Demo or Die: Physical AI @ SF Consulate General

The morning of AI Kiran, Lesley Ray was still fixing her BrainHome prototype. Cables, sensor arrays, a laptop that wouldn&rsquo;t talk to the controller board. I watched her troubleshoot with the same calm panic I recognized from my own past. In 2013, I was an INK Fellow in Kochi. The night before I was supposed to present on the main stage, I was in my hotel room (jetlagged after a flight from…