The Schedule
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Opening
The hosts welcome the room and set out the questions for the day.
[Hosts]
[Convergence]
Opening
The hosts welcome the room and set out the questions for the day.
[Hosts]
[Convergence]
The World's Largest Robot Fleet
Tye Brady, Chief Technologist at Amazon Robotics, on running the world's largest robot fleet and what it teaches about people and machines working together.
[Fireside]
[Deployments Multiply]
The World's Largest Robot Fleet
Tye Brady, Chief Technologist at Amazon Robotics, on running the world's largest robot fleet and what it teaches about people and machines working together.
[Fireside]
[Deployments Multiply]
Operating Systems and Models
The software layer under the robot: operating systems, models and what connects them.
[Panel]
[Models Scale]
Operating Systems and Models
The software layer under the robot: operating systems, models and what connects them.
[Panel]
[Models Scale]
Eddie Bernardon
AIPEX Racing
Chief Racing Officer
Eddie Bernardon
AIPEX Racing
Chief Racing Officer
Brian Geisel
Geisel Software
CEO
Brian Geisel
Geisel Software
CEO
Paige Fox
Databricks, ex-Google
Solutions Architect & ML Infrastructure Engineer
Paige Fox
Databricks, ex-Google
Solutions Architect & ML Infrastructure Engineer
Nikhil Rai
BlackBerry QNX
Senior Manager Global Product & Industry Marketing
Nikhil Rai
BlackBerry QNX
Senior Manager Global Product & Industry Marketing
Machine Perception: Imaging and Sensing
Technical talks on how machines see: new cameras, sensors and imaging methods for robots.
[Technical Talk]
[Models Scale]
Machine Perception: Imaging and Sensing
Technical talks on how machines see: new cameras, sensors and imaging methods for robots.
[Technical Talk]
[Models Scale]
Tristan Swedish
Ubicept
Co-Founder & CTO
Tristan Swedish
Ubicept
Co-Founder & CTO
Gordon Wetzstein
Co-Founder at Rhoda AI
Professor at Stanford University
Gordon Wetzstein
Co-Founder at Rhoda AI
Professor at Stanford University
Christopher Metzler
University of Maryland
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Christopher Metzler
University of Maryland
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Robots in the Home, Then and Next
Colin Angle, co-founder of iRobot, on what putting robots into homes taught him and what he is building next.
[Fireside]
[Deployments Multiply]
Robots in the Home, Then and Next
Colin Angle, co-founder of iRobot, on what putting robots into homes taught him and what he is building next.
[Fireside]
[Deployments Multiply]
Manipulation
Hands, grasping and assembly. Why handling the physical world is still one of the hardest problems in robotics, and who is making progress.
[Panel]
[Deployments Multiply]
Manipulation
Hands, grasping and assembly. Why handling the physical world is still one of the hardest problems in robotics, and who is making progress.
[Panel]
[Deployments Multiply]
Matthew Brown
ThoughtForge AI
CEO
Matthew Brown
ThoughtForge AI
CEO
Tyler Bouchard
Flexxbotics
CEO & Co-founder
Tyler Bouchard
Flexxbotics
CEO & Co-founder
Jan R. Seyler
Festo
Director Advanced Development Analytics and Control
Jan R. Seyler
Festo
Director Advanced Development Analytics and Control
Lenore Rasmussen
Ras Labs
Founder & CTO
Lenore Rasmussen
Ras Labs
Founder & CTO
Reliable Autonomy in the Field
Technical talks on making autonomous robots dependable outdoors and in unstructured settings.
[Technical Talk]
[Deployments Multiply]
Reliable Autonomy in the Field
Technical talks on making autonomous robots dependable outdoors and in unstructured settings.
[Technical Talk]
[Deployments Multiply]
Fielding Fleets: Ships at Sea, Drones in Warehouses
Founders running autonomous fleets outside the lab, at sea and in warehouses, on what changes when one robot becomes hundreds.
[Panel]
[Deployments Multiply]
Fielding Fleets: Ships at Sea, Drones in Warehouses
Founders running autonomous fleets outside the lab, at sea and in warehouses, on what changes when one robot becomes hundreds.
[Panel]
[Deployments Multiply]
Constrained Computing
Running capable AI on small, low-power machines such as drones, wearables and edge devices.
[Panel]
[Models Scale]
Constrained Computing
Running capable AI on small, low-power machines such as drones, wearables and edge devices.
[Panel]
[Models Scale]
The State Layer for Physical AI
A technical talk on the software that keeps track of what machines on a factory floor are doing, and why physical AI depends on it.
[Technical Talk]
[Models Scale]
The State Layer for Physical AI
A technical talk on the software that keeps track of what machines on a factory floor are doing, and why physical AI depends on it.
[Technical Talk]
[Models Scale]
A Conversation with Daniela Rus
Daniela Rus, Director of MIT CSAIL, on where robotics and AI meet and what comes next for physical intelligence.
[Fireside]
[Convergence]
A Conversation with Daniela Rus
Daniela Rus, Director of MIT CSAIL, on where robotics and AI meet and what comes next for physical intelligence.
[Fireside]
[Convergence]
Tools: Simulation, Twins and Data
The simulators, digital twins and data tools used to build and test robots before they meet the real world.
[Panel]
[Data Compounds]
Tools: Simulation, Twins and Data
The simulators, digital twins and data tools used to build and test robots before they meet the real world.
[Panel]
[Data Compounds]
Cristian Meo
LatentWorlds
CEO
Cristian Meo
LatentWorlds
CEO
Adam Chikha
Asynchronics
CEO & Founder
Adam Chikha
Asynchronics
CEO & Founder
Christopher Benson
Istari Digital
CTO & Co-Founder
Christopher Benson
Istari Digital
CTO & Co-Founder
Mike Flaxman
Employee Sand Technologies
Chief Science Officer
Mike Flaxman
Employee Sand Technologies
Chief Science Officer
Programming Matter and Autonomous Labs
Technical talks on materials that can be programmed and laboratories that run their own experiments.
[Technical Talk]
[Models Scale]
Programming Matter and Autonomous Labs
Technical talks on materials that can be programmed and laboratories that run their own experiments.
[Technical Talk]
[Models Scale]
Robot Learning: Hype Against Reality
Leading researchers separate what robot learning can do today from what is still promise.
[Keynote]
[Models Scale]
Robot Learning: Hype Against Reality
Leading researchers separate what robot learning can do today from what is still promise.
[Keynote]
[Models Scale]
Remote Systems
Robots working where people are not, and what it takes to run them from a distance.
[Panel]
[Deployments Multiply]
Remote Systems
Robots working where people are not, and what it takes to run them from a distance.
[Panel]
[Deployments Multiply]
Robot Perception and Design
Technical talks on how robots make sense of their surroundings and how AI is changing the way robots are designed.
[Technical Talk]
[Models Scale]
Robot Perception and Design
Technical talks on how robots make sense of their surroundings and how AI is changing the way robots are designed.
[Technical Talk]
[Models Scale]
The Silicon and Compute Under Physical AI
What physical AI asks of hardware, from the chips inside the robot to the computing behind it.
[Panel]
[Models Scale]
The Silicon and Compute Under Physical AI
What physical AI asks of hardware, from the chips inside the robot to the computing behind it.
[Panel]
[Models Scale]
Ahmad Bahai
Texas Instruments
Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President
Ahmad Bahai
Texas Instruments
Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President
Paul Golding
Analog Devices
Head of Physical Intelligence, VP
Paul Golding
Analog Devices
Head of Physical Intelligence, VP
Vijay Gadepally
Co-Founder, Radium Cloud & Bay Compute | Senior Scientist, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Vijay Gadepally
Co-Founder, Radium Cloud & Bay Compute | Senior Scientist, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Matt Ramsay
AMD
Corporate VP, Financial Strategy & Investor Relations
Matt Ramsay
AMD
Corporate VP, Financial Strategy & Investor Relations
Data, Robots and Biological Compute
New sources of robot data and new kinds of computing, including biological systems, and what they mean for how machines learn.
[Panel]
[Data Compounds]
Data, Robots and Biological Compute
New sources of robot data and new kinds of computing, including biological systems, and what they mean for how machines learn.
[Panel]
[Data Compounds]
Krithik Ramesh
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Undergraduate Researcher
Krithik Ramesh
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Undergraduate Researcher
Mateo Sanchez Lopez Negrete
Dextero
CTO & Founder
Mateo Sanchez Lopez Negrete
Dextero
CTO & Founder
Sanjar Atamuradov
Humanola
Founder
Sanjar Atamuradov
Humanola
Founder
Annie Kathuria
Co-Founder of Organotics
Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University
Annie Kathuria
Co-Founder of Organotics
Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University
Startup Showcase
Early-stage companies present what they are building in physical AI.
[Startups]
[Convergence]
Startup Showcase
Early-stage companies present what they are building in physical AI.
[Startups]
[Convergence]
Autonomy at Work: On the Road, in the Plant and in the Field
Autonomy past the pilot stage: vehicles on public roads, robots on the factory line and machines on industrial sites.
[Panel]
[Deployments Multiply]
Autonomy at Work: On the Road, in the Plant and in the Field
Autonomy past the pilot stage: vehicles on public roads, robots on the factory line and machines on industrial sites.
[Panel]
[Deployments Multiply]
Physical AI-Native Platforms
Companies built around physical AI from day one, and the platforms they are creating for others to build on.
[Panel]
[Convergence]
Physical AI-Native Platforms
Companies built around physical AI from day one, and the platforms they are creating for others to build on.
[Panel]
[Convergence]
Startup Showcase
Early-stage companies present what they are building in physical AI.
[Startups]
[Convergence]
Startup Showcase
Early-stage companies present what they are building in physical AI.
[Startups]
[Convergence]
Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Machines That Meet the Body
Bionic limbs, wearables, soft robots and devices that work inside the body. Researchers and builders on machines designed around people.
[Panel]
[Deployments Multiply]
Machines That Meet the Body
Bionic limbs, wearables, soft robots and devices that work inside the body. Researchers and builders on machines designed around people.
[Panel]
[Deployments Multiply]
Canan Dagdeviren
MIT Media Lab
Associate Professor
Canan Dagdeviren
MIT Media Lab
Associate Professor
Jamie Paik
EPFL
Vice-Dean of School of Engineering
Jamie Paik
EPFL
Vice-Dean of School of Engineering
Hugh Herr
MIT Media Lab
Professor
Hugh Herr
MIT Media Lab
Professor
Bertrand Duplat
Robeauté
Co-Founder & CEO
Bertrand Duplat
Robeauté
Co-Founder & CEO
Frontiers of Physical AI
Neil Gershenfeld, Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, leads a session on the far edge of physical AI, where computing meets the material world.
[Panel]
[Convergence]
Frontiers of Physical AI
Neil Gershenfeld, Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, leads a session on the far edge of physical AI, where computing meets the material world.
[Panel]
[Convergence]
Benchmarking Robot Manipulation
A technical talk on how to measure and compare how well robots handle objects, and why shared benchmarks matter.
[Technical Talk]
[Data Compounds]
Benchmarking Robot Manipulation
A technical talk on how to measure and compare how well robots handle objects, and why shared benchmarks matter.
[Technical Talk]
[Data Compounds]
Physical AI and Economic Security
Navin Girishankar of CSIS on what it takes for a country to build and field physical AI, and why that is now a question of economic security.
[Fireside]
[Convergence]
Physical AI and Economic Security
Navin Girishankar of CSIS on what it takes for a country to build and field physical AI, and why that is now a question of economic security.
[Fireside]
[Convergence]
Soft and Wearable Robots
Researchers and builders making robots people wear, and machines soft enough to work safely with the body.
[Panel]
[Deployments Multiply]
Soft and Wearable Robots
Researchers and builders making robots people wear, and machines soft enough to work safely with the body.
[Panel]
[Deployments Multiply]
Patrick Slade
Harvard
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Patrick Slade
Harvard
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Conor Walsh
Harvard University
Professor of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Conor Walsh
Harvard University
Professor of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Thrishantha Nanayakkara
Professor of Robotics at Imperial
Director of Morph Lab
Thrishantha Nanayakkara
Professor of Robotics at Imperial
Director of Morph Lab
Cyber Defense for Physical AI
Technical talks on securing robots and connected machines, where a breach has physical consequences.
[Technical Talk]
[Data Compounds]
Cyber Defense for Physical AI
Technical talks on securing robots and connected machines, where a breach has physical consequences.
[Technical Talk]
[Data Compounds]
The Future of Work with Robots
What changes for jobs, skills and workplaces as robots take on more physical work.
[Panel]
[Convergence]
The Future of Work with Robots
What changes for jobs, skills and workplaces as robots take on more physical work.
[Panel]
[Convergence]
Deployment for the Real World
What it takes to get robots working reliably in factories and warehouses, from first pilot to daily operations.
[Panel]
[Deployments Multiply]
Deployment for the Real World
What it takes to get robots working reliably in factories and warehouses, from first pilot to daily operations.
[Panel]
[Deployments Multiply]
Van Garrett
RightHand Robotics
VP of Partnerships North America
Van Garrett
RightHand Robotics
VP of Partnerships North America
Rajesh Sinha
TCS Research Robotics Group
Chief Scientist & Head of Smart Machines
Rajesh Sinha
TCS Research Robotics Group
Chief Scientist & Head of Smart Machines
Manthan Pawar
Destro AI
Founder & CEO
Manthan Pawar
Destro AI
Founder & CEO
Robots in Medicine
Technical talks on robots in hospitals and care.
[Technical Talk]
[Deployments Multiply]
Robots in Medicine
Technical talks on robots in hospitals and care.
[Technical Talk]
[Deployments Multiply]
Raju Rhee
Harvard T H Chan School
Physician Entrepreneur
Raju Rhee
Harvard T H Chan School
Physician Entrepreneur
Chayan Sarkar
Senior Scientist at TCS Research
Head of Pittsburgh Medical Robotics Center
Chayan Sarkar
Senior Scientist at TCS Research
Head of Pittsburgh Medical Robotics Center
Debbie Theobald
Vecna Technologies
CEO
Debbie Theobald
Vecna Technologies
CEO
Tutor Intelligence: Inside the Robot Data Factory
Tutor Intelligence shows how robots working real jobs produce the data that trains the next generation of robots.
[AI Demo]
[Data Compounds]
Tutor Intelligence: Inside the Robot Data Factory
Tutor Intelligence shows how robots working real jobs produce the data that trains the next generation of robots.
[AI Demo]
[Data Compounds]
Sea, Air and Street
Autonomy outside the factory: aircraft, sidewalk robots and vehicles that share space with the public.
[Panel]
[Deployments Multiply]
Sea, Air and Street
Autonomy outside the factory: aircraft, sidewalk robots and vehicles that share space with the public.
[Panel]
[Deployments Multiply]
Robots That Build
Technical talks on robots and AI in construction, from factory-built homes to automation on the building site.
[Technical Talk]
[Deployments Multiply]
Robots That Build
Technical talks on robots and AI in construction, from factory-built homes to automation on the building site.
[Technical Talk]
[Deployments Multiply]
Humanoids: From Prototype to Production
The companies building humanoid and general-purpose robots on the step from working prototype to production at scale.
[Panel]
[Deployments Multiply]
Humanoids: From Prototype to Production
The companies building humanoid and general-purpose robots on the step from working prototype to production at scale.
[Panel]
[Deployments Multiply]
Funding Deep Tech and Defense
Investors on backing deep tech and defense companies, where the science is hard and the timelines are long.
[Panel]
[Convergence]
Funding Deep Tech and Defense
Investors on backing deep tech and defense companies, where the science is hard and the timelines are long.
[Panel]
[Convergence]
Building Humanoid and Service Robots
Technical talks from teams building humanoid and service robots.
[Technical Talk]
[Deployments Multiply]
Building Humanoid and Service Robots
Technical talks from teams building humanoid and service robots.
[Technical Talk]
[Deployments Multiply]
Drones: Autonomy in the Air
Sertac Karaman, Director of MIT LIDS, on autonomous flight and where drones go next.
[Keynote]
[Deployments Multiply]
Drones: Autonomy in the Air
Sertac Karaman, Director of MIT LIDS, on autonomous flight and where drones go next.
[Keynote]
[Deployments Multiply]
Across Industries: Farm, Warehouse and Pipeline
Founders putting robots and AI to work in agriculture, logistics and energy, and what each industry demands.
[Panel]
[Deployments Multiply]
Across Industries: Farm, Warehouse and Pipeline
Founders putting robots and AI to work in agriculture, logistics and energy, and what each industry demands.
[Panel]
[Deployments Multiply]
Real-Time Motion Planning for Robots
A technical talk on planning robot motion in real time, so machines can move safely in changing surroundings.
[Technical Talk]
[Models Scale]
Real-Time Motion Planning for Robots
A technical talk on planning robot motion in real time, so machines can move safely in changing surroundings.
[Technical Talk]
[Models Scale]
Investing in Physical AI
Investors on where capital is going in physical AI and what they need to see before they commit.
[Panel]
[Convergence]
Investing in Physical AI
Investors on where capital is going in physical AI and what they need to see before they commit.
[Panel]
[Convergence]
Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi
UBS Global Wealth
CIO Global Equities
Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi
UBS Global Wealth
CIO Global Equities
Nick Grossman
Union Square Ventures
General Partner
Nick Grossman
Union Square Ventures
General Partner
Jim Adler
Toyota Ventures
Founder & General Partner
Jim Adler
Toyota Ventures
Founder & General Partner
Enterprise AI Meets the Physical World
How the AI already running inside companies, from software agents to business data, starts to direct machines on the floor.
[Panel]
[Convergence]
Enterprise AI Meets the Physical World
How the AI already running inside companies, from software agents to business data, starts to direct machines on the floor.
[Panel]
[Convergence]
Sean Hardy
ClickUp
Director, AI Solutions Consulting & Deployment
Sean Hardy
ClickUp
Director, AI Solutions Consulting & Deployment
Shashi Bhushan
TCS
Vice President and Managing Partner, Corporate Technology Office
Shashi Bhushan
TCS
Vice President and Managing Partner, Corporate Technology Office
Satya Nitta
Emergence AI
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman
Satya Nitta
Emergence AI
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman
Raising an Early Round in Physical AI
Early-stage investors on valuations and what founders need ready before they raise.
[Technical Talk]
[Convergence]
Raising an Early Round in Physical AI
Early-stage investors on valuations and what founders need ready before they raise.
[Technical Talk]
[Convergence]
Closing
The hosts draw the day together and look ahead.
[Hosts]
[Convergence]
Closing
The hosts draw the day together and look ahead.
[Hosts]
[Convergence]
