Base positions the AI Agent and Robot as the next frontier of technology, calling on developers to join.

On March 5th, Virtuals Protocol—the Base Ecological AI Agent Platform—announced the launch of **Base Batches 003: Robotics**, a project led by Virtuals to advance AI agents in the robotics field. Virtuals officials noted the team has been building infrastructure to let AI agents perform real-world work, earn compensation, and generate compound interest via an open marketplace. The next technological frontier? Embodied artificial intelligence. While robot technology is highly capable, it currently lacks a structural integration of identity, permissions, and payments to scale beyond closed deployments. Moving forward, Base will enable on-chain builders to create robot agents, manage fleet operations, build robot data pipelines, or design workflows connecting robots to agents via ACP. Applications for "Base Batches 003: Robotics" are now open. Successful participants will receive mentorship, up to $50,000 in funding, and a path to the San Francisco Demo Day. Base officials retweeted the project, calling robot-autonomous agent combinations "one of the most exciting frontiers in technology."