchmarks, dataset schemas, breaking API changes — go through a public RFC process on GitHub. Working-group leads rotate. Nothing behind closed doors.
