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A conversation with Jason Ma, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of Dyna Robotics
Robot demos are easy. Robots that work all day in real customer sites are not.
As robot foundation models get more capable, the edge is moving from who has the best demo to who can deploy reliably, collect data from real work, and feed it back into the model. We're bringing together the people building physical AI to talk about what that takes.
Speaker Jason Ma is co-founder and Chief Scientist of Dyna Robotics, which builds general-purpose AI robots already working in commercial settings like restaurants and laundry rooms. Dyna's DYNA-1 model sustained 99%+ success rates over 24 hours of non-stop operation, and its latest model, DYNA-2, was trained on over 1 million hours of data. Before Dyna, Jason was a research scientist at Google DeepMind and did research at NVIDIA, including Eureka, one of NVIDIA's top 10 research projects of 2023. He holds a PhD from UPenn's GRASP Lab.
Topics • Why deployment data compounds, and how it feeds back into the model • Getting from 80% to 99%+ reliability: the unglamorous work • What changes when robots leave the lab for real customer sites • Where general-purpose robotics is headed next
Who should come: Robotics researchers and engineers, physical AI founders, and investors. Our last event drew 700+ registrations, with technical staff from PI, Skild AI, 1X, Agility, Apptronik, Bedrock, Dexterity and more.
Due to limited capacity, we are not accepting +1s or people who were not approved to the guest list.
Agenda: 5:30 PM — Doors Open + Light Bites 6:20 PM — Welcome Remarks 6:30 PM — Fireside Chat 6:50 PM — Audience Q&A 7:00 PM — Networking 8:00 PM — End of event
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This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
