February Meetup

Schedule

• Develop cross-platform Applications using Kivy
• Apache Iceberg
• Embodied Intelligence: Teaching Robots to Perceive and Act
• Lightning talks (5 mins/talk)

Summary

Develop cross-platform Applications using Kivy

Speaker: Praveen

To give an overview of cross-platform application development using the Kivy framework in Python such as,
• Kivy architecture: event loop, widgets, rendering pipeline
• Build steps for Windows, Linux, and Android
• Live demo: simple GUI application running on multiple platforms
• Graphics demo: OpenGL 3D app with complete source code explanation.

Apache Iceberg

Speaker: Guru

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Embodied Intelligence: Teaching Robots to Perceive and Act

Speaker: Prabakaran

Robots are moving beyond scripted automation toward true embodied intelligence powered by AI models. We explore how multimodal foundation models enable machines to perceive their environment, reason through language, and execute meaningful physical actions in the real world.

• Robotics before LLM era
• Recent developments: Embodied Intelligence
• Scaling embodied intelligence
• Robotics frameworks - LeRobot
• Industry trends and how to get started

Talk at Chennaipy

We have three 20 mins talk slots. The talks are filled by first come first serve basis. Lightning talks will be at the end of the meetup. As long as we have time, there is no limit for number of lightning talks.
If you are interested in doing a talk (20 min) or lightning talk (5 mins), please add a comment to this event page with your topic and Description.

Note:
We understand that your schedule might change and you are unable to attend the meetup, in that case consider UNRSVP. So that folks in waiting list will get a chance to attend the meetup.

Talk Submission Reference:

1. Talk 1 was submitted on January meetup page comments.