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The Deployment Moat: A Physical AI Industry Panel
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| With Robert Scoble (Founder, Unaligned), Ruslan Bekbulatov (Investment Principal, Bosch Ventures), Saman Farid (Founder/CEO, Formic), Evan Tao (Founder/CEO, Chestnut Robotics), Natalia Kokoromyti (CEO, Cybernetic Physics), Judah Longgrear (President of Media, Robot.com), Rajesh Senthil Kumar (Head of Product and Deployment, RLWRLD). |
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Oct 29 (Thu) @ 06:00 PM
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Is Deployment the Real Moat in Physical AI?
What does it really take to deploy robots at scale, & can deployment become a lasting competitive advantage?
As robotics foundation models & hardware continue to advance, real-world deployment remains one of the industry's biggest challenges.
What separates a successful demo from a scalable business? Is the real moat in the technology, the deployment expertise, the operational data, or the customer relationships built along the way?
Join Embodied Collective for an intimate, curated industry conversation bringing together robotics companies, deployment practitioners, & enterprise adopters to exchange firsthand insights & explore what it takes to scale Physical AI in the real world.
What We'll Explore
The Deployment Bottleneck: What's actually preventing robots from scaling beyond pilots?
The Enterprise Perspective: What do industrial buyers really need before deploying robotics solutions?
Deployment as a Moat: Can real-world experience, data, & operational capabilities create sustainable competitive advantages?
Scaling in Practice: What does it take to make robotics deployments repeatable, reliable, & commercially viable?
Confirmed Speakers
Robert Scoble | Founder, Unaligned (Opening Fireside)
Robert has spent decades on the front lines of tech, from Microsoft to eight books about the future. He now tracks AI & robotics daily at Unaligned & AlignedNews.com, & visits the teams building them, giving him a rare view of what's actually running in the real world versus what's still a demo.
Ruslan Bekbulatov | Investment Principal, Bosch Ventures
Ruslan brings a unique perspective at the intersection of industrial customers & venture investing, engaging with both sides on technology capabilities, technical specifications, deployment timelines, & commercial considerations. (Views expressed are his own & do not represent Bosch or Bosch Ventures.)
Saman Farid | Founder & CEO, Formic
Saman runs Formic, which puts robots to work in American factories, & has an active & growing fleet deployed in 150 factories. In bringing Physical AI to the real world, his team has built infrastructure & software to handle deployment, monitoring & maintenance so manufacturers can automate without large upfront costs. Before Formic, he was a Partner at Baidu Ventures, leading investments in AI companies transforming traditional industries, & he founded Robots for America to advance U.S. robotics deployment policy.
Evan Tao | Co-founder & CEO, Chestnut Robotics
Formerly a core member of Tesla's Optimus team, Evan brings extensive robotics hardware experience from Tesla, Apple, & ASML. At Chestnut Robotics, he is advancing dexterous manipulation through hardware & human demonstration co-design, focusing on making robotic systems more reliable, scalable, & deployment-ready.
Natalia Kokoromyti | Co-founder & CEO, Cybernetic Physics
A Stanford computer scientist, Natalia previously worked as a researcher in Stanford's Scaling Intelligence Lab, where she contributed to KernelBench, & worked on confidential computing at Lucid Computing. At Cybernetic Physics, an a16z speedrun company, she is building an intelligence lab for real-world machines. The company owns the hard part of putting robots to work, from bridging sim-to-real gaps & integrating robots on-site to policy serving, teleoperation, & ongoing operations, so autonomous systems can run reliably on real floors.
Judah Longgrear | Co-Founder & President of Media, Robot.com
Judah leads Robot.com's media business, R-Ads, building a first-of-its-kind robotic media network from the company's global fleet & digital out-of-home network. Robot.com is a Physical AI platform deploying autonomous robots across delivery, logistics, advertising, & security. A serial entrepreneur, Judah has spent nearly a decade building at the intersection of mobility, adtech, & robotics.
Rajesh Senthil Kumar | Head of Product & Deployment, RLWRLD
Rajesh leads product & deployment at RLWRLD, a Physical AI company developing RLDX-1, a dexterity-first robotics foundation model designed to enable human-like manipulation. By combining real-world industrial data with advanced robot learning, RLWRLD is tackling complex manipulation tasks across manufacturing, logistics, & service environments. Rajesh brings a practical perspective on bridging foundation model capabilities with real-world deployment & commercialization.
More robotics foundation model & deployment speakers to be announced!
Who Should Join?
We're especially looking to connect with:
Robotics Deployment Companies: Founders & operators building & deploying robotics solutions in real-world environments.
Enterprise Buyers & Adopters: Manufacturing, logistics, industrial, & other organizations actively deploying, piloting, or evaluating robotics technologies.
System Integrators & Deployment Partners: Teams working directly on robotics integration, implementation, & operations.
Our goal is to bring the people building & deploying robotics together with the businesses adopting them - creating a focused, high-signal conversation around real challenges, practical insights, & potential collaborations.
Agenda
6:00 - 6:30 PM | Networking
6:30 - 6:40 PM | Welcome from Embodied Collective
6:40 - 6:50 PM | Opening Fireside: What's Actually Running, & What's Still a Demo, with Robert Scoble (Unaligned)
6:50 - 7:35 PM | Panel 1 Who Owns the Moat? Deployment as Competitive Advantage, with Ruslan Bekbulatov (Bosch Ventures), Judah Longgrear (Robot.com) & Saman Farid (Formic)
7:35 - 7:45 PM | Changeover
7:45 - 8:30 PM | Panel 2 From Demo to Floor: Breaking the Deployment Bottleneck, with Rajesh Senthil Kumar (RLWRLD), Natalia Kokoromyti (Cybernetic Physics) & Evan Tao (Chestnut Robotics)
8:30 - 9:00 PM | Open Networking
Snacks & Drinks are provided!
About Embodied Collective
Embodied Collective is a global community connecting robotics startups, researchers, & industry leaders to accelerate Physical AI commercialization, real-world deployment, & strategic partnerships.
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