Foundation models are leaving the cloud — and entering the physical world.
Robotics is quietly becoming the next global ecosystem.
Open-source foundation models. End-to-end learning. Industrial-grade reliability.
And radically new ways of building robotic bodies.
This meetup is special because we’re not just talking theory.
We’re bringing together speakers from:
• Hugging Face — powering one of the world’s leading open AI ecosystems, now expanding into open-source robotics
• mimic robotics — building scalable, real-world robotic manipulation systems for industrial deployment
• Allonic — reinventing how robotic bodies are manufactured through its 3D Tissue Braiding technology, recently raised €6M in pre-seed funding — the largest hardware pre-seed round in Hungary to date
This event is powered by ShareTech Foundation — a non-profit initiative building bridges between frontier technology, industry, and the European tech ecosystem.
This event venue is provided by Tulip Interfaces a manufacturing app platform empowering frontline teams with digital tools and real-time data.
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📅 Date & Time: March 5. 2026, 17:30
📍 Location: Tulip Interfaces Office - Budapest, Köztelek u. 6, 1092
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🎤 The Talks
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Dana Aubakirova
ML Research Engineer — Hugging Face
Open-Source Robotics: Bringing Foundation Models to Real Robots
From Vision–Language–Action models to real robotic deployment.
Dana will walk us through:
- How foundation models are reshaping robotics
- Multimodal pretraining and scaling trends
- SmolVLA and the LeRobot open-source ecosystem
- Community-driven robot data collection
- What still blocks large-scale embodied AI
If you care about open-source AI moving into the physical world — this one’s for you.
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Benedek Forrai
Co-Founder & Lead Roboticist — mimic robotics
Systems as Moat — Bringing Reliability into End-to-End Learning
End-to-end learning is exciting.
Industrial reliability is harder.
Benedek shares:
- VLA → VAM evolution
- Scaling pretraining without massive robot datasets
- Architectural bottlenecks in current pipelines
- Why system design becomes the true competitive moat
This is where research meets customer-grade deployment.
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Benedek Tasi
Founder & CEO — Allonic
Complexity in Robotic Bodies — And Making Them Simple Enough for Mass Production
As robot intelligence scales, hardware complexity explodes.
Allonic introduces 3D Tissue Braiding — a radically new way of “growing” robotic bodies in a single integrated process.
We’ll explore:
- Bio-inspired robotic connective structures
- Reducing hundreds of parts into unified builds
- Manufacturing scalability for the next robotics wave
This is how you build robots that can actually scale.
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🕓 Agenda
17:30 — Arrival & welcome
18:00 — Talks
20:00 — Community networking
21:00 — Wrap-up
🚀 Why You Should Come
Because robotics is no longer sci-fi.
It’s becoming infrastructure.
And the next big shift in AI will be embodied.
Join us if you’re into:
- AI & foundation models
- Robotics & manipulation
- Industrial systems
- Hardware innovation
- Or just want to see where this is all heading
As always: high-signal talks, real practitioners, strong community.
See you there.
ShareTech.Foundation is building Europe’s next-generation tech communities — from AI and robotics to hardware prototyping and cross-border collaboration.
*Please note: 🇬🇧 All presentations will be conducted in English to welcome our growing number of international members.
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