The best conversations in physical AI are happening in rooms, not on feeds.
This is the room. An intimate circle of founders, investors, and researchers — known to each other by their work, not their following. Robotics. Embodied systems. Hardware that thinks. San Francisco & Los Angeles.
Proof over prestige. Trajectory over polish. Contribution over follower count.
Every seat is earned the same way: by the work. Not the following, not the logo on the badge, not the size of the last round.
Three or four founders. Two or three investors. Two or three researchers. That is the whole room.
No panels. No pitch decks. No recordings. Just dinner, small enough that no one talks past you and no one performs for the room. Before you arrive, we already know what you give, what you need, and who you should be sitting beside.
Twelve founders. Eight countries. Filmed where the work happens.
Between rooms, we film. In the Room — Season 1 was shot at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, at HumanX, and at a physical AI hackathon: long, unhurried conversations with the people giving machines senses and bodies. These are our guests — the kind of company this room keeps.
We hold ourselves to our own standard: the real.
Nothing here is a projection. Every number is a night, a conversation, a piece of footage — and now you can see it for yourself.
A person seats you here. This is that person.
I'm Whitney. I moved to San Francisco to be closer to the people building physical AI — and I kept noticing that the best things founders said never happened on stage. They happened at the edge of the booth, after the demo, over dinner. So I started filming those conversations, and then I started setting the table for them.
The Physical AI Room is that table. I find the people whose work is louder than their name, I learn what they give and what they need, and I seat them beside each other. That's the whole job — and I do it slowly, and with care.
There is no ticket. There is only the work.
We meet — or someone says your name
Most seats begin in person: a conference, a lab, a demo. The rest begin with a nomination from someone who has sat at the table.
A conversation
Not an application. We talk about the work — what you're building, what's hard, what you'd want from the people beside you.
The letter
When it's time, you won't get a link. You'll get a letter — written by hand, one page, one reason you belong at this table.
Your first table
Eight to ten seats. No recordings, nothing owed. Everyone there has passed the only test that matters — so nobody has anything to prove.
Seats are for builders. The rest keeps the table free for them.
Request a seat
Founders, investors, and researchers in physical AI. Tell us about the work — that's the only credential we read.
Write to us →Sponsor a room
One sponsor per table. Quiet association, a seat among the builders, first look at what's coming. No logos on the table.
Start a conversation →Nominate someone
Know a builder whose work is louder than their name? Say the name. Nominations from the table are how this room grows.
Say a name →