17th San Jose Hardware Meetup @ SeeedStudio | Building Physical AI
17th San Jose Hardware Meetup @ Seeed Studio | Building Physical AI
We're back for the 17th San Jose Hardware Meetup! This time, we're at Seeed Studio's office in Santa Clara — and we're tackling one of the most exciting frontiers in engineering right now: Physical AI.
From embodied intelligence and edge inference to sensor fusion, robotic perception, and AI-driven control loops, Physical AI is moving fast — and the people building it are in this room. Join us for an evening of expert talks, real-world demos, and honest conversation about what it actually takes to put intelligence into hardware.
🤖 Bring hardware demos for open mic.
We have a great lineup of speakers:
Nick Velasquez: Founder of DeepSea Developments and Seeed Studio Ranger. Nick will share his hands-on experience developing with Reachy Mini — Hugging face's open-source humanoid — and what building with it revealed about human-robot interaction in the age of Physical AI.
Betty Fan: Seeed Studio.
More TBA
Agenda
6:30–7:00 – Arrival, mingle, grab refreshments
7:00–7:05 – Welcome and introduction
7:05–8:30 – Guest talks and audience Q&A
8:30–9:00 – Community open mic — Anyone will have the chance for a 2min pitch to demo a prototype or talk about what they're working on.
9:00–9:30 – Mix + mingle
Thank you to our host
Seeed Studio is an open hardware innovation platform and IoT technology company that has been serving the global developer community since 2008. Specializing in edge computing, AI hardware, smart sensing, and PCB manufacturing, Seeed helps engineers and makers go from prototype to production — with a mission to make hardware more accessible and lower the threshold for hardware innovation.
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