Name: Monthly Robotics Meetup @ Frontier Tower — Co-Hosted with Tesla
Start: 2025-11-20T18:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-11-20T20:00:00-08:00
Location: Frontier Makerspace

Monthly Robotics Meetup @ Frontier Tower

Co-hosted with Tesla | Featuring Intel’s Open Edge Platform | VIP Perks: Unlimited Wine + Cybertruck Test Drives

Join the Bay Area’s builders, researchers, and founders for the Monthly Robotics Meetup at Frontier Tower, co-hosted with Tesla.This is the high-signal evening for anyone working on or curious about robotics, autonomous systems, edge AI, perception, manipulation, ROS/ROS2, mechatronics, or hardware startups.

Expect hands-on demos, real engineering insight, and connections that move your projects forward.

⚡ What to Expect

🔥 Lightning Talks

Fast, useful, and vendor-neutral — short technical blasts from people actually shipping robots. Topics include architecture, safety, testing, scaling fleets, and production ops.

🤖 Featured Demo — Intel Open Edge Platform

“Accelerating Edge Robotics: AI Workloads and OS Image Composer on Intel’s Open Edge Platform (OEP)”Speaker: Alpesh Rodage, Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Architect at IntelAlpesh brings 20+ years of experience in software and distributed systems, guiding teams through cloud-native transformations and AI workload optimization. Expect a deep dive into Intel’s Open Edge Platform and how it’s powering the next generation of robotic autonomy.

🧠 Community Show-and-Tell

Bring your robot, dev kit, or tool for a 5-minute micro demo.Plug in, show off, get feedback, and meet people who can accelerate your work.

🍷 Networking That Matters

No fluff, no endless pitch decks — just real engineers, founders, and operators swapping ideas (and hardware schematics) over unlimited wine.

🎟 VIP Access ($40)

Want more? VIP ticket holders receive:
🚀 Unlimited premium wine bar access
🚗 Priority Cybertruck test drives (onsite Tesla showcase)
🎖️ Early check-in + front-row seating for lightning talks

Limited VIP passes — these always sell out.

👥 Who Should Come

- Robotics, ML, firmware, and controls engineers
- Hardware founders, product leaders, and DevOps for robots
- Researchers and students in perception, planning, or HRI
- Investors and operators in frontier robotics and industrial AI

🗓 Tentative Agenda

6:00–6:30 PM Check-in, snacks, networking

6:30–7:15 PM Lightning Talks (3–4 x 10 min + Q&A)

7:15–7:45 PM Intel Featured Demo

7:45–8:30 PM Community Show-and-Tell + Networking + Wine Bar

Have a demo to share?Add a note in your RSVP with a one-liner and your setup needs (table, power, safety considerations).

📍 Location

Frontier Tower – Frontier Makerspace (7th Floor)
995 Market St, San Francisco
Direct BART/MUNI access • Elevator available • Limited street parking

🧭 About Frontier Tower

We’re transforming a 16-floor tower in downtown San Francisco into a self-governed vertical village — a hub for frontier technologies and creative arts.Our community spans AI, Ethereum, biotech, neuroscience, longevity, robotics, human flourishing, and music, all under one roof.

Be part of the first self-governed tech village in SF:

➡️ Apply for Citizenship

🧠 Code of Conduct

We’re a collaborative, welcoming community. Be kind, respect people and equipment, and keep demos safe. Harassment or unsafe behavior isn’t tolerated.

This event is hosted at the Frontier Tower:

We are transforming a 16-floor tower in San Francisco into a self-governed vertical village—a hub for frontier technologies and creative arts. Tier-one labs presenting AI, Ethereum, biotech, neuroscience, longevity, robotics, human flourishing, and arts & music. These floors will house innovators and creators pushing the boundaries of human potential in a post-AI-singularity world.

Apply here for founding citizenship: https://frontiertower.io/apply

Why should I become a citizen?

Be part of creating the first self-governed vertical village

Connect with the most creative people in the city

Get access to all floors, free event space & movement floor

Website: https://frontiertower.io/

Need more reading? Visit https://frontiertower.notion.site/

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