Our friends at Weights&Biases are now at CoreWeave and want to reconnect with the robotics community by offering us free tickets to Fully Connected 26 by using the code AKFC26. Saving $899 is great but time is valuable so I asked the team what was going on to make it a worthwhile experience. Here are some of the most interesting things for robotics in a jam-packed agenda.
Workshop — “Let’s Get Physical with AI: Teaching Robots New Skills in Simulation”
- Train and adapt a real robot policy with RL in one sitting: configure it, run it on CoreWeave infra, test in simulation, use W&B to improve it
- Run as a competition — closest to the success criteria wins. Just 2 hours
Demo stations
- Full CoreWeave Physical AI stack live, walked through by our robotics engineers
- Real Field Engineering client builds — a team that has delivered 100+ engineering projects showcasing the apps and the client stories they have delivered across mechanical, aerospace, and other engineering applications
Who you can come see
- Ford — “Calibrated for Change: How Ford Is Integrating AI Into Propulsion Engineering.” Managing 50,000+ calibration parameters per vehicle bound by physics, emissions law, and safety; covers Bayesian calibration, anomaly detection across 15M connected vehicles, and Ford’s AI governance model
- Caterpillar — fireside chat with the VP of Physical AI Platforms & Construction Autonomy on scaling AI in construction autonomy, lessons learned building and deploying at scale
- Walden Robotics — “Rapidly Deploying Useful General-Purpose Robots,” Adrien Gaidon (Co-founder/CSO). Their bet: optimize for deployment first, not perfect autonomy, using real deployment data + human feedback to improve a full-stack robot loop
- nTop — Max Gaedtke on hitting NASA’s CFD 2030 target four years early: 10,000 simulations in 32 hours, running on CoreWeave
Also on the floor
- Aston Martin Aramco F1 simulators and garage setup, Fei-Fei Li, Ian Buck, Sarah Guo
- Battlebots — just fun
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CoreWeave Field Engineering angle
- Recently launched: forward-deployed engineers (mechanical/automotive/aerospace backgrounds) who embed on-site — not a consultancy pitching decks
- 100+ projects delivered: Nissan −17% on physical testing, a 12-week calibration campaign cut to a day
- The FC floor (workshop + demo stations) is this team’s work made tangible
Physical AI Field Engineering webinar (Oct 7)
- CoreWeave is hosting a webinar Oct 7 on Physical AI Field Engineering — what’s been built, what’s shipped, where it’s headed
- Good follow-up for anyone who meets the CoreWeave team at Fully Connected and wants the deeper dive
- Link: https://www.coreweave.com/events/from-build-data-to-better-calibration-applying-physical-ai-to-engineering-workflows
