Developing A.I / Machine Learning systems ... optionally with Robots

Note: For June, due to the long weekend, the meeting has been shifted to Monday 16th June 2025

Attention: The world-wide Hugging Face LeRobot hack-a-thon will be held on the weekend of June 14th and 15th. There will be a local Melbourne technical support event for those wishing to compete and form teams, hosted by MLAI AUS. Tickets (AUS$10 to cover events costs, catering, etc) are limited and running out.

Web-site: https://ai-ml-robots.github.io
Discussions: https://tinyurl.com/ai-ml-robots-discussions
Pre-meeting catch-up: 6:00 pm at Fonda Mexican restaurant, 248 Swan Street, Richmond (our table will have orange traffic cones) ... great opportunity for casual discussion and especially for newcomers to get acquainted with the group

Rough agenda: 7:00 pm at 415 Church Street, Richmond
- 7:00 pm ML software "guided" build session and LeRobot hack-a-thon retrospective
- 9:30 pm Projects show and tell: ad-hoc for anyone to contribute
- 9:45 pm Tidy up room
- 10:00 pm Hard stop !

Please bring a laptop, as these are hands-on sessions.
Just think of a laptop as a robot without wheels or legs !
If you are a newcomer to Machine Learning or robotics, you are still very welcome.
If you do have a robot, please bring it along !