Rust NYC: Rust in Robotics & Isograph

Join us on Tuesday, October 14th at our NEW VENUE - DataDog in TImes Square. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. to give attendees plenty of time to grab pizza and socialize, and the talks begin at 7:30 p.m.

Required: You must have your real name on your account and provide a photo ID at the entrance to attend, per the venue rules. If you are not on the list, you will not be admitted due to the building security policy.

Talk 1 — Guillaume Binet - CEO at Copper Robotics - Bridging Robotics and Systems Programming: Why Copper is a Gamechanger

As robotics systems grow more complex, integrating specialists like algorithm developers, machine learning engineers, and control experts can be challenging—especially when relying on traditional languages and frameworks like C++ & ROS.

In this talk, I’ll share my journey of building Copper, a robot runtime designed to address these integration hurdles. Rust provides both systems-level performance and safety, overcoming issues like concurrency and undefined behavior while remaining accessible to developers less experienced in low-level programming.

Through real-world examples and code snippets, you’ll see how Copper can streamline robotics development, making it more integrated, efficient, and reliable.

Guillaume Binet Bio: Guillaume Binet, Founder of Copper Robotics, brings 25 years of tech experience, with 10 years focused on robotics. Before founding Copper Robotics, he was the CTO at Skyways (drones), VP of CORE Platforms at Motional (autonomous driving), and VP of Onboard Infrastructure at Argo AI (autonomous driving). When Guillaume is not working heads down on his startup, he likes to restore old electronics (family computers and pinballs), scuba dive and race cars.

Talk 2 — Robert Balicki - Principal Engineer at Pinterest - Isograph

"Robert will present about rewriting the Isograph compiler from being a batch compiler to an incremental compiler, and how that new architecture also naturally powers the language server.
Isograph is a framework for writing data-driven apps that are stable and performant out of the box. (Join the discord)"

Lawrence Harvey is Rust NYC's official recruitment partner, with Ross providing support as a co-organizer and financial support.

Huge thanks to Datadog who will be covering the cost of food and drink for the evening as well as providing the venue!