Circuit Launch Brew Review # 1: Open-World Physical AI
Beer Review is a Friday-night reading group with robots on the floor and a drink in your hand.
Every two to three weeks, Circuit Launch and Solo Tech pick one paper worth arguing about, put real hardware in the room, and open the bar at four. The paper block runs about ninety minutes with interruptions encouraged. Then the demos come out — whatever we've been discussing in the abstract, someone is running on an actual robot ten feet away. Then everyone stays until nine and the real conversations start.
Open to the public. You don't need to be a Circuit Launch member to come — but members get priority when a night fills up, so RSVP early if you're not one.
Nights alternate between our Oakland and Mountain View floors — check the venue on each event before you drive.
Want to demo something, or present a paper? Email hi@circuitlaunch.com.
1 · Friday, September 18 — Open-World Physical AI
Event name: Beer Review №1 — Open-World Physical AI
When: Friday, September 18, 2026 · 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM PT
Where: Circuit Launch Mountain View — 599 Fairchild Dr, Mountain View, CA 94043
Hosts: Circuit Launch · Solo Tech · AGIBot
Description:
Beer Review opens in Mountain View.
The premise is simple: one paper, real hardware, and a bar that has been open since four. Every two to three weeks, Circuit Launch and Solo Tech put a piece of Physical AI research in front of a room that will argue with it, and then put a robot next to it.
For the first night, Solo Tech takes the floor with the work they've been doing on AGIBot hardware — GR00T and Sonic deployments, running live rather than described in slides. Open-world generalization is the theme: what happens when a policy trained somewhere else meets a room it has never seen.
Run of show
4:00 — Doors, drinks, mingle
5:00 — Paper block (paper TBA — posted here about a week out)
6:30 — Demos
7:00 — Open hang until around nine
Come for the paper, stay for the robots, or skip straight to the second one. Bring people who build things.
Open to the public — Circuit Launch members get priority if we hit capacity, so RSVP early.
Before you publish: this listing bills AGIBot as a host. If they haven't confirmed by go-live, swap the third paragraph for: "Solo Tech opens the series with recent deployment work — GR00T and Sonic running on real hardware, live rather than described in slides." and drop AGIBot from the host line.