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137th SF Hardware Meetup @ Mission Robotics | Physical AI Robotics

SEP10
18:30 · America / Los Angeles

About this event

Join us for our 137th SF Hardware Meetup @ Mission Robotics. We'll be covering everything physical AI related.
🤖 Bring physical demos for open mic! It can be products, prototypes, components, or anything physical.

We have a great lineup of speakers:
Grace, Founder + CEO @ Andromeda
Sam, Manager, Advanced Hardware Engineering @ Zoox
Lucy, CTO @ Mithras Industrial
Agenda
6:30 -7:00p - Arrival, mingle, grab refreshments
7:00 -7:05p - Welcome and introduction
7:05 - 8:00p - Guest Talks
8:00 - 8:30p - Community open mic
Anyone will have the chance for a 2min pitch to demo a prototype or talk about what they're working on.
8:30-9:30p - Mix + mingle
Thank you to our sponsor!
New Theory AI is building foundation world models for robotics – giving machines enough understanding of the physical world to act in places and situations they're seeing for the first time. We're building toward a model that lets anyone teach a robot a new task in under five minutes.
Shout-out to our venue partner!
Mission Robotics is building the beating heart of robotics in the Mission, bringing together the leading builders, founders, and mad scientists making embodied AI a reality. If your robot got you kicked out of a WeWork, we want you here.
Thank you to our community partners!
informal is a freelance collective for the most talented independent professionals in hardware. Whether you're looking for a single contractor, a full-time employee, or an entire team of professionals to work on everything from product development to go-to-market, the informal collective has the perfect collection of people for the job. Learn more.
If you want to help support the next meetup, please reach out to michael (at) hardwaremeetup (dot) com for sponsorship inquiries.
See you soon!
This event is part of SF Hardware Meetup, which hosts monthly demo nights. Hardware Meetup meets across 40+ cities with 40k members.
Hardware Meetup is a volunteer organization and relies on sponsorships to cover the costs of putting

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