This event will be held in-person at HICAM from 6 pm - 8 pm. For more info about our community visit: AustinRobotics.io
Talk 1: Every Mission Should Make the Next One Better
Description: Robots are becoming increasingly capable, but deploying them reliably into real-world environments remains a major bottleneck. Unlike humans, robots lack the ability to systematically accumulate operating experience, remember what worked or failed, and adapt to the environments where they work. We'll explore how spatial memory, deployment rehearsal, and continual adaptation can close this gap, allowing robots to arrive prepared and improve with every mission. We'll share how Percept is building the infrastructure to make robotic deployments faster, more reliable, and increasingly autonomous.
Speakers: Sam Cornelison, Co-Founder & CGO Sam brings 10+ years of enterprise technology and go-to-market experience across public safety, AI, and healthcare, including roles at high-growth companies ultimately acquired by Axon and Motorola. At Percept, he leads growth, partnerships, and commercialization.
Alper Gel, Co-Founder & CEO Alper has nearly a decade of experience in computer vision and 3D reconstruction across industrial, retail, and healthcare applications. His 3D reconstruction research at UC Berkeley became the technical foundation for Percept.
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Talk 2: Agentic Robotics: The Evolving Landscape of Agents and Policies
Description: This month, we are excited to host Hugo Ponte for an educational talk on Agentic Robotics. As the landscape of agents for robotic development and policies shifts rapidly, understanding these new paradigms is critical for anyone building in hardware and AI.
Expect practical engineering insights where Hugo will share real world applications from his startup, tatbot, and bring a robotic arm for a live hardware demonstration.
Speaker Bio: Hugo Ponte is an Austin based researcher, engineer, and founder of the robotics startup tatbot.ai. He streams his work on YouTube at hu-po. Connect with Hugo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugoponte/
Our Community Supporters
HICAM
A huge thank you to our incredible partner, the Hayes Innovation Center for Advanced Manufacturing (HICAM), for generously opening their doors to Austin Robotics and providing us with a true home where every engineer, researcher, and enthusiast can connect and build amazing things together as a visionary Austin nonprofit dedicated to accelerating advanced manufacturing through hands-on robotics and AI training, their facility provides the perfect environment for physical prototyping and hardware ideas, so to learn more about how they are shaping the next generation of the tech workforce, visit hicam.io.
