Forward Deployed: Engineering Robots in the Real World
The Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer is a new kind of role (part field engineer, part product thinker, part builder) and it's emerging fast across companies deploying physical AI in the real world.
This meetup brings together engineers who live this role day-to-day. Each talk is ~20 minutes, centered around a real project, with the messy context and tradeoffs explained along the way.
Life of an FDRE - Josefine Quack (Monumental)
How to get stuff done, and why we need to get our hands dirty to innovate efficiently. Josefine will show what ownership looks like in the field, and why her day-to-day is different from any traditional robotics or software engineering role.
What Happens When Robots Ignore Construction Rules - Alfred Polycarpe (Monumental)
What do you do when you get handed a drawing for something you've never done before and is starting next week? Alfred walks through the hardware workarounds, the math-based design tooling, and the codebase assumptions that only break when you push the robot beyond standard walls.
Schedule
18:00: Walk-in & drinks
18:30: Talks (2 x 30 mins)
Post-talks: Hang out, chat, and connect
We’ll provide the drinks (incl. non-alcoholic) and delicious wraps to keep the vibes high. See you there!
Who should attend?
Robotics engineers, mechatronics people, software engineers working on physical systems: anyone curious about what it means to scale robots end-to-end in the field.
About the host
Monumental builds autonomous robots that construct buildings. We're already laying bricks on family homes, canal walls and industrial buildings across the Netherlands!
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