{"id":"evt_615b2f383132","title":"Scaling Physical AI in the Real World","date":"2026-02-19","timezone":"America/New_York","start_time":"18:00","time_of_day":"evening","venue":null,"location":{"basis":"unresolved","likely_area":null,"likely_area_granularity":null,"evidence":null},"description":"Presented by Viam. Physical AI is no longer a future concept. From autonomous vehicles to smart glasses, intelligent systems that sense, reason, and act in the real world are already here. Today’s challenge isn’t whether these systems can work, but how to connect, manage, and scale them reliably across different hardware, environments, and use cases. This panel brings together leaders working across the physical AI stack to unpack what it actually takes to build and deploy production-ready systems at scale. The conversation spans: hardware integration in complex, real-world environments; spatial AI and perception systems that allow machines to understand and navigate physical space; and the software infrastructure that connects these critical layers.","access":{"free":null,"application_required":null},"audience_roles":[],"audience_orientation":"technical","company_stage":null,"interaction":["content"],"topics":["ai"],"modality":"in_person","meal_context":"none","series":null,"mentions":[{"text":"Viam","kind":"organization","subtype":"company","role":"organizer"}],"sources":[{"id":"nextnyc","class":"newsletter","publisher":"nextNYC","first_observed_at":"2026-02-16T12:45:28.0000000Z","last_observed_at":"2026-02-16T12:45:28.0000000Z"}],"discovery":{"first_party":[],"newsletter":["nextnyc"],"provider":null},"basis":{"audience_roles":{},"topics":{"ai":"observed"},"audience_orientation":"inferred","company_stage":null,"interaction":"observed","modality":"default"},"canonical_url":"https://luma.com/750y2jmv","first_seen":"2026-02-16T12:45:28.0000000Z","last_seen":"2026-02-16T12:45:28.0000000Z","observation_count":1}