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Opening Keynote

Opening Keynote

Sebastian Thrun, Founder, Google X

From Vineyards to Rail Yards: A Million Hours of Outdoor Autonomy

From Vineyards to Rail Yards: A Million Hours of Outdoor Autonomy

Vibhor Sood, Co-Founder and VP of Engineering, Burro

ACT-2: The End of Starting Over

ACT-2: The End of Starting Over

Cheng Chi, Co-Founder & CTO, Sunday

Dyna-2: A one million hour scaling law for world action models

Dyna-2: A one million hour scaling law for world action models

Jason Ma, Co-Founder, Dyna Robotics

A Hybrid Architecture for Flexible Assembly: Generalist Policies and Scan-and-Plan, Together

A Hybrid Architecture for Flexible Assembly: Generalist Policies and Scan-and-Plan, Together

Meghna Gummadi, Robotics Tech Lead, Founding Member of Technical Staff, Foundry Robotics

The Data Wars: Human Data vs UMI vs Teleop

The Data Wars: Human Data vs UMI vs Teleop

Panel discussion

Fireside Chat with Chris Urmson

Fireside Chat with Chris Urmson

Building the Robotic Stack for Fully Autonomous Biomanufacturing

Building the Robotic Stack for Fully Autonomous Biomanufacturing

Fred Parietti, Co-Founder & CEO, Multiply Labs

Fireside Chat with Alex Kendall

Fireside Chat with Alex Kendall

Your Robot Passed the Eval. Now What? A Practical Path from Model Performance to Real-World Reliability

Your Robot Passed the Eval. Now What? A Practical Path from Model Performance to Real-World Reliability

Goutham Subramanian, VP of Software, Saronic

From Language to Motion: How Gemini Powers the Next Generation of Helpful Robots

From Language to Motion: How Gemini Powers the Next Generation of Helpful Robots

Carolina Parada, VP of Robotics, Google DeepMind

Breaking Robots Is Half the Job: How Zipline Tests Its Autonomous Fleet

Breaking Robots Is Half the Job: How Zipline Tests Its Autonomous Fleet

Keenan Wyrobek, Co-Founder & CTO, Zipline

Manufacturing Robots for America

Manufacturing Robots for America

Abhinav Das, Co-Founder & CEO, Orangewood Labs

So You Want to Build a Semantic Search Pipeline for Physical AI

So You Want to Build a Semantic Search Pipeline for Physical AI

Advancing Physical AI with World Models

Advancing Physical AI with World Models

Sanja Fidler, VP of AI Research, University of Toronto

Open Developer Ecosystems for Robotics

Open Developer Ecosystems for Robotics

Tom Sanocki, VP of Engineering, 1X Technologies

What Does the GPT-3 Moment for Robotics Look Like?

What Does the GPT-3 Moment for Robotics Look Like?

Pete Florence, Co-Founder & CEO, Generalist

From Sensor to Cloud: A Unified Recording and Upload Strategy Across Navigation and Perception

From Sensor to Cloud: A Unified Recording and Upload Strategy Across Navigation and Perception

Guillaume Doisy, VP of Autonomous Systems, Dexory

Force Intelligence: A Path to General Dexterity

Force Intelligence: A Path to General Dexterity

Pulkit Agrawal, Co-Founder, Eka Robotics

VLA vs WAM: Do Robots Need to Predict the World, or Just the Next Action?

VLA vs WAM: Do Robots Need to Predict the World, or Just the Next Action?

Panel discussion

The Full-Stack Approach to General-Purpose Robots

The Full-Stack Approach to General-Purpose Robots

Theophile Gervet, Co-Founder, Genesis AI

Pixels to Payloads: Structuring Unstructured Sites for Autonomous Construction

Pixels to Payloads: Structuring Unstructured Sites for Autonomous Construction

Kevin Peterson, Co-Founder & CTO, Bedrock Robotics

Physical AI in Production: What It Takes to Deploy Robots That Work Alongside People

Physical AI in Production: What It Takes to Deploy Robots That Work Alongside People

Engin Anil, VP of Software, Autonomy, and Foundation Models AI, Cobot

Bringing Physical Intelligence to the Real World

Bringing Physical Intelligence to the Real World

Chelsea Finn, Co-Founder, Physical Intelligence

Opening Keynote: Scaling Intelligence into the Physical World

Opening Keynote: Scaling Intelligence into the Physical World

Adrian Macneil, Co-Founder & CEO, Foxglove

The Physical Turing Test: Solving General Purpose Robotics

The Physical Turing Test: Solving General Purpose Robotics

Jim Fan, Distinguished Scientist, NVIDIA

Robotic Foundation Models

Robotic Foundation Models

The Future of Intelligent Automated Logistics

The Future of Intelligent Automated Logistics

James Kuffner, CTO, Symbotic

Fireside Chat with RJ Scaringe

Fireside Chat with RJ Scaringe

Fireside Chat with Kyle Vogt

Fireside Chat with Kyle Vogt

Frontiers in Embodied AI

Frontiers in Embodied AI

Jamie Shotton, Chief Scientist, Wayve

Any Robot, Any Task, One Brain: A Path to General Intelligence

Any Robot, Any Task, One Brain: A Path to General Intelligence

Deepak Pathak, Co-Founder & CEO, Skild AI

Foundation Reward Models for Robot Learning

Foundation Reward Models for Robot Learning

Jason Ma, Co-Founder, Dyna Robotics

Advanced Autonomy for the Built World

Advanced Autonomy for the Built World

Boris Sofman, Co-Founder & CEO, Bedrock Robotics

The Missing Infrastructure Layer for Robotics

The Missing Infrastructure Layer for Robotics

Bahram Banisadr, Head of Product, Foxglove

Unchaining Physical AI

Unchaining Physical AI

Robert Sun, Founding Engineer, Dexterity

ROS vs DIY: Should You Build on ROS or Start from Scratch?

ROS vs DIY: Should You Build on ROS or Start from Scratch?

Panel discussion

Structure or Scale: How Much Should We Engineer into Robot Learning?

Structure or Scale: How Much Should We Engineer into Robot Learning?

Panel discussion

Solving Real-World Navigation for Humanoid Robots in Dynamic Environments

Solving Real-World Navigation for Humanoid Robots in Dynamic Environments

Vivian Chu, Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer, Diligent Robotics

Fast-Loop Autonomy: How Observability at Scale Accelerates Robotics Development

Fast-Loop Autonomy: How Observability at Scale Accelerates Robotics Development

Dennis Siedlak, CTO / Founder, Slip Robotics

Placing Food Like People

Placing Food Like People

Vinny Senthil, Senior Software Engineer, Chef Robotics

From Pixels to Parts: Deploying Direct CAD-to-Robot Workflows in Construction

From Pixels to Parts: Deploying Direct CAD-to-Robot Workflows in Construction

End to End Robotics in Rust

End to End Robotics in Rust

Vivek Bagaria, Head of Autonomy, Matic

Lessons from Deploying 2,000 Delivery Robots Across Geographies

Lessons from Deploying 2,000 Delivery Robots Across Geographies

Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Senior Director, Head of Autonomy, Serve Robotics

Unnatural Selection: Evolving Robotic Systems within Systems of Compounding Complexity

Unnatural Selection: Evolving Robotic Systems within Systems of Compounding Complexity

Mike Brevoort, Principal Engineer - AI Lead, Mytra

Building with Nix for Embedded Systems

Building with Nix for Embedded Systems

Daniel Fullmer, Principal Software Engineer, Anduril Industries

Co-Piloting Autonomy: Engineers & Safety Leaders Scaling Real-World Robotics Together

Co-Piloting Autonomy: Engineers & Safety Leaders Scaling Real-World Robotics Together

Last 100 Meters: Autonomy Challenges in Scaling Drone Delivery to Every Home

Last 100 Meters: Autonomy Challenges in Scaling Drone Delivery to Every Home

Karthik Lakshmanan, Head of Perception, Zipline

Accelerating Autonomy Development with the Hivemind SDK

Accelerating Autonomy Development with the Hivemind SDK

Vibhav Ganesh, Director of Engineering, Shield AI

Safety-First Deployment of Foundation Models on Delivery Robots at Scale

Safety-First Deployment of Foundation Models on Delivery Robots at Scale

Mahesh Krishnamurthi, Co-Founder & CPO, Vayu Robotics

Opening Remarks

Opening Remarks

Adrian Macneil, Co-Founder & CEO, Foxglove

Robotic Foundation Models

Robotic Foundation Models

Sergey Levine, Co-Founder, Physical Intelligence

End2end Technologies to Accelerate End2end Policies

End2end Technologies to Accelerate End2end Policies

Vijay Badrinarayanan, Waabi

Prototype to Production: Mastering Robotics at Scale

Prototype to Production: Mastering Robotics at Scale

Zenoh and ROS 2: Not a Paradox

Zenoh and ROS 2: Not a Paradox

Chris Lalancette, Intrinsic

Autonomous Navigation at Night: Skydio X10's NightSense

Autonomous Navigation at Night: Skydio X10's NightSense

Kalpana Seshadrinathan, Skydio

Building Robot Caretakers for our Planet with End2End Learning

Building Robot Caretakers for our Planet with End2End Learning

Michael Laskey, Co-Founder & CTO, Electric Sheep

What Does it Take to Train a Robot's Mind?

What Does it Take to Train a Robot's Mind?

Nick Obradovic, Figure

Turning The Dial On Autonomous Calibration

Turning The Dial On Autonomous Calibration

Jeremy Steward, Tangram Vision

A Robotics Data Platform for Fleet Level Analysis

A Robotics Data Platform for Fleet Level Analysis

Logging for Robots with Distributed Compute Nodes

Logging for Robots with Distributed Compute Nodes

James Kuszmaul, Blue River Technology

The Role of Simulation in Robotics Development

The Role of Simulation in Robotics Development

Panel discussion

Feedback to Features

Feedback to Features

Karthik Keshavamurthi, Scythe

Overcoming Challenges to Develop Reliable Seafaring Drones

Overcoming Challenges to Develop Reliable Seafaring Drones

Vibhav Altekar, Saronic

All-terrain Autonomy for Agriculture

All-terrain Autonomy for Agriculture

David Weikersdorfer, farm-ng

Mastering Nav2: Techniques and Applications Powering an Industry

Mastering Nav2: Techniques and Applications Powering an Industry

Steve Macenski, Open Navigation