Physical AI After Hours · CoRL Edition

🍺 In Austin for CoRL? Skip the hotel bar.

Physical AI After Hours is Circuit Launch's traveling robotics night. One paper worth arguing about. One real robot you can put your hands on. One beer to keep the conversation going. No slide marathons, no panels — just the people building physical AI, in one room.

This fall it's been to Carnegie Mellon's robotics campus for IROS, the SF War Memorial for SF Tech Week, and our home base in Silicon Valley. CoRL is stop four.

🎤 On the paper

→ Dr. James Xu — Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford BDML

→ Baiyu Shi — PhD Candidate, Stanford University (Bao Group)

→ Dr. Changhao Wang — Postdoc, Stanford (Shuran Song Lab) · PhD, UC Berkeley

🤝 Your hosts

→ Dr. Hao Li — Cofounder, NIMO Robotics · Postdoc, Stanford

→ Eva Xiao — Founder & CEO, AXIS Connect · Head of Asia, Circuit Launch

🤖 Live demo: Mystery guest.

Revealed on site. One real robot, hands-on, no slides.

⏰ Run of show

18:30 — Doors & drinks. Grab a beer, grab a name tag, find the robot.

19:00 — Paper walkthrough. Three speakers, one paper, 40 minutes. Then open floor — push back, ask the hard question, argue with the authors.

20:20 — Live demo. Hardware comes out. Get close, touch it, ask how it actually works.

20:30 — Open hang. Stay as long as you like. This is the part people come for.

21:00 — Last call.

📍 Venue

UT Austin · Texas Robotics

2501 Wichita St, Austin, TX 78712

Walking distance from the main conference venues.

Who should come

Robot learning researchers, founders building in physical AI, hardware people, and anyone who left Day 3 with an opinion they haven't aired yet.

Hosted by Circuit Launch × AXIS Connect

Ecosystem partner: NIMO

Physical AI After Hours series: IROS (Pittsburgh) → SF Tech Week → Silicon Valley → CoRL (Austin) → IEEE Humanoids (Silicon Valley, December). Want to demo at a future stop? Message the hosts.

Space is limited. RSVP to lock in your spot.