Paris Hardware Meetup | Building the Future of Robotics

After meeting Hardware founders, engineers, and investors in San Francisco, we’re bringing this amazing community to Paris! Join us for this edition focused on Robotics 🤖 Our mission: to connect the people building the future of hardware: from prototypes to products, from labs to the real world. Hardware Meetups bring together founders, engineers, and innovators in 50+ cities around the world to share ideas, showcase projects, and connect with the people shaping the future of hardware. Paris is full of world-class builders, now’s the time to bring them together! We have a fantastic group of guest speakers: Steven Palma, AI Robotics at Hugging FaceRemi Cadene, Co-founder at UMAAurélien Cord, Co-founder & CTO at Stanley RoboticsRoch Molléro, Co-founder & CTO at Gobano Robotics Agenda 19:00 - 19:30 - Arrival, mingle, grab refreshments19:30 - 19:40 - Welcome and introduction19:40 - 20:40 - Guest talks and audience Q&A20:40 - 21:00 - Community open micShare your project or prototype in 2 minutes, an open moment for anyone who’s building something exciting. Want a spot? Send an email: ParisHardwareMeetup@pm.me21:00 - 21:30 - Mix, mingle, and wrap up! Meet fellow builders - AMD Open Robotics Hackathon Our meetup is 1 day before the AMD Open Robotics Hackathon, a perfect chance to connect with teams and start sharing ideas! Thank you to our partners Foxglove - we developed MCAP, the state-of-the-art open-source multimodal data logging format. Use our Agent to easily upload data. Create Events to annotate interesting datapoints. Once you do, share the recordings with your team in seconds and visualize the data easily in Foxglove using shared layouts. informal is a freelance collective for the most talented independent professionals in the hardware ecosystem. With expertise in a diverse range of industries - from consumer electronics to automotive, climate tech to medical devices - informal members work with clients at every stage to design, manufacture, and scale top-quality physical products. Whether you're looking for a single contractor, a full-time employee, or an entire team to work on everything from product development to go-to-market strategy, the informal collective has the perfect people for the job. Want to host, speak, or sponsor the next Paris Hardware Meetup? Just reach out to: ParisHardwareMeetup@pm.me