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

Format

Doors open at 4:00pm for open networking. A special guest is introduced around 4:45pm, followed at 5:15pm by a 60-second elevator pitch round where anyone in the room can describe what they are building. The remainder is unstructured conversation.

This is the October occurrence at Little Woodrow's in Domain Northside. Free to attend; food and drinks are on your own tab.

Scheduling caveat worth knowing: this organizer maintains two parallel calendars, and its Luma listings for the same series carry different autumn dates (24 September and 22 October) from these Meetup listings (10 September and 8 October). Both sets are live and marked as scheduled. Confirm on the page you register through before travelling.