Bay Area Frontier Research Club #27 | Embodied AI (dinner + paper discussion @ Mission Robotics)

The Frontier Research Club is a curated forum for rigorous, technical discussion at the frontier of AI. We convene researchers from the frontier labs, Stanford, Berkeley, and the teams building in production to examine concrete work — papers, methods, and results — with a bias toward assumptions, evaluation methodology, failure modes, and what would count as convincing evidence. Presentations are intentionally brief so the majority of time is reserved for questions and critique. Materials are shared in advance so the conversation starts at depth. Agenda 5:30pm: Doors open5:30pm – 6:30pm: Networking + light dinner6:30pm – 8:00pm: Research presentations + discussion8:00pm – 8:30pm: Networking Presenters & topics Talk 1 — TBA Talk 2 — TBA Want to present your work? If you have a research paper you’d like to discuss at one of our next sessions, please submit it for consideration. ​Submit your paper here! Who should attend Robotics researchers and research engineers People training or deploying policies on real hardware — manipulation, humanoids, VLA, sim-to-real, world models Efficient-inference, edge, and systems people who count watts and milliseconds for a living Researchers curious about what neuroscience actually has to offer AI — and vice versa Founders and engineers building tooling for robot data, simulation, and evaluation Capacity is limited. We will take photos and short video clips for event recap and promotion. By attending, you consent to being photographed and recorded, and to the use of those images and clips by the organizers on social media and other event marketing channels. 🌐 Connect with Frontier Research Club Luma Calendar: luma.com/frontiersyndicate YouTube: youtube.com/@FrontierResearchClub LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/frontier-research-club Instagram: @frontierresearchclub Email: [email protected] Hosted by Frontier Syndicate is a venture community connecting frontier tech researchers, builders, and investors through curated convenings and early-stage capital. Across the Bay Area, we host a recurring series of research forums, builder nights, and intimate investor dinners — and back exceptional companies emerging from the labs, communities, and technical networks we convene.​Mission Robotics is 8,500 square feet in the heart of the Mission — a converted brick-and-timber factory, hardwired for hardware, where founders at the frontier of embodied AI build alongside more than a dozen robots. Home to humanoids, robot arms, a shared data-collection rig, and a frontier world model on tap, it's purpose-built for the people teaching machines to act in the physical world.