# Marsss Madnesss

- **Event:** [Gemini 3 Paris Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/gemini-3-paris-hackathon)
- **When:** Sat, Mar 14 at 9:00 AM – 10:00 PM (GMT+1)
- **Where:** Location TBA
- **Team:** [Jacopo Dardini](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/jacopopper), [Davide Benedetti Valentini](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/davideblesse)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/jacopopper/mars-prompt-arena
- **Demo video:** https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rk0e1sTWyy80mme6cNpZcsABjLIQOXj-/view?usp=sharing
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/gemini-3-paris-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/gemini-3-paris-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/31

Earth-Mars latency makes direct control impossible. You can't pilot the robot — you can only give it orders and wait. The game is in the prompt: vague orders fail, precise orders succeed.

Mars Prompt Arena is a competitive training ground for finding the world's best remote robot operators. Players take on the role of Mission Control on Earth, sending natural-language commands to CANIS-1 — an autonomous robot dog stranded on the Martian surface.

There's no joystick. No WASD. Just your words, an AI brain, and a ticking clock.

The robot runs on Gemini — it reads your prompts, plans its actions, executes them in a physics simulation, and reports back in first person like an astronaut on comms. Your job is to phrase commands that make it do the right thing.

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