[XEvent] Queensland AI: Is hardware hard? Building scalable embodied AI

Event is hybrid! (in person and stream: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_E-S54HPIQnOUfmlq6Qc4WQ )

"Along with holding this week's event in person, we'll also be streaming the event via Zoom for those who cannot attend. If you will be watching online, please ensure you have not RSVPed to the in-person event (so your spot can be given to someone else), and head to this link to register for the event: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_E-S54HPIQnOUfmlq6Qc4WQ "

Queensland AI hosts the event, please sign up there if you want to attend in person: https://www.meetup.com/Queensland_AI/events/276512243/

This month we're joined by well-known roboticist Juxi Leitner to talk about some of the work he and the team at Brisbane-based Lyro Robotics (https://lyro.io) are producing. The talk will focus on three aspects of hardware enable AI startups:

• How to design, develop, and deploy embodied AI systems (and how to scale them!)
• Lessons learned when transferring innovative technology from research into deployments.
• The Australian issues, funding caveats and other pains for early stage companies.
  PLUS: there will be videos of robots!

About Juxi:
Juxi has extensive experience in robotics, AI, and entrepreneurship. He is Cofounder and Managing Director of LYRO Robotics, a Brisbane-based, venture-backed company building smart robots to help overcome the labour shortage in the supply chain. Juxi started his first venture at age 15 in Austria and has spent the better part of the last two decades in research and academia with short stints in industry.

Before starting LYRO in 2019, Juxi was leading the robotics manipulation efforts at the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision (ACRV), most notably leading Team ACRV to victory in the Amazon Robotics Challenge 2017. He has authored 100+ publications and is known globally as a leading researcher in robotic vision, learning, and grasping.

Date: Thursday 4th of March
6pm - Doors open, networking with drinks & food
6:30pm - Talk starts, followed by Q&A
7:30pm - Further networking
Venue Limit: Due to COVIDSafe restrictions the venue is limited to 79 attendees and we will be turning away anyone beyond this number. Please only RSVP if you are able to make it on the night, and if you have RSVPed but are unable to make the event in person, please update your RSVP to ensure someone else can take your spot.

Note: Please stay at home if unwell or have a cough, fever, sore throat, fatigue, shortness of breath, or any other COVID-19 symptoms.