Physical AI for Manufacturing: The Next Industrial Revolution

​Manufacturing, Physical AI & Pizza

​What’s the cutting edge in Physical AI right now?
And what happens when simulation can perfectly replicate the real world?

​For decades, critical manufacturing has relied on fragmented networks of small machine shops, often disconnected from demand. Meanwhile, demand across aerospace, defence and energy is accelerating. Closing that gap means control systems that can learn, adapt and run physical processes, not just plan them.

​Reinforcement learning arrived at this problem from an unlikely direction. A decade ago its best-known results were in games: an agent learned to play Atari from raw pixels, then AlphaGo beat the world’s strongest Go players. In 2016, DeepMind pointed the same methods at cooling Google’s data centres and cut cooling energy by around 40%. By 2018 the system was controlling live equipment directly. Games had become industrial control.

​Since then, RL has turned up in tokamak plasma control, chip floorplanning, turbine and grid operation, component design, and process control in factories and fabs.

​🛰️ We’re bringing together founders, engineers, operators, investors and curious minds for an informal evening in Shoreditch to explore these questions.

​🍕 Pizza and drinks on us. Bring your curiosity.

​📍 Shoreditch, London. Exact venue shared with approved guests.

​Hosted by Entrepreneurs First-backed founders, with backgrounds at YC-backed startups, Airbus and NATO.