SFC × Mission Robotics: Spatial Intelligence Night
About the Event
Spatial Frontier Club and Mission Robotics are bringing the community together for another evening of Spatial Intelligence in San Francisco!
This gathering is designed for researchers, engineers, founders, and builders to share recent work, exchange ideas, and meet others working across Spatial Intelligence, World Models, Robotics, and Physical AI.
As AI, computer graphics, and spatial computing continue to converge, we’ll explore how advances in perception, representation, simulation, and generation are shaping intelligent systems that understand and interact with the physical world.
The evening will combine short technical talks, open discussion, and networking. Come with a project to share, a question to explore, or simply an interest in what others are building.
Who Should Attend
Spatial Intelligence
World Models
Robotics & Physical AI
Robot Learning & Embodied AI
3D Generative AI
Computer Vision & Multimodal AI
Computer Graphics
Neural Rendering & Gaussian Splatting
Simulation & Digital Twins
XR & Spatial Computing
We welcome researchers, engineers, technical artists, founders, product leaders, investors, students, and ecosystem builders whose work touches these areas.
Event Format
5:30 PM – 6:15 PM
Arrival, networking, food & drinks
6:15 PM – 7:30 PM
SFC & Mission Robotics welcome, speaker talks and technical sharing
7:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Open discussion and audience Q&A
8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Community mixer and networking
Featured Speakers
Hokin Deng from Carnegie Mellon University
Hokin Deng is a researcher working on video reasoning AI, studying how machines can understand and predict the physical world from video. He leads VBVR, a large-scale video model benchmark spanning 56 authors across 32 universities, which reached #1 on Hugging Face and was named Paper of the Month, alongside publications at ICML. He previously conducted research in cognitive science and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Carnegie Mellon.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26105
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Call for Speakers
We’re currently inviting speakers to share recent research, technical demos, and insights from their work.
Interested in speaking? Select the “Speaker” option when registering on Luma and include a brief description of your proposed topic. You’re welcome to add a link to a paper, project, or demo.
We’ll follow up with selected speakers to discuss the session.
About the Hosts
Spatial Frontier Club is a Bay Area community connecting researchers, founders, investors, and builders working across Spatial Intelligence, World Models, Robotics, Embodied AI, Simulation, 3D technology, and Physical AI.
Mission Robotics is building the beating heart of robotics in the Mission, bringing together the leading builders, founders, and mad scientists making embodied AI a reality. If your robot got you kicked out of a WeWork, we want you here.
Registration
This is a curated gathering with limited capacity.
Please register using your current affiliation and include a short note about your work or interest in the event themes. Priority may be given to applicants whose backgrounds are closely aligned with the discussion.
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