Oct 8 - Chicago Physical AI Workshop and Meetup

Join us at UIC on Oct 8 for the Chicago Physical AI Workshop and Meetup, co-presented by Nebius and Voxel51.
Seats are limited, Pre-registration is mandatory.

Date, Time and Location
Oct 8, 2026
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
UIC Student Center East, Room 605
750 S Halsted St
Chicago, IL 60607

Meetup Agenda
5:30–6:30 PM

Networking, food, drinks, and lightning talks

Workshop Agenda
This hands-on session uses DROID, a real-world robotics dataset loaded into FiftyOne as a native multimodal MCAP recording, and YOLO11n, fine-tuned live during the session.
6:30–7:30 PM

Welcome + framing: from raw robot logs to a trained detector
Explore a real DROID robotics recording in FiftyOne's native multimodal MCAP viewer: camera, proprioception, and language on one synced timeline, no ROS install required
Curate: extract and browse frames from the recording, filter and deduplicate
Compute embeddings on the curated frames; explore via similarity search and embeddings visualization (via Nebius Serverless AI Jobs)

7:30–8:00 PM

Auto-label: open-vocabulary detection to generate bounding boxes for the robot gripper and target objects
Train: fine-tune a YOLO11n detector on the auto-labeled frames (via Nebius Serverless AI Jobs)
Evaluate results and close the loop: view predictions back on the original MCAP timeline

8:00–8:30 PM

What else Nebius offers: Token Factory walkthrough — chat/vision models, fine-tuning, credits