Boston Physical AI Workshop and Meetup
November 12, 2026 @ 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Join us at Northeastern University on November 12th for the Boston Physical AI Workshop and Meetup, co-presented by Nebius and Voxel51.
The evening kicks off meetup-style with lightning talks from local speakers working across AI, machine learning, and computer vision, followed by a hands-on workshop on building physical AI applications with FiftyOne, from curating robotics and sensor datasets to evaluating vision models on real-world data.
A laptop is required to participate in the hands-on workshop – please bring one. Space is limited, so register early.
Location: Northeastern University, 140 Fenway, Room 378, Boston, MA 02115
Networking and Meetup
5:30–6:30 PM
- Networking, food, drinks, and lightning talks
Workshop Agenda
This hands-on session uses DROID, a real-world robotics dataset loaded into FiftyOne as a native multimodal MCAP recording, and YOLO11n, fine-tuned live during the session.
6:30–7:30 PM
- Welcome + framing: from raw robot logs to a trained detector
- Explore a real DROID robotics recording in FiftyOne’s native multimodal MCAP viewer: camera, proprioception, and language on one synced timeline, no ROS install required
- Curate: extract and browse frames from the recording, filter and deduplicate
- Compute embeddings on the curated frames; explore via similarity search and embeddings visualization (via Nebius Serverless AI Jobs)
7:30–8:00 PM
- Auto-label: open-vocabulary detection to generate bounding boxes for the robot gripper and target objects
- Train: fine-tune a YOLO11n detector on the auto-labeled frames (via Nebius Serverless AI Jobs)
- Evaluate results and close the loop: view predictions back on the original MCAP timeline
8:00–8:30 PM
- What else Nebius offers: Token Factory walkthrough — chat/vision models, fine-tuning, credits