Building Smarter Robots: From AI Perception to Real-World Deployment
- Date
- 2026-06-11
- Location
- Online
- Host
- Association for Advancing Automation (A3)
About this event
1-2 PM ET
Who should attend
If you're working on robots that need to perform reliably outside the lab, this conversation is built for you. - **Robotics engineers and developers** who want a clearer view of how AI perception connects to control, decision-making, and deployment in real operating environments. - **Industrial automation and manufacturing professionals** exploring how smarter robotic systems can improve throughput, flexibility, quality, or resilience on the factory floor. - **Technical leads, product builders, and innovation teams** evaluating what it actually takes to move from promising prototypes to systems that can handle real-world constraints. - **Researchers and applied AI practitioners** interested in the gap between model performance in testing and robot performance in messy, dynamic, physical settings. - **Founders, operators, and strategy leaders** looking to better understand where robotics is headed and how advances in perception are shaping practical adoption. - **Anyone bridging software and hardware** who wants a grounded discussion of deployment challenges, tradeoffs, and what “smarter” really means when robots have to work in the real world.