The Table · Why is the demo always better than the deployment?
DeepTech Week 2026:
The video works. The pilot mostly works. Then the same system meets a real facility: different lighting, dust, a forklift parked where the map says floor, a network that drops for four seconds, and people who will absolutely unplug your robot to charge a phone.
StageOne Ventures is inviting you to a table about the gap between a system that works and a system that keeps working in a place you do not control.
On the table
What actually dies in the field, ranked by how often it happens
Pilot-to-fleet economics, and how much of a robotics company turns out to be field support
What to build into the product now so deployment number twenty does not need you on site
Our guest: Amir Bousani — co-founder and CEO of RGo Robotics, a StageOne portfolio company.
Amir's company builds visual perception that lets autonomous machines understand where they are in warehouses and industrial sites, shipped to manufacturers rather than demoed at conferences. He has taken perception from a clean lab result to customer fleets running every day, and he can narrate every step of that road where it nearly came apart, which is a more useful education than any success story.
Eight seats around one table in Tel Aviv: six people building in Physical AI, our guest, and one person from StageOne.
13:00 to 15:00, two hours, one question.
An open conversation with someone who has already done it, not a talk: no slides, no presentation, no pitching.
Lunch is on StageOne.
Only six seats. Every seat changes the conversation, so if your plans change, please cancel your registration on this page or let us know as early as you can, and we will give the seat to someone else.
Seats are reviewed one by one. We send the exact address in the confirmation email.