🍾 CoRL 2026 x Saturday Robotics — Saturday Robotics Research Night | Reading Club 38. Austin 11/10

📅 Monday, November 12🕠 5:30 PM – 9:30 PM📍 Austin, TX (walking distance from Convention Center)

About Event

After a full day of technical sessions at CoRL 2026, join Saturday Robotics for an evening of high-signal technical discussions, lightning talks, and networking with researchers, founders, engineers, investors, and students building the future of robotics.

Saturday Robotics has become one of Silicon Valley's largest community-driven robotics research groups, bringing together researchers from Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, Stanford, UC Berkeley, CMU, MIT, Physical Intelligence, Tesla, Figure, Agility Robotics, Skild AI, Boston Dynamics, and many leading robotics startups.

Support Saturday Robotics Inc: https://donate.stripe.com/28EcN52rjgeY1fJboYgEg00

Whether you're presenting at CoRL, recruiting collaborators, building a startup, or simply interested in meeting others working on Physical AI, we'd love to see you in Austin.

At IROS 2026 October's Saturday Robotics Research Night, we were one of the coolest side events.

Agenda

🕠 5:30 PM – 6:00 PMDoors Open & Happy Hour Networking

Grab a drink, meet fellow attendees, reconnect with old friends, and make new ones before the technical sessions begin.

🕕 6:00 PM – 6:15 PM

  • Welcome Remarks

  • Speaker Sharing:

6:15PM – 7:30 PM

⚡ Lightning Talks Lightning Talk 1

Lightning Talk 2

Lightning Talk 3

Lightning Talk 4

Lightning Talk 5

Lightning Talk 6

We're opening a limited number of community lightning talk slots.

~10 minutes each

  • Research-focused and technical

  • A few slides are sufficient

  • Frontier papers, new projects, open problems, practical lessons, demos, or startup technical insights

Topics include (but are not limited to):

  • World Models

  • Physical AI

  • Humanoid Robotics

  • Vision-Language-Action Models

  • Robot Foundation Models

  • Robot Learning

  • Manipulation

  • Reinforcement Learning

  • Simulation & Sim-to-Real

  • Spatial Intelligence

  • Computer Vision

  • Embodied AI

📣 Call for Lightning Talks

Interested in speaking?

Please email [email protected] with:

  • Talk title

  • Abstract

  • Name & affiliation

  • Relevant links (arXiv paper, GitHub, slides, blog, etc.)

Priority will be given to technically deep talks that encourage hot takes & discussion within the robotics research community.

💰 Call for Sponsors

We are also looking for sponsors to help make this community event possible.

Saturday Robotics is a community-driven, research-focused organization. Sponsorship directly helps us cover:

🍕 Food & drinks🏠 Event space📣 Community programming🤖 Future robotics research events

For companies building robotics, AI infrastructure, simulation, foundation models, developer tools, hardware, or Physical AI, this is an opportunity to put your company directly in front of a highly technical robotics audience during CoRL.

Potential sponsor opportunities include:

  • Event sponsorship

  • Food & beverage sponsorship

  • Technical demo / showcase

  • Recruiting & talent networking

  • Community partnership

  • Co-branded programming

We'd love to work with companies that want to genuinely support the robotics research community — not just put a logo on a slide.

Interested in sponsoring?

📩 Email [email protected] with “CoRL Sponsor” in the subject line.

We have limited sponsor slots for this event.

🕢 7:30 PM – 8:00 PM📄 Open Discussion & Paper Roundtable

Bring a paper you'd like to highlight!

We'll host informal roundtable discussions (approximately 10–20 minutes per topic) where participants can briefly introduce recent papers, explain why they matter, and discuss technical ideas, implementation details, open questions, and future directions.

Everyone is welcome to start a discussion.

🕗 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM🍻 Happy Hour & Networking

Continue conversations over food and drinks with fellow researchers, founders, students, and engineers.

🤝 Who Should Join?

Anyone attending IROS interested in:

  • Physical AI

  • World Models

  • Humanoid Robotics

  • Robot Learning

  • Vision-Language-Action Models

  • Embodied Foundation Models

  • Manipulation

  • Reinforcement Learning

  • Simulation & Digital Twins

  • Spatial Intelligence

Whether this is your first Saturday Robotics event or you've attended one of our Reading Clubs before, everyone is welcome.

About Sponsors

💙 Support Saturday Robotics

Saturday Robotics is community-driven and sponsorship-supported. If you'd like to support future programming:

https://donate.stripe.com/28EcN52rjgeY1fJboYgEg00

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⚠️ Space is limited. Please RSVP so we can estimate attendance.

Looking forward to meeting everyone at CoRL 2026 in Austin!