Fields a campaign might enter. Not a board of entries
These are the kinds of frontier work prize organizations already set. They are not open calls, not a ranking, and not Team XSO projects.
Six fields. Zero open calls.
Robotics
Field machines and physical systems a future campaign might have to build and test.
Climate
Earth-system problems where a prize sets the measurement and someone else judges the result.
Ocean
Marine sensing, materials, and operations. An illustrative field, not an open call.
Life sciences
Biological measurement and tools, and only where a prize's rules allow the work.
Scientific computing
Models, algorithms, and computational entries judged on evidence rather than on a demo.
The landscape Team XSO would scout
XPRIZE
Treated here as the flagship external ecosystem: large prizes, independently judged, aimed at consequential problems.
Scientific grand challenges
Competitions organized around a defined scientific result rather than around a product launch.
Public innovation prizes
Government and public-interest prizes with their own rules, timelines, and judges.
Open technical bounties
Open-science and independently funded bounties where the target is published and the evidence can be checked.
Examples, with the page they came from
| Program | Why it is listed | Relationship |
|---|---|---|
| XPRIZE | Flagship example of an external prize ecosystem. | Not a Team XSO project, partner, or approved entry plan. |
| ARC Prize | Example of an independently run technical prize outside Team XSO. | Not a Team XSO project, partner, or approved entry plan. |
| Vesuvius Challenge | Example of an open scientific bounty outside Team XSO. | Not a Team XSO project, partner, or approved entry plan. |
| NASA challenge programs | Example of public innovation challenges outside Team XSO. | Not a Team XSO project, partner, or approved entry plan. |