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NYC AI Users: AI in Robotics and Event-Driven Agentic AI

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Join the New York AI community for an evening of cutting-edge talks exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence with robotics and event-driven architectures. Hosted by New York AI Users at Vellum AI's downtown Manhattan office, this meetup brings together AI enthusiasts, engineers, founders, and creatives for an evening of learning and networking, complete with free food and drinks sponsored by Solace.

Featured Talks

The event features two expert speakers tackling critical challenges in modern AI development:

Why Agentic AI Needs to be Event Driven – Leah Robert, Principal Sales Engineer at Solace, addresses the scalability challenges facing enterprise AI deployments. As organizations build multiple AI assistants and agents, connecting them becomes an integration bottleneck. Learn how event-driven architecture provides the connectivity, scalability, and resiliency needed for enterprise-grade AI agent deployments. Drawing from her software design background at Queen's University and hands-on customer experience, Leah breaks down the technical requirements for agents to communicate effectively across environments.

Robotics in AI: Beyond the Hype – Lee Gaul delivers a critical examination of embodied AI and humanoid robotics. This talk challenges the prevailing narrative around viral robot demos, revealing the gap between carefully staged demonstrations and genuine physical intelligence. Lee explores why humanoid form factors aren't the near-term solution, how teleoperation and sim-to-real shortcuts mask real limitations, and what the Robot Olympics reveals about current capabilities. Most importantly, he discusses why large language models lack the affordance reasoning, grounded perception, and real-time physical inference required for true physical-world agents – and what architectures might actually work.

Who Should Attend

This meetup welcomes anyone interested in AI technology, from technical practitioners building with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to non-technical enthusiasts curious about AI's role in our future. No technical background is required – just genuine interest in learning about these transformative technologies. Founders exploring AI opportunities, engineers implementing AI solutions, and creatives experimenting with tools like Midjourney will all

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