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Gravis Robotics x Foxglove: Zurich Robotics Night

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18:00 · Europe / Zurich

About this event

Join us in Zurich for an evening built for the local robotics and physical AI community.
Gravis Robotics and Foxglove are teaming up to get the local robotics crowd in one room for real technical content and good conversation.
Gravis will take the stage on rebuilding a robot's nervous system — moving beyond ROS2 toward a scalable, safety-certifiable open-source stack, while keeping the machine operational at every step of the migration. Foxglove joins on how you keep watch while you rewire a robot mid-run.
Two teams, one belief: robots have to work outside the demo, not just in it.
This is an invite-only evening, and registration is subject to approval. Space at the Papiersaal is limited, so apply early.
Agenda
18:00 — Doors open. Grab a drink, meet the room.
18:45 — Welcome from Gravis and Foxglove.
18:50 — State of Robotics + What's New at Foxglove.
19:10 — Gravis takes the stage: ‘From ROS 2 to iceoryx2: Rebuilding Middleware Under a Live System.’
19:45 — Live Q&A. Bring your hardest questions.
20:10 — Networking and apéro until 22:00.
Speakers
Benjamin Rippel — Software Engineer, Gravis Robotics. Benjamin tackles high level architecture decisions for the excavators at Gravis, currently dealing with the middleware migration.

Peter Siegel — Software Engineer, Gravis Robotics. Peter works on the perception pipeline architecture and hardware-accelerated edge pipeline deployments for autonomous heavy machinery.

Who should come
Robotics and physical AI engineers, founders, and researchers who are eager to push beyond current robotics paradigms — especially anyone who's wrestled with middleware, real-time systems, or getting robots to work in the real world. It's also aimed at the people making the technical calls, like CTOs and tech leads.
Good to know
Food & drinks — drinks all evening, plus a vegetarian and vegan menu.
By train — the venue is in Sihlcity, about 5 minutes from Zürich HB to Zürich Saalsporthalle (SZU Sihltal line, every 20 min), then a short walk. T

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