Devrim Yasar is the founder and CEO of Lucky Robots, which built a game engine from scratch for one job: generating training data for robot AI. You describe a robot, a task and a room, the engine builds the scene, and it runs the episode on real physics while recording
Christoffer Jørgenvåg is the co-founder and CEO of Hive, which builds what it calls a silicon brain for industrial machines: a sensor kit and an AI model installed on the wheel loaders, excavators and forklifts a company already owns, so the operator moves from the cab to a control
Sze Yuan Cheong and Elijah Ong are the co-founders of Devol Robots, which builds the AI that lets industrial robots handle contact: insertion, assembly, and the other jobs factories still do by hand. Sze, the CEO, started and ran factories for a decade before he touched a robot. Elijah,
What I believe about robotics and physical AI right now. September 29, 2026. Image credit: Chestnut Robotics. Every week someone asks me what I think about a data company, a humanoid round, or whether the market has run ahead of the machines. I answer the same questions in DMs, at
September 23, 2026 - San Francisco Jay Kapoor opened the third Dirty Jobs Summit with a list of jobs: the 3 a.m. shift in the factory, the road crew pouring an underpass in the heat, the people working thousands of feet down in a mine, the harvest that has to
San Francisco, September 22, 2026 Aurora Feng asked the foundation model labs a question I had not thought to ask. What do you do with the data you collected on your last generation of hardware? The answer, more often than not, is nothing. They dump it, or they leave it
September 3rd, San Francisco CA A few minutes into the workshop, Michael Raybman asked a man in the audience for his cup of water, and the man handed it over. "I'm in the middle of a talk," Michael said. "Why would you give me a
July 5, 2026 - Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Results published September 9, 2026. At 6:50 a.m. Eastern on July 5, a Falcon 9 left Cape Canaveral with 29 Starlink satellites on top and two small canisters riding on its first stage. The satellites went to orbit.
September 12, 2026 - Robotics Center of Silicon Valley, San Francisco For months, the robots folding napkins at Din Tai Fung did the hard part well and the easy part badly. The folds passed inspection. The bins did not: each napkin landed wherever it happened to land, and restaurant staff had
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August 26, 2026 - Lumafield Headquarters, San Francisco Haomiao Huang opened the panel with the Underpants Gnomes from South Park. Their business plan has three steps: collect underpants, question mark, profit. As a venture investor, he said, he hears the data version of that plan constantly. Step one, collect a lot
August 18-19, 2026 - Fort Mason, San Francisco On Tuesday morning, Jason Ma of Dyna Robotics described a foundation model pre-trained on one million hours of human video - roughly 170 years of continuous waking experience. On Wednesday afternoon, Pete Florence of Generalist showed a model that learns a new