Saturday Robotics × Robotics Center: Robotics & World Models Reading Club 32: Robotics Center Dexterity Day. SF 10/3

A high-signal reading group for AI researchers & builders pushing the frontiers of robotic world models, WAMs, and embodied intelligence. In our previous sessions, we brought together researchers and engineers from Boston Dynamics, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Physical Intelligence, Tesla, Generalist, Rhoda AI, and leading Bay Area robotics startups.

Hosted by Junfan Zhu & Aurora Feng.

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​​​​Reading Club 32's Core Theme

Robotics Center Dexterity Day

A full day on dexterous manipulation: real hands, real tactile data, running live on stage. Hardware you can actually touch, the data behind it, and the people building both.

What to Expect

  1. Real Hardware and Data

Dexterous Hands

  • Wuji Hand 2

  • Sharpa Hand

  • BrainCo Revo Hand

  • Omnihand

  • LinkerBot

Tactile Gloves

  • Wuji Glove

  • RC G1 Glove

  • Manus Glove

Datasets

  • Real-world manipulation data

  • Tactile data

  • Force data

  • Robot motion data

An opportunity to learn more about accessing RC's dexterous data and hardware.

  1. Live Hardware Showcase

Dexterous manipulation systems running live on stage:

  • Dexterous hand control — real-time robotic hand control with tactile input

  • Tactile sensing — live touch and pressure visualisation during manipulation

  • Hand + arm integration — coordinated dexterous manipulation with robotic hands and arms

  1. Guest Panel — Solving the Dexterity Data Problem

Leaders across robot learning, foundation models, frontier robotics and real-world deployment discuss:

  • Robot training data

  • Human + tactile demonstrations

  • Hardware + data at scale

  • From research to deployment

📣 Call for Speakers

Working on dexterous hands, tactile sensing, teleoperation, manipulation data or policies? We'd love to have you on stage. Talks, live demos and panel seats are all open — email us a line on what you'd present:

Partnership and sponsorship enquiries welcome at the same addresses.

About the Hosts

Robotics Center of Silicon Valley (RC) Robotics Center of Silicon Valley is building the dexterous data and hardware stack for embodied intelligence. Robotics Hardware & Data in 48 Hours. https://www.roboticscenter.ai/

Saturday Robotics — Robotics Research Forum A 3,000+ member Silicon Valley community with a weekly robotics & world-models reading group, bringing together researchers and founders from Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Meta FAIR, Physical Intelligence, Tesla, Figure, Skild AI, Stanford, Berkeley, CMU and MIT.

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​​​​​​​​​​​Location

SF

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Date & Time

Saturday, October 3, 2026 | 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Agenda

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Door Opens & Social

  • Food 😋, beverages🧋 and UNLIMITED strawberries 🍓 (our official reading club fruits ☺️😄).

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM Keynote by

YouTube Recording: TBD (We are looking for recording volunteers)

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Q&A, ​open-floor roundtable (10–20 min per topic) on spotlight papers or any paper you’d like to highlight. Feel free to share why the paper matters and its technical details.

​Future events

#iros-reading-club-31-0928: 🍾 IROS 2026 x Saturday Robotics — Robotics Research Night | Reading Club 31. Pittsburgh 9/28

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Past events

#reading-club-28-0912: Booster T2: The Next Frontier of Open Humanoid Robotics

#reading-club-27-0905: Rethinking Robot Development: Co-Designing Morphology, Sensing, and Learning

Chenyang Ma (Applied Intuition, UNC)

#reading-club-26-0829: Sunnyvale 8/29

#reading-club-25-0822: Contact-Rich Robot Learning from Human Videos and Tactile. SF 8/22

Kelin Yu (Maryland, Amazon FAR)

#reading-club-24-0820: Saturday Robotics x EAI @ WRC Beijing | PHYSICAL AI UNPLUGGED —— 与 Physical AI 研究者的一场非正式夜谈

• 李晓帆 — Head of World Models, X Square Robot (自变量机器人)

• Tongzhou Mu — Research Scientist, Rhoda AI

• Haoyi Niu — University of California, Berkeley

• Yufei Wang — Member of Technical Staff, Genesis AI

• Shibo Zhao — Research Scientist, Amazon FAR

• 郑思鹏 — Technical Partner, Being Beyond

• Tianle Zhang — Embodied AI Researcher, JD Explore Academy

• Yihang Li — Embodied AI Researcher, JD Explore Academy

#reading-club-23-0815: Engineering Robotic Simulators for Evaluation and Beyond. SF 8/15

Kaifeng Zhang (Columbia, World Labs)

#reading-club-22-0808: ODEWorld: A Continuous Predictive Architecture via Physical-Time Flow. SF 8/8

Haoyi Niu (UC Berkeley)

#reading-club-21-0801: Vision-Language-Kinematics Supervision for Perception-Based Humanoid Loco-Manipulation — SF 8/1

Yen-Jen Wang (UC Berkeley, Amazon FAR)

#reading-club-20-0725: Agentic Robotics Models (ENPIRE and Cap-X), Mountain View 07/25

Haoru Xue (UC Berkeley)

Kris Hauser (Samsung Research America, Robot Intelligence Lab)

#SIGGRAPH-reading-club-19-0722: SIGGRAPH x Saturday Robotics — World Models for Robotics: Bridging Graphics, Simulation & Physical Intelligence | Reading Club 19, LA 07/22

#reading-club-18-0718: Causal World Models For Real-World Intelligence. SF 07/18

Guanming Wang & Bill (General Instinct, YC P26)

Feng Fan (UCSD, Aether AI)

#reading-club-17-0711: Soft Tactile-Centric Multimodal Intelligence Toward Safe and Dexterous Manipulation. SF 07/11

Quan Luu, Purdue.

#private-lunch-icml-0709: Saturday Robotics x ICML Private Lunch (Seoul)

#reading-club-16-0704: The Embodied AI Hardware Stack — Supply Chain, Sensors, and the Data Flywheel — SF 07/04

Jerry Huang, Robotics Center of Silicon Valley.

#reading-club-15-0627: Scaling Touch: Flexible Tactile Skin for Dexterous Manipulation

Binghao Huang, Columbia, Amazon FAR.

#deep-tech-week-14-0625: Deep Tech Week Research Night

SPEAR: A Simulator for Photorealistic Embodied AI Research. (ECCV 2026 accepted) by Mike Roberts, Senior Research Scientist, Adobe Research.

Bogdan Cristei, Venture Partner at SHACK15 Ventures.

Simone Totaro, CTO at Saturn Dynamics.

Shumo Chu, CEO at General Intelligence Labs.

Margaret Zhang, CEO at ThirdBrain Labs.

#reading-club-13-0620: HumanEgo: Train Robot Policy from 30 min Egocentric Videos — SF 0620

#reading-club-12-0613: Origami Robotics (YC W26) on Dexterity

#cvpr-denver-11-0606: 🤖🥘 Saturday Robotics x Manycore Tech x Neural Motion | CVPR 2026 Denver Research Night | Robotics & World Models Reading Club 11

Junfan Zhu & Aurora Feng, Founders of Saturday Robotics

Anthony Zhao, Head of North America at Manycore Tech SpacialVerse

Aurora Feng, Founder at Neural Motion. NM-GenET.

Max Zhaoshuo Li, Robotics and World Model Tech Lead at NVIDIA Cosmos. Cosmos 3.

Xiaofan Li, World Model Tech Lead at X Square Robot. WALL-WM.

Zesen Zhao, University of Michigan. Test-Time Scaling for World Action Models via Zero-Shot Geometric Verification.

Pengyi Liao. VGGT-Ω: From 3D Reconstruction to Scalable Spatial Representation.

Jie Wang, University of Pennsylvania, GRASP Lab. Toward a Robotics MMLU: Lessons from Sim & Real Evaluations of Generalist Policies.

Gordon Qian, Senior AI Researcher at Snap. Diffusion-DRF: Free, Rich, and Differentiable Reward for Video Diffusion Fine-Tuning.

#reading-club-10-0530: Bringing Robots to Life — Learning Humanoid Instincts from the Body Up | San Francisco 0530

Haochen Shi (Stanford, co-advised by Karen Liu & Shuran Song)

#private-dinner-01-0529: Robo Plov x Saturday Robotics

#reading-club-09-0523: CVPR Warm-up & Founders Spotlight — DeltaWorld + VisuoTactile Dexterous Hands

Tommie Kerssies (Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics)

Arjun Subramaniam (Factory Intelligence)

#reading-club-08-0516: Embodied Human Data as the “Internet of Motion and Behavior”

Ryan Punamiya (NVIDIA Gear, Georgia Tech)

#reading-club-07-0509: Learning to Dream: World Models, Imagination, Path to Foundation Models for Control

Ahmet Şemi ASARKAYA (Agility Robotics)

#reading-club-06-0502: Evolution of Video World Models for Robotics

Tongzhou Mu (Rhoda AI)

#reading-club-05-0425: World Models for Physical Intelligence: From Predictive Brains to Embodied Robots

Daniel Dugas & Sergio Arnaud (Meta FAIR)

#reading-club-04-0418: Abstractions of the Physical World for Decision-Making

Siming He (UC Berkeley)

#reading-club-03-0411: Robotic Policy Adaptation

Haoyi Niu (UC Berkeley)

#reading-club-02-0404: JEPA Zoo

Julian Saks (/JulianSaks)

#reading-club-01-0328

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