Meet the Makers
Stories, visionaries, and community builders engineering the future of Physical AI, biomedicine, and urban equity.
- Sterling Labs
- Vicente Bermudez
- tryterminal.ai
- Entrepreneurship
- Physical AI
- Workforce Equity
- Robotic Arms
- SF OEWD
The Builder's Ledger: Vicente Bermudez on Frontier AI, Sterling Labs, and Engineering Economic Pathways for Youth
How founder Vicente Bermudez brought the entrepreneurial fire of Sterling Labs and tryterminal.ai directly to youth builder bays—mentoring students through 6-DoF robotic manipulation while opening doors for real-world internships and community economic sovereignty.
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- Unitree
- Wang Xingxing
- Quadrupeds
- Humanoids
- Actuators
- Embodied AI
- Case Study
The Actuator Playbook: Wang Xingxing, Unitree, and the Democratization of Embodied AI
How a university graduate student collapsed the cost of quadruped and bipedal locomotion, and built a physical AI blueprint for the next generation of builders.
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- David Anderson
- Stanford Aerospace
- NVIDIA
- Physical AI
- Best Buy Teen Tech Center
- Youth Trailblazer
- RoboRoots
What Does a Roboticist Look Like? The Trajectory of David Anderson and the Blueprint for Community Elevation
From tinkering in an Oakland Teen Tech Center to becoming NVIDIA's youngest engineer and entering Stanford Aerospace, David Anderson demonstrates how institutional belief, industry access, and peer mentorship empower youth to revitalize and uplift their communities.
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- District 5
- Civic Leadership
- Supervisor Bilal Mahmood
- Tech Innovation
- Workforce Pathways
- AAACC
- Ethics in AI
From Code to Civic Service: Supervisor Bilal Mahmood Champions Youth Innovation at AAACC
Taking time on a Saturday to speak directly with student builders and neighborhood families, Supervisor Mahmood shared his technology roots and reinforced the city's commitment to community-driven physical AI.
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- Manav Goel
- Robotic Arms
- SO-101
- Physical AI
- SenseCraft
- Sim2Real
- STEM Equity
De-Abstracting the Machine: Manav Goel on Tabletop Manipulation, Open Hardware, and the Physical AI Frontier
How Seeed Studio and hands-on robotics mentors demystified the full Sim-to-Real workflow—from 3D printing and leader-follower teleoperation to SenseCraft cloud training and autonomous inference—for 50 youth builders at AAACC.
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Scaling Humanoid & Quadruped Fleets with K-Robotics
How Wonderful Togo and K-Robotics democratize physical AI access — bridging international supply chains to bring agile bipedal and quadrupedal machines directly to community youth.
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