Physical AI Meetup

## Physical AI NYC – Where Generative Models Meet the Real World

Physical AI NYC is a meetup for builders, researchers, roboticists, and creative technologists exploring the frontier where AI interacts with the physical world. We bring together people working across robotics, simulation, 3D generative models, vision-language-action systems, synthetic data, digital twins, and embodied intelligence.
Our mission is to create the leading community in New York for anyone pushing the boundaries of how AI perceives, reasons about, and acts within physical environments—from real-time 3D graphics to robot control pipelines and multimodal agents.

### Who This Is For

• Robotics founders & engineers
• AI researchers (vision, LLMs, multimodal, RL, VLA, autonomy)
• 3D/graphics developers (Omniverse, OpenUSD, Blender, Unity, Unreal)
• Simulation & digital-twin practitioners
• Artists and designers working with embodied generative models
• Investors looking at embodied AI, robotics, and physical automation
• Students and early-career technologists curious about emerging AI systems

### What We Do

• Hands-on workshops (Comfy3D, Blender pipelines, Isaac Sim, Omniverse)
• Talks & panels with researchers, robotics companies, and AI labs
• Show-and-tell nights where members demo models, robots, pipelines
• Founder + researcher mixers to help early teams form and get feedback
• Collaboration sessions around datasets, GPU workflows, digital humans, 3D reconstruction, VLA policies, and physical simulation

### Our Focus Areas

• Sim-to-real robotics
• Vision-language-action (VLA) models
• 3D generative models (Hunyuan3D, FLUX 3D, Gaussian splatting, NeRFs)
• OpenUSD and real-time simulation
• Multi-agent physical environments
• Real-time depth and perception models
• Digital twins for robotics and automation
• Interactive AI systems in XR, games, and creative tools

### Why NYC?

New York is rapidly becoming a global hub for AI, robotics, and computational arts—with a growing concentration of labs, founders, and creative technologists. Physical AI NYC exists to connect these threads and accelerate the next generation of embodied AI startups and research.