Happy Hour with Sky9 after CoRL
CoRL week is dense. This is the low-friction off-site: drinks, bites, and a room where robot learning researchers, founders, and investors can actually relax and share ideas.
Sky9 Capital, together with UT Austin INF 385T, Z Potentials, Muka Robotics, is hosting this casual happy hour a short walk from the JW Marriott / Hilton downtown venues. If you are in Austin for CoRL 2026 and you spend your days thinking about robot learning, embodied AI, manipulation, VLA models, simulation, or the companies being built around them, come by.
Space is limited. Approval requested.
About the Hosts:
Sky9 Capital is a global VC with ~$2B AUM investing from early to growth stage in technically driven founders building category-defining companies. Sky9 has 35+ exits/IPOs with a strong focus on Al infrastructure, hardware, and deep tech. With presence in North America, Asia and Europe, Sky9 has backed 150+ companies including TikTok, Kimi, Producer AI (acquired by Google), Reactor, RadixArk and acts as a long-term partner providing technical insight, global market access, and scaling support.
INF 385T is the AI startup class at UT Austin that helps students to build YC ready products in 15 weeks. The class is created by Jiaxin Pei, Assistant Professor at UT’s School of Computing.
Z Potentials is a next-generation founder and tech community built around the intersection of AI, frontier technology, and global innovation. With over 1 million followers and 500+ active founder communities, we have hosted 50+ invitation only events and panels with top-tier venture capital firms.
Muka Robotics is building general-purpose world models that enable robots to understand, reason about, and adapt to the physical world. By connecting real-world interactions with continuous learning, we're creating a system where every robot contributes to making the next one more capable. Starting with reliable robot work buddies, we're building toward physical intelligence that continuously improves, generalizes, and scales with real-world experience.