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This month was full of great meetups!
an informal party to rock CES 🤘 brought together 500+ people for a gathering to kickoff CES Tuesday at the Punk Rock Museum. It’s a favorite event each year bringing together members across all cities.
129th SF Hardware Meetup @ Studio 45 was a mini CES experience in SF with 10+ consumer hardware startups demoing their latest, from Tesla FSD on Performance Model Y to Mave Health’s new non-invasive headset launch
19th Oakland Hardware Meetup gathered 150+ people on the topic of accelerating hardware development with EverCurrent
14th San Jose Hardware Meetup brought together 200+ founders and engineers for Taiwan’s Grand Challenge launch for manufacturing in Taiwan. Event collab with Sparknify
3rd Phoenix Hardware Meetup met at Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation with 50+ members discussing case studies from SMT Labs.
2nd Framingham Hardware Meetup featured talks on autonomous vehicle engineering and non-invasive lab animal instrumentation.
2nd Reno Hardware Meetup enjoyed a tour at Moment Skis Factory.
SF Physical AI Hardware Founder Dinner with Rho enjoyed a startup focused BBQ dinner at Studio 45.
(SF Bay Area) Founding Hardware Engineer @ Crewline AI
(SF Bay Area) AI Engineer, Manipulation, Optimus @ Tesla
(SF Bay Area) Robotics Engineer, Manipulation @ Skild AI
(SF Bay Area) Electrical Engineer @ LLNL
(SF Bay Area) Mechanical Engineer @ Triple Ring Technologies
(SF Bay Area) Lead Electro-Mechanical Engineer @ Feather Robotics
(NY) Hardware Systems & Lab Engineer, Robotics & Operations @ Basis Research
(NY) Founding Engineer & Technical Co-Founder (AR Hardware Systems) @ Draco Intelligence
(NY) Roboticist In Residence @ Nominal
(NY) Senior Electrical Engineer @ Caladan Bio
(NY) AI Research Scientist, Robotics @ Meta
(Boston) Senior Robotics Engineer, Maritime @ Anduril
(Boston) Senior Hardware Development Engineer, Tactile Sensing @ Boston Dynamics
(Boston) Senior Engineer II, Technical Program Manager @ Lila
Dhawal and the Mave Team just launched their new headset for mental health
Ashley is looking for a mechanical engineer for a part-time contract to help with CAD design and prototyping (3D printing, silicone molding, assembly) of a compact consumer device.
Corey is looking to talk to people who’ve recently had challenges in hardware component sourcing as he builds out Pollinate in YC W26 batch.
If you don’t see an event page yet, it will be up shortly. Most are shared a couple weeks prior.
NY Hardware Happy Hour @ Time Out Market (Tonight)
SF Physical AI Build Night / Claude Code on PamirAI Dev Boards (Tonight)
130th SF Hardware Meetup @ Rivian (Feb 5th)
5th Munich Hardware Meetup (Feb 10th)
2nd Paris Hardware Meetup | The New Defense Stack (Feb 17th)
SF Hardware Pitch Night @ Studio 45 (Feb 19th)
Thanks for joining for this monthly recap!
See you at an upcoming Hardware Meetup,
Michael + Nate from Hardware Meetup
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