Close out the Robot Year in style. Join us for our final RoboCafé of 2026: a special end-of-year edition with a guest travelling all the way from France for an exclusive talk you won’t want to miss. As always: great conversations, free drinks, and the energy that only happens when curious minds come together.
LeRobot: Democratizing Real-World Physical AI.
Robots that learn. Tools that are free. A community building the future together. Pepijn Kooijmans is on one of the most exciting missions in robotics right now: making physical AI accessible to everyone, not just those with million-dollar labs and enterprise budgets. As the designer of the open-source SO-101 robot arm and lead of the LeRobot project at Hugging Face, he is tearing down the walls between cutting-edge research and the rest of the world. LeRobot is not just a toolkit, it is a movement. A growing global community sharing robotics models, datasets and training tools so that anyone, anywhere, can teach a robot to interact with the real world. State-of-the-art AI, open to all. Pepijn is flying in from France especially for this edition. Trust us, this is not a talk you want to read about afterwards. Come and hear it live, ask your questions, and get a front-row seat to where physical AI is going next. This is what the Robot Year is all about.
Programme
16:45 – 17:00 – Doors open, grab a drink, connect with the ecosystem
17:00 – 17:30 – Talk by Pepijn Kooijmans — ML Engineer at Hugging Face | LeRobot Project Lead + Q&A
17:30 – 19:00 – Networking drinks
19:00 – Wrap-up & end of RoboCafé 2026
17:00 – 17:30 – Talk by Pepijn Kooijmans — ML Engineer at Hugging Face | LeRobot Project Lead + Q&A
17:30 – 19:00 – Networking drinks
19:00 – Wrap-up & end of RoboCafé 2026
RoboCafé is a free, informal community gathering for the robotics and innovation ecosystem. We bring together founders, researchers, engineers, students and partners to connect, share ideas and celebrate what robotics has become this year.
Free to attend. All are welcome. See you there!
