Open measurement
All benchmarks must be reproducible. Hidden methodologies don't advance the field.
About HMEComp
Efficiency is the ultimate engineering constraint. HMEComp exists to push builders toward systems that rival the most energy-efficient machine we know — the human body.
The Human Mechanical Efficiency Competition is an open engineering competition organized by AWFixer Church Group, AWFixer LLC, and Nerds Run LLC, with support from corporate sponsors. We challenge participants to design and measure systems whose mechanical energy efficiency approaches human performance.
Why humans? Because biology solved the efficiency problem long before silicon or steel. A person can walk for hours on a few hundred calories, think on twenty watts, and adapt to wildly different tasks without swapping hardware. That versatility at that power budget is the bar.
HMEComp is not about building humanoid robots. It is about honest measurement — comparing your system's joules-per-unit-of-work against a documented human baseline and publishing reproducible results.
Principles
Our values
Human as north star
The human body sets the efficiency bar. We measure against biology, not against last year's best machine.
Cross-domain comparison
Efficiency is universal. A watt saved in compute is as valuable as a watt saved in motion.
Team
Organizers
AWFixer Church Group
Community organization fostering technical excellence and service through engineering challenges.
AWFixer LLC
Technology company backing open engineering competitions and infrastructure for builders.
Nerds Run LLC
Operations and platform partner supporting competition logistics, measurement standards, and community.
Community
Join the community
Get track updates, discuss methodology, coordinate teams, and be first to know when submissions open.
discord.hmecomp.org