Autonomy in Motion: Drones, UAV, USV, UUV & Beyond

Physical autonomy, in person

Texas Physical AI Builders runs this recurring session with the Austin–San Antonio Entrepreneurs group for people working on machines that move themselves. The framing is deliberately broad across domains but narrow on the hard problem: getting perception, decision-making and control to work reliably outside a lab.

Topics on the table

• Aerial — UAVs and drones, plus the airspace-management layer that has to keep them from colliding with everything else
• Maritime — uncrewed surface vessels for logistics and defence work, and UUVs for ocean and subsea applications
• Ground and supply chain — autonomous freight and materials movement
• The stack underneath — edge AI inference, robotics, sensing hardware and the deep-tech supply chain

Featured guests

This occurrence lists David Cao of F50, Ari Gorman of K3 Holdings, and a speaker billed as building an Earth-to-orbit compute link.

Format and timing — please read

The listing's structured start time now reads 4:30pm, having moved from 4:00pm. The organizer's posted agenda still says doors open at 4:00pm, with the guest introduction at 4:45pm and a 60-second elevator pitch round at 5:15pm, followed by open networking. The two have not been reconciled on the source page, so arrive by 4:00pm if you want the full networking window and treat 4:30pm as the latest safe arrival. Confirm on the listing the day of.

It runs as a happy hour at Little Woodrow's in Domain Northside, so expect a bar setting rather than a lecture hall. Free to attend; food and drinks are on your own tab. Useful for founders, hardware and robotics engineers, and investors trying to get a read on the Texas autonomy scene.