Partners & Supporters

▸ The Company

DeepCybo (深度机智) is an embodied-AI foundation-model company working at the frontier of physical AI — building world models and vision-language-action (VLA) systems that let robots perceive, remember, and act with human-like coherence.

▸ Proven at the Frontier

• 🏆 WorldArena world-model benchmark — champion. DeepCybo's Z-WM world model ranks #1 on Track 2 (Data Engine) with a score of 88.5 — a 30.5-point lead over the previous best — and also tops Track 1 at 64.96.
• ⚡ IntentVLA — record-setting manipulation. Its memory-augmented VLA model leads the SimplerEnv (72.9%), LIBERO-Long (97.4%) and RoboCasa (57.0%) leaderboards, and delivers a 4× success-rate gain on the AliasBench intent-confusion benchmark it open-sourced.
• 📄 Open research. Core methods are published openly: STARRY ↗, EA-WM ↗, IntentVLA ↗.

▸ Why This Matters for Students

Hands-on work with frontier humanoid robotics has long been out of reach for most secondary-school students. Prime Lite is built to change that — an affordable, classroom-ready platform that lets the next generation explore the core technologies of humanoid robotics, inside a real international Olympiad.

▸ The Company

Hire Intelligence (Hire Intelligence Asia Pacific) is Australia's largest technology-rental fleet, established in 1992 — more than three decades equipping corporate, government, education and major-event clients with short-term IT and AV hardware. A business-to-business specialist, it operates local offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, the Gold Coast, Canberra and Adelaide, backed by a guaranteed 20-minute technical-support response.

▸ What They Provide for ICOA 2026

• 💻 Competition terminals. Laptops, desktops, workstations and tablets, imaged to a single standard ICOA spec so every contestant works on identical hardware.
• 🖥️ Displays & AV. Projectors, large-format LED walls, screens and audio for the opening, daily briefings and live scoreboards.
• 🎫 Event technology. On-site registration systems, check-in kiosks and signage for delegations arriving from around the world.
• 🛠️ Turnkey setup & support. Full exam-room build-out, flexible delivery and pickup, and on-site engineers across every competition day.

▸ Why This Matters for Students

A fair Olympiad demands that hardware never decides the result. By supplying a single, identically configured device standard for every contestant — and the AV and event systems around it — Hire Intelligence lets the ICOA Scientific Committee guarantee a level playing field, where the only variable that counts is the contestant's skill.

▸ The Company

IRTC is the market pioneer of Unitree Robotics in Australia, introducing cutting-edge embodied-robotics technology to the Australian market. Operating from North Ryde, NSW with local stock and rapid delivery, IRTC is a Unitree market-expansion partner across the country — supplying the full range from consumer and industrial quadrupeds to full-size humanoid robots.

▸ The Opening-Ceremony Showcase

• 🤖 Live robot performance. A choreographed Unitree robot showcase to open ICOA 2026 in front of delegations from around the world.
• 🐾 Quadruped robots. The Unitree Go2 — the benchmark consumer-grade quadruped — alongside industrial-grade models.
• 🚶 Full-size humanoids. Including China's first full-size running humanoid (180 cm, 3.3 m/s) and the G1 AI-avatar agent.
• 🇦🇺 Local support. Australian stock with delivery in as little as 24 hours.

▸ Why This Matters for Students

Most students never see frontier embodied robotics up close. IRTC's live showcase puts state-of-the-art Unitree humanoid and quadruped robots in the room — a tangible reminder that the AI-security skills tested at ICOA increasingly govern machines that move, sense and act in the physical world.