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SUMMARY:Physical AI Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Hear 3 expert talks\, take the mic for a demo or announcement. Connect with ANZ’s largest AI/hardware community over pizza & drinks. \nListen and learn\, share a quick demo\, prototype\, or announcement – whether it’s AI\, hardware\, or something you’re building. All welcome. \nPresentations:\n\nTalk 1 by Massimo Sacchi: Democratisation of Edge AI This talk brings Physical AI down from theory to the factory floor. It opens by framing Edge AI along two axes—edge versus cloud\, and learned models versus traditional analytical rules—then walks through why industrial environments increasingly demand on-device intelligence. \n\n\nTalk 2 by Stanley Chong: 20ms vs 2 Seconds: What a Safety Vest Taught Us About Choosing the Right Visual AI Not every vision problem needs a giant model — and not every giant model needs to see pixels the way you’d think. In this talk we’ll unpack the real differences between CNNs\, Vision-Language Models (VLMs)\, and multimodal LLMs: what they’re each actually built to do\, where their reasoning comes from\, and why picking the wrong one costs you either accuracy or your latency budget. \n\n\nTalk 3 by Dr Fangyi Zhang: Gentle Embodied AI: Vision- and Tactile-Based Robotic Manipulation for a Delicate World Modern robots excel at tasks demanding force\, speed\, and repeatability\, yet they remain remarkably poor at gentleness – the careful\, adaptive\, contact-rich interaction required to handle fragile objects\, manipulate deformable materials\, or physically collaborate with people safely. This talk begins with vision-based manipulation and learning-based control – how robots can acquire visuo-motor skills\, transfer them from simulation to the real world\, and learn manipulation behaviours by watching human demonstrations. \n\nPizza and drinks for this meetup are made possible by our sponsor\, the Innovation Central Perth – an industry and science collaboration centre located at Curtin University\, with the vision of advancing digital transformation through an open innovation ecosystem. \nRegister here
URL:https://wainnovationcalendar.com.au/event/physical-ai-meetup-2/
LOCATION:Innovation Central Perth\, Level 2\, Building 216\, Curtin University\, Bentley\, WA\, 6102\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Networking / Group Meetup,Seminar / Panel Discussion / Conversation
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SUMMARY:Physical AI Meetup - Perth
DESCRIPTION:Hear 3 expert talks\, take the mic for a demo or announcement. Connect with ANZ’s largest AI/hardware community over pizza & drinks.\n\n\n\n\nListen and learn\, share a quick demo\, prototype\, or announcement – whether it’s AI\, hardware\, or something you’re building. All welcome. \nPizza and drinks for this meetup are made possible by our sponsor\, the Curtin Institute for Data Science – Australia’s largest university-based data science research institute\, applying data science and high-performance computing to real-world problems across government\, industry\, and academia.
URL:https://wainnovationcalendar.com.au/event/physical-ai-meetup-perth/
LOCATION:Curtin School of Business [78 Murray Street]\, 78 Murray Street\, Perth\, WA\, 6000
CATEGORIES:Networking / Group Meetup
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SUMMARY:Physical AI Meetup
DESCRIPTION: Talk 1: Getting Deep with Neural Networks – Considerations for Physical AI in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles \n Talk 2: From Mine Site to Mindset: Real-World Physical AI with Computer Vision (BHP) and LLMs (Monti) \nTalk 3: Agents for the Bottom Line: How AI Agents Are Starting to Do Real Work \nSponsored by the Curtin Institute for Data Science – Australia’s largest university-based data science research institute\, applying data science and high-performance computing to real-world problems across government\, industry\, and academia.
URL:https://wainnovationcalendar.com.au/event/physical-ai-meetup/
LOCATION:Curtin CBD (137 St Georges Tce)\, 137 St Georges Terrace\, Perth\, Western Australia\, 6000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Networking / Group Meetup
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