RAGE INDUSTRIES / OPEN CONTROL CHALLENGE
One motor. A chain of bad ideas.
How many can your controller keep upright?
A playground for humans. A proving ground for controllers.
Soundtrack: Elton John · I’m Still Standing ↗
Telemetry replay without music ↗ · Original evidence video ↗ · Edit provenance ↗
01 / THE OPEN REGISTRY
Every result has a rulebook, a frozen controller, and receipts. Verification labels say who checked what. You can inspect every entry.
Currently registering the published uniform-chain task. Results are grouped by exact protocol; link counts alone do not establish comparability or priority.
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PREVIOUS PUBLIC MILESTONE / 02 OCT 2026, 10:41:20 UTC
Published a canonical fourteen-link release reporting 141 / 141 reserved passes and an 8.16s minimum upright hold. His release and task are the foundation for the matched fifteen- and sixteen-link campaigns.
Author-published evidence · Historical import · No submission or endorsement implied. This source review did not rerun his controller.
Author-attested: the entrant published the evidence, including any checks they ran themselves.
Evidence reviewed: a named reviewer examined the frozen artifacts; their review is linked.
Third-party reproduced: a declared independent party reran the exact protocol and published its own evidence.
Passing the registry validator checks the record’s consistency. It does not run the controller or prove a world first.
02 / YOUR TURN, HUMAN
You get one motor. Gravity gets everything else. Have a go, then imagine fifteen more joints.
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03 / SAME GAME. SAME RULES.
A chain can look impressive while solving a different problem. The exact model, reset, score, and evaluation procedure travel with every result.
Total chain length
1 kg chain + 1 kg cart
One cart actuator
16 passive hinges
Continuous upright hold
All angles strictly < 0.15 rad
Complete native episode
Stay inside ±3 m throughout
CANONICAL SIXTEEN / V1
MuJoCo 3.3.5, binary64, RK4. Four 5 ms substeps per command. Score wrapped cumulative absolute angles after each command: 250 consecutive upright samples at 50 Hz. The live plant gets one initialization.
Pass exact calibration, disjoint noisy development sets of 20 and 100, then freeze. The unchanged release must pass all 141 reserved episodes, including the held-out video.
Native-model planning and full-state feedback are allowed. Wall-clock cost and runtime changes must be disclosed. This is a simulation benchmark.
Read the exact protocol Based on Corben Sorenson’s published task ↗04 / STANDING ON SHOULDERS
Credit is part of the experiment. Kache and Corben made the problem worth chasing. Their public work belongs in the story, with the original context attached.
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Historical milestones are attributed claims, not automatically qualified under this registry’s exact protocol. Missing a person or an earlier result? Bring the source. We’ll add the credit ↗
05 / THE NEXT ROW IS YOURS
Humans, AI agents, research teams, weekend obsessives. Publish your controller and evidence. Keep the failures. Let someone else check your work.