AUTONOMOUS: The Future of Robotics & Physical AI

Step into the future at AUTONOMOUS: The Future of Robotics & Physical AI conference. Join senior leaders, investors, researchers, and innovators as they shape tomorrow's technology landscape. Be there when products launch and partnerships form—July 16th in vibrant San Francisco.

Step into the future at AUTONOMOUS: The Future of Robotics & Physical AI conference. Join senior leaders, investors, researchers, and innovators as they shape tomorrow's technology landscape. Be there when products launch and partnerships form - July 16th in vibrant San Francisco.

AUTONOMOUS 2026 Speaker Spotlight: Ziv Binyamini Ziv is CEO and Co-Founder of Foretellix, which builds the verification and validation platform that autonomous vehicle and physical AI developers use to prove their systems are safe before deploying them at scale. Foretellix's Foretify platform enables AV developers, OEMs, and Tier-1 suppliers to test against millions of simulated and real-world driving scenarios, replacing the unscalable approach of physical test miles with intelligent, coverage-driven virtual validation. Join Ziv, 50 curated speakers and 500 attendees in San Francisco, July 16th for our premier event. Get tickets here → https://lnkd.in/gwcU6Mrc

AUTONOMOUS 2026 Speaker Spotlight: Aadeel Akhtar, PhD Dr. Aadeel Akhtar is Founder and CEO of PSYONIC, a San Diego bionic technology company whose Ability Hand is a touch-sensing robotic hand used by both amputees and robot builders. PSYONIC set out to make advanced prostheses genuinely affordable, and ended up building one of the most capable robotic hands available, solving dexterous manipulation with real tactile feedback. → The Ability Hand is the fastest bionic hand on the market and the only one with multi-touch sensory feedback, so users feel what they grip through fingertip sensors → The same hardware now works as a robotics end effector: more than 50 robotics companies use PSYONIC hands, the research version is used by Apptronik, NASA, and Meta, and PSYONIC is working with NVIDIA on models for robot dexterity → FDA registered and Medicare covered, with over $10M raised in equity Join Aadeel, 50 curated speakers and 500 attendees in San Francisco, July 16th for our premier event. Get tickets here → https://lnkd.in/g3rTpPKs

AUTONOMOUS 2026 Speaker Spotlight: Lukas Pankau Lukas is Co-founder and CEO of Industrial Next (YC W22), a San Francisco company bringing the autonomous-factory playbook he helped pioneer to every other manufacturer. Industrial Next builds vision-first, AI-driven automation. Their approach consists of smart cameras and software that let a production line recognize parts and plan how to handle them, rather than run a fixed pre-programmed routine. It's flexible automation that makes reshoring economically viable at a time when it's vital. → Founded in 2021 in San Francisco, with a $10M Series A behind it → Shipped its first AI-powered workstation into production deployment in 2025 → Before founding it, Lukas spent five years at Tesla on the core autonomous-factory team, leading next-generation Autopilot hardware architecture, after earlier work at Ford Motor Company and Waymo Join Lukas, 50 curated speakers and 500 attendees in San Francisco, July 16th for our premier event. Get tickets here → https://lnkd.in/gamrc2YD

AUTONOMOUS 2026 Speaker Spotlight: Adarsh Kulkarni Adarsh is Founder and CEO of Foundry Robotics, which is rebuilding American manufacturing as an AI-first, assembly-focused, dual-use contract manufacturer using Vision-Language-Action foundation models to enable generalized robotic assembly across diverse products and operations. Foundry Robotics operates as what it calls the Everything Factory, deploying modular robotic cells capable of assembling complex electromechanical systems, battery packs, defence hardware, and dual-use components without the traditional retooling overhead of conventional factory automation. → Adarsh holds a Master's in Robotics from the University of Pennsylvania and leads a team of over 20 builders drawn from Tesla, Blue Origin, Scale AI, and UPenn's GRASP Lab → Foundry Robotics raised $19 million in seed funding from Khosla Ventures Hanabi Capital, Red Glass Ventures, Zero Shot Fund, and other backers in early 2026 →The company's core bet is that VLA foundation models now make it possible to run a single factory that assembles many different products and switches between them without months of retooling Join Adarsh, 50 curated speakers and 500 attendees in San Francisco, July 16th, for our premier event. Get tickets here → https://lnkd.in/gUKnrPDz