Updated: Sep 30, 2026 at 4:28 AM PT

# Robotics and hardware events at SF Tech Week 2026

> Robotics and hardware account for 159 of the 1832 SF Tech Week 2026 listings, from Monday, Oct 5 to Monday, Oct 12, and 90% need an approved application.

Chancity tracks 1,832 SF Tech Week events (updated Sep 30, 2026); this page lists 159. Sources: the official Tech Week calendar (https://www.tech-week.com/calendar/sf) and each event's own page.

## At a glance

- More daytime than most topics: 48% start in the evening.
- Hosting is spread thin. No single host runs more than 4.
- SoMa leads with 29 events.

## Subscribe

- Calendar feed (ICS, new events appear automatically): https://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/robotics-hardware/calendar.ics
- Webcal: webcal://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/robotics-hardware/calendar.ics

## Events

Columns: Time is Pacific time. Access: RSVP means a plain RSVP, Apply means the host approves each guest. Status: open, waitlist, closed or sold out, from the official Tech Week calendar. Food and Drinks: the host's own words ("mentions", not a promise). Price: only where the listing shows a price; a dash means no price listed. Featured: featured on the official Tech Week calendar.

| Date | Time | Event | Host | Area | Access | Status | Food | Price | Featured | RSVP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon, Oct 5 | 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM | Physical AI Series A founders & CVCs Breakfast | Raisable, Vasyl Dub, Sacha | Downtown | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/e116G5oDSjhCjQjBVVxi?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM | Robots & Hardware Coffee @Tesla Showroom | Leverage | Civic Center | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/cZeYjS7jFMT3xTv7PGSi?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 9 AM | AGI, Inc. Store - Wearables Pop-up | AGI, Inc., Juliana Chyzhova, Chaitanya (CK) Khot, Jordan Ruppert | Mission | Apply | open | Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/oZm5m0LpvJi2ziHpN1fO?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 9 AM to 11 AM | Hardware Founders and Builders Breakfast | Byteforge Systems, Utsav | SoMa | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/GUyVdHdlOrBVlsWwt6xI?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 9 AM to 12:45 PM | Physical AI Hackathon: From Idea to Factory | One Culture Foundation, xinye lin, echo | Embarcadero | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ng6oAlWJQrqtoCB65Vem?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 11:30 AM to 10 PM | FARR Summit Oct 5th | FARR Summit, Soha Zadeh, Suzanne Zadeh | - | Apply | open | - | From $250 | - | [Apply](https://luma.com/FARRsummit?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 12 PM to 3:30 PM | Zero Day: Physical AI + Security - Seed Pitch & Live Demo | Digital Garage, Inc., Sera Tsutsumi, Colin, DG Incubation, Nikos Liodakis, Open Network Lab | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/V3dzumUhXBJNj8b9rAdS?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 2:30 PM to 4:45 PM | Robot Show-n-Tell | SFSC, Stephen Willis | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/pLaphnYLZ4pDKyWNdu9A?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 3 PM to 6 PM | Robotics, AI Infra & Physical AI Startup Pitch Competition | AWS+ Fundraising bootcamp, Dasha, Matviy Kruglov, Lea Twizer | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/awBW20xzbXQOmY0M731R?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 3 PM to 5 PM | ZEN VR EVENT | NeuralPort Inc., Anna Shimafuji, Pam Luna Mallea, Fuma Hayashi | FiDi | RSVP | sold out | - | - | - | [View](https://partiful.com/e/xvfwiUVGlQSqHBeca3iP?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 5 PM to 8 PM | AI Beyond the Screen | House of 434, Shilpi Nayak, Mattie Fairchild | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/jpm7z2Y4Ja02KSZj2JrH?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 5 PM to 7 PM | Seamaphore Open House | Seamaphore, J-Ro, Alex Higby | Mission Bay | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/X8QC9tOiYpfa0SEljfZQ?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Field Trips: Family Movie Night | Gigascale Capital, Merrill Feather, Aaron Bernstein | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/4O5SjUTp6CmTX0yvROWV?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 5:45 PM to 9 PM | 🤖 Towards AGI: solving physical AI | Cognitive Intelligence Company, Osama F Rama | - | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/CPToyBIGynlg6DqstdiI?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 7 PM to 11 PM | FARR Summit After Party | FARR Summit, Suzanne Zadeh, SoHa, Jorn Lyseggen, Summer Chiu, SHACK15 | Embarcadero | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/gp4BmjrV3OU5Cs68Yuas?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM | How AI Is Transforming the Physical World - Breakfast Panel | Business Sweden, Ellen Dahlfors, Cody Lin | FiDi | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/JszURletzLmuWrwnRkT5?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 8:30 AM to 1 PM | Silicon Valley-APAC Industrial Innovation Bridge | Pavina Adunratanasee, Ryan D Taylor, Yuki Sekiguchi, Keyi Kang Yao | SoMa | Apply | open | - | Free | - | [Apply](https://luma.com/1e7nxcr0?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 9 AM | Made in SF: Breakfast Burritos & Hardware | Vulcury Venture Studio and Advisors, Vulcury, Cullen Hilkene, Divyansh Agarwal | Mission | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/BYImaBtsAHxQOlpOIabi?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 9 AM to 11 AM | Robotics & Frontier Labs × Investors Breakfast (Amino Capital, Five Star Bank, Haynes Boone) | Amino Capital, Sue Xu | FiDi | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ecIQ60Ren6pRGaUN5NQx?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 9:30 AM to 11 AM | Built World Breakfast | Reveille VC, Nixon Peabody, Pete Mathias, Brooke Furst | Embarcadero | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/iwDCsJr2wPCzW6C8ZcNj?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 9:30 AM | Made in SF: Breakfast Burritos & Hardware | Trustbridge, Shreya Nischal | SoMa | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/HPU0JzYQgSmsTKr3AEiQ?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 10 AM to 1 PM | AI Visionaries Forum | AWS for Startups | FiDi | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Q3cYt55IgBwTZvFytDc1?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 10:30 AM to 12 PM | 1 to Physical Intelligence with Sergey Levine | SPC accounts | South Beach | Apply | open | - | Free | - | [Apply](https://luma.com/sergey-spc?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 11 AM to 2 PM | Hiring Event: Scale the Future of mmWave Tech with Elve | Elve, Vanessa Bentley | South Beach | Apply | open | Lunch | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/OdzirZQ99YC3I76if9xH?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 11 AM | Investors at the Cutting Edge - GP/LP Luncheon (Deep Tech) | Actuate Ventures, Andrew Woodfield | - | Apply | open | Lunch | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/tdHkRg3z7ablmEnlzG6L?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 11 AM | Unstable Foundations: The Future Stack - Power, Compute, and Physical AI | JLL Spark Global Ventures, Goodwin, Goodwin, JLL Spark, and Anderson, Raj Singh | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/QP49YJuuAmy6CoBUo4rg?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 12 PM to 2 PM | Frontier labs × investors lunch (Amino Capital & UBS) | Amino Capital, Sue Xu | Embarcadero | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/eeMU2dG95LNLE0M4ABFl?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 2 PM to 5 PM | TFOT: 🌎🇺🇸Global Innovation Showcase Scaling AI & Deep Tech at War Memorial | The Future of Texh, The Future of Tech | Civic Center | RSVP | open | Snacks, Drinks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/yoGsqjwZ70zOBJCXsRbW?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 2 PM | What did our AI Agent do?! The Missing Runtime Authorization Layer for Agents and Physical AI | OtisLabs.ai, Marina Piller | Virtual | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/MHuXq8tqpEACMCMPWjnp?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 3 PM | Autonomous Vehicles and Public Transit: Bridging the Gap | Future Mobility, Swedish Consulate-General San Francisco, USA, Jan Hellaker, Billy | Embarcadero | RSVP | open | Snacks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/LNsZT1GvSDWtKmYMtnug?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 3 PM | Defense & Deep Tech: Investing at the Forefront | TriplePoint Capital, PitchBook, Alvin Kim | Dogpatch | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/HsRp4g639Iu7tKrr9HsX?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 4 PM to 6 PM | State of Industrial AI: The Missing Link to Large-Scale Adoption | Essentia Ventures, Marco | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/fTSrzzr75NUUsBWcbIPO?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 5 PM to 7 PM | Hardware Engineering Happy Hour | MathWorks | SoMa | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/lkHwyckTjdK41YOIB3Br?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 5 PM to 8 PM | Robotics x AI Pitch & Wine by DigitalOcean and Catalyst Bay | Catalyst Bay, Oleksandra Kviatkovska, Alina Blyzniuk, Jacqueline Adami | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/77nr2ZLJBqO1M5wpTyIZ?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 5 PM to 8 PM | Smart Fleet Meet & Greet | OpenMind, Bay Area Robotics Association, Prachi Sethi, jun, hayeon y, Terence Bennett | Downtown | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/MXdZ2h4NRXDoF7dtSakX?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 5:30 PM to 9 PM | From 0 to 100,000 Devices | intent, Acorn PD, Nordic Semiconductor, Filip Pietraszkiewicz, Wojciech Borkowski, Tony Lehmann | Union Square | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/zlysjwxlpsuqHwaPdwO7?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 5:30 PM | Houston, We Have No Cloud: Build Your AI for the Moon | Liquid AI, ZETIC, Viviana Márquez, Seongjun Kim, Rishabh Chauhan | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/kzDyZMh8g9rdbuuFviyh?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Physical AI Innovation Showcase with SAP and Plug and Play | SAP, Plug and Play, Brenda, Lakshmi Devi KPV, Jakob Thumm, Kishor | SoMa | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/9rAojQYGqOIy0lQHY8cB?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 5:30 PM | Robotics Happy Hour with LiveKit & Dimensional | Dimensional, LiveKit, LiveKit Events | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/u610QKw40q4lh1MR5ZLJ?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 5:30 PM to 8 PM | Ulysses: Ocean Robotics | SF Blue Tech, Ulysses: The Ocean Company, martha blanchfield | South Beach | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/YjEDbWFdINGVV1UtlgGx?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 5:45 PM to 9 PM | 🤖 The ChatGPT Moment for Robotics | Cognitive Intelligence Company, Osama F Rama | East Bay | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/xf932qyXrYH0MLfy2mq2?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6 PM to 8 PM | Bridging Innovation & Defense: A special event for Defense Innovators at | RapidFort, Tracy Toschi, Austin Sedaghatpour | Marina | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/vmzI2Tf6Cnk89BfyEBaM?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6 PM | Building the New Space Economy | Katalyst Space, Makena Burns | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Q6QAZuwzfhPWjfUGeXtm?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6 PM to 8:30 PM | Designing for Physical AI: From Innovation Lab to Factory Floor | Swissnex in San Francisco, Sarah BK. Swissnex, Andrea Cross @Swissnex, Julia Kuhn Mirza | Mission Bay | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/WHfwx55GwbeRGaZb6Q6B?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6 PM | omakase compute dinner | Sixtytwo, Sonnet Xu, Yulia | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/j7k5LyRyyuuvxpkSegCj?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Physical AI Operators #02 - The Data Layer of Physical AI | Rachel Wang, Physical AI Operators Team, Jerry Huang, Robotics Center of Silicon Valley, Dr. Paul Fang | SoMa | Apply | open | - | Free | - | [Apply](https://luma.com/dm4r22pt?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6 PM to 7:30 PM | Quantum Tech Happy Hour | Azulene Labs, Wavepeak Ventures, Nicolas Sawaya, Eric Hall, Anugraha | Downtown | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/C8mXk7AmQhZxOEermHoa?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Robotics Data & Commercialization | Physical AI Operators, Robotics Center of Silicon Valley, Rachel Wang | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/EhStPQqUj2hxuOFyYYNc?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6:30 PM to 9 PM | Industrial Tech After Dark | Tandem, Hitachi Ventures, Kunal Jain, Somil Singh, MistyWest / Sophie Salmon, Avery Kayle, Reed Smith, kosara tsoneva | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/RWCaBcZPAnrxnn9M5qke?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM | Physical AI Happy Hour, hosted by CoreWeave | CoreWeave, Sacha G, Sasha Manuilova, Hannah Reid, JM | Cow Hollow | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Z2JcaSjMuPo5UZe8Lq86?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 7 PM to 10 PM | Contextful After Party | Sebastian Chapela, Dave C. Younts, Seed2Table Director of Events | Alameda | Apply | sold out | - | Free | - | [View](https://luma.com/q24t8t4v?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 7 PM to 11:30 PM | Frontier Research in World Model | Tripo, Aiko Dai, Hokin Deng, Haina | Downtown | Apply | closed | - | - | - | [View](https://partiful.com/e/FkmeaGg4Yghs1iH7etiN?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 7 PM | In-Space Manufacturing Demo Day | Small Steps & Giant Leaps, Alder | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/7nfqkmoBCMmQ3OE14XwP?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 8 PM | Physical AI Paper Club & Science Dinner | Cinnamon Sipper, Cinnamon | Embarcadero | Apply | open | Dinner | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/qjJA7wmf7QgAwxuNqe1v?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 7:45 AM to 9:30 AM | HardTech Run & Coffee Meetup | MistyWest, SEACOMP, MistyWest / Sophie Salmon, SEACOMP - Sarah H, Dave K | Golden Gate Park | Apply | open | Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/mnSEOThDag4hwgwuIOuY?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 9 AM | Build Better 2026 | Instrumental Inc, Sara, Sukhman Sahota | East Bay | Apply | open | - | From $100 | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/L0GUED8gq25VMRRf8oDY?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 9 AM to 12 PM | Investing in the Physical Future | Plug and Play, SVB | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/4FOmkpw7GhDPyoI88h1B?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM | Pancakes* with Pensa: A Forum for Leaders of Hardware Startups | Pensa, Karen Amodio, Adwoa Agyeman | - | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/uV5j3zsaepUHfPWhUJvP?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 9:30 AM to 12 PM | Scaling Beneficial General Intelligence - A Morning with BGI - Labs | BGI Labs, Jordan Wagner, Aaron Poppie, Haley Lowy, Alex Domecq | SoMa | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/89KihRL3L93GARbV9lEb?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 9:30 AM | SF Mornings: Investor Breakfast | Trustbridge, Shreya Nischal | SoMa | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/3Du6qCa0HEgCmzce9htp?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 11 AM | Embodied Intelligence Challenge | Cinnamon Sipper, Cinnamon | Embarcadero | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/PY0xU0oX4W5FSQI8qgyq?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 11 AM | Physical AI's Last Mile: Hardware and Data Together | InnerPlant, The Good Marchine, Good Machine | Dogpatch | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/mUsgR10YAnPtpzvKoij2?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 12 PM to 4 PM | ATOMS ACCELERATED: Industrial AI & the Next Industrial Buildout | DeepMechanix, Funding Breakthrough Lab, Aman Thakkar | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/OCl7s4r3aSlPSZudaSYB?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 12 PM | Flying Car eVTOL challenges and potential talk | INVO STATION, FONDO, Leo Kayali, Diane, CPO @ Fondo, Danylo Borodchuk | Salesforce Park | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/nFRFs9xYUzmkjHFxWNhm?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 12 PM to 3:30 PM | MEET LILA | LILA Sciences, Jonathan Earle, Mary, Mackenzie Wild, Karim | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/jxtyCAqL4xcVT5dw9PbT?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 1 PM to 4 PM | The New Building Blocks of Hardware | Hardware Velocity, Mike Pica | Dogpatch | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/zQFy1PzMn4A1pnZBQpFE?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM | Physical AI for Critical Infrastructure: From Data Centers to Airports & Power Plants | Ease My Ai Pvt Ltd, GAgan Randhawa | - | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/TKRm5Cr8Ppp013S9Juf9?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM | Physical AI in the Real World | RLWRLD, Niantic Spatial, Carl, Carmen Goldstein, Dae Jang, Karthik Krish, Jay Shin | Embarcadero | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/WYazonn02xeiSz9xoRwu?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 3 PM | Embodied AI ≠ Robotics | xVibe AI, DaoBrew, RoRoll, Neo | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/6A07TfJAH7Lley6MVjUD?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 3 PM to 6 PM | From Exit to LP: Founders & Family Offices Deploying Into AI | Geek Ventures, Sarah Romanko, Alexander Zemlyak, Ihar Mahaniok | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Cb4NR1ZyEcSWhTsLZVQx?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 3 PM to 6 PM | Pax Silica Hackathon | BuilderBase, Sean Chiu, Sam Karri, Claire Xie, Miranda, Sean C | FiDi | RSVP | open | - | Free | - | [RSVP](https://luma.com/builde-q0bj?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 3 PM to 5 PM | UK Founder Pitch | British Consulate SF, British Consulate-General SF, Siobhan Nuseibeh, Scott Howard, Grainne Barron | Union Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/kFJfOsVu0eTf7Eagphcl?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 3 PM to 5 PM | ZEN VR EVENT | NeuralPort Inc., Anna Shimafuji, Pam Luna Mallea, Fuma Hayashi | FiDi | RSVP | waitlist | - | - | - | [View](https://partiful.com/e/QnKDU0GkmfgXmUEF1smK?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 4 PM to 7 PM | Beyond the Demo: How Physical AI Companies Make Real Money | TSVC, Covington, Charlene, Jett W | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/FCdCW2pW1RUAhNiE3Xoh?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 4 PM | Building AI Data Centers: Owners × Contractors | Jobotics, Skye | FiDi | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/lQzvejTA8nj9Je4Qqns9?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 4 PM | Embodied AI Happy Hour | Uthana Inc, Izza Vivo, Viren Tellis | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/lPS57LaHMRwdSZiGoW5t?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 4 PM to 6 PM | Physical AI Demo Day: Intelligence for the Real World | Spatial Capital, George Wu, Doug Griffin | Mission Bay | Apply | open | Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/dLVhaW7dfVIkXoE40Oaz?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 4 PM to 6 PM | Physical AI Happy Hour: Plug and Play x Wittington Ventures | Wittington Ventures, Plug and Play, Tarek El Naggar, Jerry, Yukino Suzuki | Hayes Valley | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/wEsNrKqVGgtmWFsOaMS0?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 4 PM to 7 PM | SE ASIA SF SALON #2 | Tech Brews, 500 Global, Khailee Ng, Samantha Lee, Charleston Wong, Ugly Talk HQ, UGLY TALK - AMY | Russian Hill | RSVP | open | Snacks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/JV9G2AMsKHNErDDvzpdz?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 4:30 PM | Waybox Car Wash | Waybox Inc, Waybox Inc. | Stanford | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ma821w70HqpSiFiHyeQf?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5 PM to 8 PM | Automotive x AI: The Future of Mobility | Catalyst Bay, Oleksandra Kviatkovska, Alina Blyzniuk, Jacqueline Adami | FiDi | Apply | closed | - | - | - | [View](https://partiful.com/e/XofV3MsDSjjM5ZBkCQej?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5 PM | Beyond Earth: The Aerospace Robotics and SpaceTech Fireside Discussion | Sobremesa, Sobremesa Events | Alamo Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/aB6pUivQ6e1yJ17QyAJC?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5 PM to 7 PM | Robotics model, hardware and data quick hang w/ Pixelstwo | Pixelstwo, Akshaj Jain | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/13YAGGHHLUfzSZzhex1B?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5 PM to 7 PM | The Hardware Layer of AI: Builders, Bits, and Physical Tech | Xometry, Emily Alpert | Embarcadero | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/cQFMFICpNWW3JMjVyVHx?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Austrian Demo Night | OPEN AUSTRIA, Michael Dobersberger | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/njY03zpyEBM2ArbULcel?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5:30 PM to 8 PM | Google for Startups & NVIDIA: Deep Tech x Deep House Happy Hour | Google for Startups, Monica, Victoria, Emily Duke, Brittney Glass | SoMa | Apply | open | Open bar | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/PyFVw6ENftBzf671ycQm?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Quantum in the next AI Supercomputer | Anyon Computing, NVIDIA, Wistron, Po-Hsin Huang, Jin | Embarcadero | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Zx0xcxGR1q18I2X5M1iD?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5:30 PM | 🤖 Robotics, Off the Record @Mission Robotics | PeKe Labs, Asma, Thane, Mattie Fairchild | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/TprLtwRJBJaBwIY6n3i1?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5:45 PM to 8 PM | 🤖 Is Data the Bottleneck for Embodied Agents? | Cognitive Intelligence Company, Osama F Rama | East Bay | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/5J7R9rHIEHplthtOTXiQ?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Canyon Innovation & Tech Summit | Canyon Bicycles | Cow Hollow | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/22YJdBDwnmopkMnOT94p?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM | Hardware Pitch Night @ S45 / 🩺Wearables for Health & Medicine | informal LLC, Nate!, Jocelin Zheng | Mission | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/m7BF3YTvCjL5IbM2hX4O?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Learning From Human Video & Scaling VLA Training | AJ Chan, HackerSquad, Iris Gani | South Beach | RSVP | open | - | Free | - | [RSVP](https://luma.com/learning-from-human-video?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM | SF Hardware & Robotics Showcase | Clarity Labs, Cushman & Wakefield, Pilot, Adyan Tanver, Bailee Esposito, Wyatt Thompson, Zac Yungblut | SoMa | RSVP | open | Snacks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/nb5OgG4Muhx5ENLSv0iR?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM to 10 PM | 🎹 LIVE CONCERT "Pursuit of Happiness": Demonstration of Whitney Device by Uhura Bionics at | Uhura Bionics, Konrad Zieliński | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/CiWnDUw4k3MeebEm4jmB?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6:30 PM | Flaying Cars SF Air Maps Launch | INVO STATION, FONDO, Leo Kayali, Diane, CPO @ Fondo, Danylo Borodchuk | Salesforce Park | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Q3BNhyo8wr6CkqKoqPTP?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 7 PM | Agentic AI Design & 3D Metal Printing - Precixion Dinner | Precixion Inc., Bala Jeldi | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/XndiiFAuAyvP0BI1eOQ4?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 7:30 PM | Sake & Whiskey lovers 🇺🇸🇯🇵. Tech mixer. | UrbanChain Group, Datasent, Vitaly, Mia Ong | Downtown | Apply | open | Snacks, Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/i4TuC10ejCWfGKKUoonD?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 9 AM | What's next in Physical Ai, Robotics & 3D with Solaya, NVIDIA, Google & Dassault Systems! | Solaya, Yasmine Turki, Massimo | SoMa | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/HO0qARGSZOffaw2Gmo8U?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 9:30 AM | Physical AI Playbook: From Prototype to Scale | Z21 Ventures and SVB, Silicon Valley Bank, Shachi, David Yoo | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ENY68RiP8kevcUgqQ0y0?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 10 AM | National Security + Space Innovation Summit / Fleet Week × SF Tech Week | VetsinTech, Kristopher Floyd, Katherine Webster | Northern Waterfront | Apply | open | Breakfast | From $99 | - | [Apply](https://luma.com/nssis?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 11 AM to 8 PM | More Worlds to Build: Spatial Intelligence & 3D Demo Day | Tripo, Aiko Dai, Articuler.ai | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/EBFwxX8lmHAe3zeoSx5r?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 12 PM | Robots, GTM & Pizzas | Magnus Robotics, Rachel Cheung | Downtown | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/XrCrUX2JLEa8CZKBfhiH?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 1 PM to 5:30 PM | Come Touch the Future: Hard Tech Expo with Third Sphere | Third Sphere, Miela Mayer, Shaun Abrahamson, Stonly | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/saw6fM3hd8YEuIHP9hUi?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 2 PM to 5:30 PM | ALSO TEST SPIN | ALSO | Hayes Valley | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/hBK3xzGOw76cd0BGnB8P?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 2 PM to 4 PM | Gaming for Impact - Gaming, Technology & Autism Innovation | Sirica Therapeutics, Uli K. Chettipally | - | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/mTF3aPFBnHU9dihtUSDe?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 3 PM to 8 PM | Neurotech Startup Village | Neurotech Futures, Naveen Rao | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/WJmx788TBX9hLw8WohBv?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 3 PM to 5 PM | Wings of Desire-Titan Gauntlets Demo | Department of Strategic Surprise, Titan Gauntlets, Haus of Hyte, Mickey McManus | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/nfIQX967M5xj1Br0GOt8?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 4 PM to 6 PM | Cybernetics: Bridging Human, Machine & Mind | HebberlyAhatlan.com, Hebberly Ahatlan | Pacific Heights | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/yso5EfGMIR2uySZh3tTL?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 4 PM | Intelligence Meets Matter: Found Before Founded | Hermenica Capital, Granatus Ventures | Union Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/z5rSWmhmj2Aig42nkAak?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 4 PM to 7 PM | R2S2R Arena Launch | IndustrialNext, Kathleen Quinn Steeves | SoMa | Apply | open | Snacks, Open bar | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/NTTIOqL7EtbaOYKhQ6Ro?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 4 PM | Underinvested or Overheated. A Live Debate On Physical AI. | Skye Air Mobility, Rajveer Singh | - | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/8VflkO49g5arIfodRTyv?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 5 PM to 8 PM | Building the Physical World with AI | Autodesk, Reer, Connie Hui | Downtown | Apply | open | Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/dAHuVfXdPXQ6pI46yt9Q?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 5 PM to 8:15 PM | Deep Tech Nexus | Omni Ventures, Sebastian Spitzer | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/lhB6B97E91kJdTSKAs17?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 5 PM to 8 PM | Devices x AI - Pitch Night | AGI, Inc., Juliana Chyzhova, Chaitanya (CK) Khot, Jordan Ruppert | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/bT6gNzQX7IIenumjzXyG?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 5 PM | Industry Night - Unlocking mmWave Power at Scale | Elve, Vanessa Bentley, Arnela Sinevod | South Beach | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/nzTYwslfpr4KxNdcWijH?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 5 PM to 8 PM | Next Stop Europe: Transatlantic Tech & AI Exchange | NRW.Global Business, CMS, Joerg Rose | SoMa | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/i5NRRQJEobL9JK0kASJ3?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 5 PM to 7 PM | Physical AI: Built for Change | Bright Machines, Bedrock Robotics, Eclipse Capital, Eclipse, Scott Purcell, Genesis | Union Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/FTv9uW7f9jpQhOf6DA2t?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 5 PM to 8 PM | Robots on the Rocks🍸 | Lorimer Ventures, Zach, Lavanya Shukla | - | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ET2suES1Bs09gIPZaPmU?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 5:30 PM | Consumer Tech Night/HAPPY HOUR (Free Food + Drinks) | Lenn AI, Ryan | Downtown | RSVP | open | Snacks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/apd5zPT2ssQysMfPnFnv?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 5:30 PM to 9 PM | Deployment Is the Moat with Jason Ma (Dyna Robotics) | Savant Ventures, Jeson Lee, April Liu, Moritz Schiebold | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/HBTLlZJitmBshf1Oufqb?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM | Open Circuit: The Founders Exhibit | Laminar, Berkeley Gateway Accelerator, Anar, Murry, Ryan D. Taylor, Chareeda Rustanavibul, Louisa Wallin Granbom | - | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/3Wq5hjd9iCfaFRWTZF8G?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 5:30 PM | Physical AI for the Built Environment | Stand Insurance | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/D3Nk3NFHRUvpRRfta46R?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Physical AI VC <> Founders Pitch Night @Mission Robotics | Raisable, Vasyl Dub, Sacha, Mattie Fairchild, Kateryna | Palo Alto | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/J83OkLfSCZsmT6DXJiKy?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 5:45 PM to 8 PM | 🤖 At the Frontier of Embodied Intelligence | Cognitive Intelligence Company, Osama F Rama | East Bay | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/P6M8fbhNZcJBOaXq2oxi?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Aerospace & Dual-Use Mixer | La French Tech San Diego, La French Tech San Francisco, Safran Corporate Ventures, Sylvie Almeri, Noemie Vauthelin, FTSF | - | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/FxAKAszRxaXer1cdj09i?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Beyond the Lab: CMU Deep Tech Founders | AI Valley, Victor Su-Ortiz | FiDi | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/uezD9lSeWUqoR598qf2O?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM to 10 PM | Frequency by Bolt: A Tech Festival (ft. Chantel Jeffries) | Unicorner, Bolt.new | Russian Hill | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Ic0OeX0EkPFKBDs4BRwa?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM to 8 PM | Hard Tech Happy Hour: Commanding the Physical World | Revel | FiDi | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/N9m7Uptg14BrPwE93ISw?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM | 138th SF Hardware Meetup @ Flux AI / Reindustrialize America | SF Hardware Meetups, michael raspuzzi, Mariana Ortiz, Miguel Villafuerte | SoMa | RSVP | waitlist | Snacks | - | - | [View](https://partiful.com/e/IzYgcg3RiIaWqi96wVpW?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6:30 PM | Exclusive dinner: Meet the top Industrial AI startups (a16z speedrun) | Sotant, ScaleDrive AI, Mariana Aristizabal, Eduardo Candela | Castro | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/H4Dc4QWDieORJtJgKQeg?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM | South Asians in Physical AI | american south asian network | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/EJARVHhguO8ptpEU2Tfz?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 7 PM to 9 PM | Night Shift at Mytra | Mytra, Holly Meers | - | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/UQMk1qJQQQ7oO8yg62Jc?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 7 PM | Sieve Multimodal & Physical AI Dinner | Sieve, Sieve AI | FiDi | Apply | open | Dinner | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/rT0bsCtvW0X2fth0pP9J?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 7 PM to 9 PM | Tech Meets Couture | Neighborhood Linguist, Unity Match Development Project | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/sak9PNJA3Q1Anbo3UKta?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 9 AM to 11 AM | Pickleball & Breakfast for Physical AI | DivcoWest Ventures, Phoebe Zhang, Daniel Stein, Diana Kay, Varad Mohod, Antonia Elisa Soler Blasco, Mayur Mistry | - | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/zKFIbA2jbGAfoL3eGLwd?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 9 AM to 11:30 AM | Pitch or NGMI: 20 Startups. 2 Minutes. One Winner. | Boxsy, FLUIX AI, Mind the Bridge, Oppos Inc., Elisabeth Bykoff, Abhi Sastri, Sanita Youree, Darace Rose | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/cl9Apcup1UShaavhbbmr?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 11 AM to 1 PM | Kindred Motorworks | Kindred Motorworks, Shawn Jackson | - | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/27NgykYAKfD7OJYvTCpf?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 1 PM to 4 PM | Silicon to Scale: A Physical AI Summit | SparkLabs Taiwan, Startup Island TAIWAN - Silicon Valley Hub, Sunny Hu, Claire Liu, Edgar Chiu, Uly Su, Mallory Chien | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/3LUr6WRA4q7srYyJGmGO?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 2:30 PM | Hardware 101 for Software Founders | Waybox Inc, Waybox Inc. | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/zi74ttEhOF6WcxjlsFsm?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 3 PM to 5 PM | EPIC Connector Afterparty - SF Tech Week Closing Night | EPIC Connector Pte. Ltd., Winni | San Mateo | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/lXcmIFSWSvc6kyScP0OJ?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 3 PM to 6:30 PM | Japanese Government, Strategic Investors, LPs & Major Corporations × Global VCs & Startups | DG Daiwa Ventures, Yamato Watanabe, Mai Komizo, Makito Masuyama | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/KhCm90cwBquq4snndW3p?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 3 PM to 5 PM | What's the Next Interface for AI? Early-Stage AI Hardware Builder + Investor Mingle | Polipop, Circuit Launch, YAXIN DUAN, Arkadiy (Ark) | Mountain View | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/L3srgydRmlZR2Em3OzJg?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 4:30 PM | Capital After Hours: VIP Investor Dinner with startups, corporate, tech professionals | Angel Launch | Palo Alto | RSVP | open | Dinner, Drinks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/ppDmXG7aw9xBqt5OWBf1?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 5 PM to 9 PM | Hardware FYI: SF Tech Week Edition | Brian D'Erario, Benji Chia | Dogpatch | Apply | sold out | Snacks, Drinks | From $99 | - | [View](https://luma.com/g5sdw0b6?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 6 PM | Loop - a supper on the physical economy | Allometry, Taylor Gendron | Mission | Apply | open | Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/C1GaGH4ik0eGVvJenCSH?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM | Robotics Founders Dinner · The Robot Contest | Daidai Labs, Mat | SoMa | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/eYyNSr4sqM7JCYZWVeHL?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 7 PM | CAD + AI SF | CAD-ai.tech, Mo | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/c2al3nSe5n9wJEPjaPlW?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 7 PM | Robots & Bevs | PrismaX, Tracy Massaro | Palo Alto | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/v3SFetdJTicILdEbO4um?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 11 AM to 1:30 PM | AI Wearables / Flexible Biosensors | Catalyst Bay, Liudmyla, Oleksandra Kviatkovska, Alina Blyzniuk, Victoria, Jacqueline Adami | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/mYGS6wUpaPlN9kijg6yv?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 11 AM | INTERFACE: Hack the Space Between | Field Lab, Sissi Wang, Iana Lin | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/AkfcAYRQeMprRyPklVKe?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 1 PM to 5 PM | Frontier in Action: Physical AI Demo Day | fig studio | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/7XM8nAxogCgC4onY5eA1?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 2 PM to 5 PM | Care at a Distance: AI, Sensors & the Future of Aging | Stanford student, Crane Huang, Xiaojing Xing | Palo Alto | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/IdewRQj8ffxtXnEOkgyu?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 3 PM to 6 PM | Women X Foundation: Where Capital Meets the Next Wave of AI | Women X Foundation, Women X | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/GznQNq9VxgOYmDSnEbBZ?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 5:30 PM to 8 PM | The Robot Contest + Afterparty | Daidai Labs, Fontaine Founders, Mat, Kaveh Vaziri | SoMa | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/BIshLI09kD7gJ3py1JLW?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Canyon Wrap Party | Canyon Bicycles | Cow Hollow | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/RHGWDIdYPDcVWiQSmsY4?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 6 PM | When off-the-shelf doesn't fit: owning your schematic tooling | Workflow Builder, Mateusz Masiczak, Mateusz Jagodziński | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/X2TijNAunDeyhvApcfQM?ref=chancity) |
| Sun, Oct 11 | 12 PM | Physical AI Research Breakthroughs | Sobremesa, Sobremesa Events | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/0V6hDzgLY5eiodbugteB?ref=chancity) |
| Sun, Oct 11 | 7 PM to 10:45 PM | The Next Frontier: AI, Capital & Scale | Humain, Diwan, yazan | Stanford | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/mTbH6ySnpY7HXwtSPUTJ?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 12 | 5 PM to 9 PM | The Future of Work Social Mixer + Open Demos: Worktech, Robotics & Agentic AI | Natalia Bielczyk, Ontology of Value, Pavel Vinitsky, Olga Grafkova, TatianaSF com, Natalie Pan, Funding Breakthrough Lab | SoMa | RSVP | open | - | Free | - | [RSVP](https://luma.com/qo2dliwb?ref=chancity) |

## Who is there

- Hosting: Cognitive Intelligence Company (4); Osama F Rama (4) ([X](https://x.com/ofr92)); Alina Blyzniuk (3); Catalyst Bay (3) ([X](https://x.com/TechstarsSWSF)); Jacqueline Adami (3); Mattie Fairchild (3); Oleksandra Kviatkovska (3); Plug and Play (3); AGI, Inc. (2) ([X](https://x.com/agi_inc)); Aiko Dai (2) ([X](https://x.com/AikoDai_)); Amino Capital (2); Anna Shimafuji (2) ([X](https://x.com/xranna000))
- Speaking: Eleanor Ketter; Kayci Bi; Sam De Brouwer; Kosuke Yusa; Nikos Liodakis; Olga Chumanskaya; Daniel Docter; Pae Wu; Manpreet Kohli; Ryan Husk; Phillip Braddock; Shilpi Nayak; Mike Schroepfer; Peter Steinberger; Emmett Shear; Touraj Parang; Mohsen Moazami; Bill Tai; Risa Wechsler; Betsy Barton; Louis Blankemeier; Christina Cassotis; Matthias Schaefer; Lindsey Irvine; Lindon Gao; Ariel Shulman; Andrew Wooten; Grace Velker; Sergey Levine; Anjana Kandalam; Jordan Wahbeh; Manveer Sandhu; Kerry Chin; Evelyn Y.K. Lee; Rusmin Lawin; Teresa Hung; Melissa Oh; Merc Martinelli; Jaz Banga
- Featured guests: Sebastian Yerovi; Monika .; Senthilnathan K; Dylan Ler; David Phan; 용주 성; Vishaal Nagaraja; Carlos Oliveros; Michael Cao; Oscar Giardinazzo; Boris Krasniansky; Sanjay Krishnamurthy; Edward Zhou; Victor Wang; Bryan Fenchel; Sophia Lee; Yezel Rosales; Chandyce (CAN-diss) Adden; Serephina Ha; Matt Soza; Vin Gupta; Swayam Pandya; Yas Khalil; Touko Ursin; Viktor Klasson; Anders Vestrum; Aniket Maurya; James Jacobs; Matej Hamaš; Sashank Aryal; Sung Eun Choi; Minsul Nam; Pearl Jin; Joshua Jerin; Hasanalam Attar; Robert Wendt; Raz Kaplan Raviv

## FAQ

### Which Robotics and hardware events can I join without applying?

16 of the 159 are open RSVP; the other 143 ask you to apply.

### What do hosts ask when you apply?

Across 136 Robotics and hardware events with an application form, 136 ask for a job title, 136 for a company, 136 for LinkedIn and 92 for GitHub.

### Are there free robotics events at SF Tech Week?

A handful. 7 are listed as free and 11 list a price. The rest don't say.

### What are the main Robotics and hardware events on Tuesday, Oct 6?

39 Robotics and hardware events are listed for Tuesday, Oct 6, led by AI Visionaries Forum and Designing for Physical AI: From Innovation Lab to Factory Floor. AI Visionaries Forum (Tue 10 AM, AWS for Startups); Designing for Physical AI: From Innovation Lab to Factory Floor (Tue 6 PM, Swissnex in San Francisco); Industrial Tech After Dark (Tue 6:30 PM, Tandem); Contextful After Party (Tue 7 PM, Sebastian Chapela); Houston, We Have No Cloud: Build Your AI for the Moon (Tue 5:30 PM, Liquid AI).

### What are the main Robotics and hardware events on Wednesday, Oct 7?

43 Robotics and hardware events are listed for Wednesday, Oct 7, led by The Hardware Layer of AI: Builders, Bits, and Physical Tech and Google for Startups & NVIDIA: Deep Tech x Deep House Happy Hour. They include The Hardware Layer of AI: Builders, Bits, and Physical Tech (Wed 5:00 PM), Google for Startups & NVIDIA: Deep Tech x Deep House Happy Hour (Wed 5:30 PM), SE ASIA SF SALON #2 (Wed 4:00 PM), Beyond the Demo: How Physical AI Companies Make Real Money (Wed 4:00 PM) and Beyond Earth: The Aerospace Robotics and SpaceTech Fireside Discussion (Wed 5:00 PM).

### Which Robotics and hardware events have food?

56 of the 159 mention food (33 snacks, 18 breakfast, 3 dinner). AI Visionaries Forum (Tue 10 AM, AWS for Startups); 138th SF Hardware Meetup @ Flux AI | Reindustrialize America (Thu 6:30 PM, SF Hardware Meetups); SE ASIA SF SALON #2 (Wed 4 PM, Tech Brews); Robots on the Rocks🍸 (Thu 5 PM, Lorimer Ventures); Seamaphore Open House (Mon 5 PM, Seamaphore).

### Which Robotics and hardware events have drinks?

18 mention drinks: 2 open bar, 7 alcohol, 9 coffee or soft drinks. Among them are AGI, Inc. Store - Wearables Pop-up (Mon 9:00 AM), "Coffee, on us"; Google for Startups & NVIDIA: Deep Tech x Deep House Happy Hour (Wed 5:30 PM), "open bar"; Capital After Hours: VIP Investor Dinner with startups, corporate, tech professionals (Fri 4:30 PM), "delicious buffet dinner"; R2S2R Arena Launch (Thu 4:00 PM), "Snacks & Drinks will be provided".

### Which Robotics and hardware events have the most RSVPs?

The Future of Work Social Mixer + Open Demos: Worktech, Robotics & Agentic AI has the most, 530 RSVPs. They include The Future of Work Social Mixer + Open Demos: Worktech, Robotics & Agentic AI (Mon 5:00 PM), AGI, Inc. Store - Wearables Pop-up (Mon 9:00 AM), Google for Startups & NVIDIA: Deep Tech x Deep House Happy Hour (Wed 5:30 PM) and Come Touch the Future: Hard Tech Expo with Third Sphere (Thu 1:00 PM).

## Same page at the other tech week

- At LA Tech Week (Oct 12 to 18): 71 Robotics and hardware events: https://www.chancity.ai/events/la-tech-week/robotics-hardware
  Both weeks: https://www.chancity.ai/events/tech-week/robotics-hardware

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