Physical AI Meetup - Zurich Edition

Physical AI Meetup Zurich

Robots that work in a demo video are easy. Robots that work on a factory floor, in a warehouse or out in the real world are a different story. This evening is about the hard technical problems behind that gap, told by the engineers solving them.

We are bringing together builders, researchers and founders from the Zurich robotics and physical AI scene for an evening of deep technical lightning talks, live demos and good conversations.

🎤 The Talks

Sigmund Høeg (Sereact): "Physical AI for Real Deployments"

Michael Grupp & Gijs de Jong (rerun): "Data Infrastructure for Robot Learning"

Nikolay Kobyshev, Aleksander Alekseev & Matteo Destro (Cerrion): "Big-model robustness at small-model speed: vision for the factory floor"

Carl Winkler (Modal): „Serverless Compute for Embodied AI“

📅 Schedule

18:00 - Doors Open & Networking18:30 - Welcome18:40 - Lightning Talks & Demos19:30 - Joint Q&A20:00 - Drinks & Mingling21:00 - Close

🚀 Who Should Join?

Robotics and ML engineers working on embodied AI

Researchers and students in robotics, controls and computer vision

Founders building in physical AI, automation and manufacturing tech

Anyone curious about what it really takes to bring AI into the physical world

🤝 Hosts

Modal - The platform for production AI. Run inference, training, and sandboxes with sub-second cold starts, instant autoscaling, with a dev experience that feels local. Teams like Cognition, Runway, Suno, Legora, Black Forest Labs now ship faster.

🎤 Speakers from

rerun - The Data Layer for Physical AI

cerrion - Eliminate production losses with Video AI Agents

sereact - Physical AI that works where it matters most.

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