PAIR
Physical AI and Robotics Crafters Summit
Ready to PAIR?
A one-day crafter conference on the machines that move. Bring your robot, your tech, your hardware — a hacking and scientific community moment where the work is built, run and torn down in the open.
A crafter conference, not a conference.
Bring your robot. Bring your tech. Bring your hardware. PAIR is a hacking and scientific community moment — benches instead of booths, running rigs instead of slideware, and people who can actually fix what you brought standing next to it.
Four topics, one floor
Humanoids
Whole-body control, balance under contact, and the policy stack that keeps two legs from giving out.
Embodied AI
Perception that survives the real world — proprioception, contact sensing, and grounding in 3D.
Actuation
Joints, tendons and gearboxes. Torque density, thermal limits, and what "soft" actually costs.
Sim2Real
Closing the gap between the render farm and the lab bench. Domain randomisation that holds up.
Every session at PAIR ends up looking like this: something taken apart on a table, with four people arguing about the third bearing from the left.
Morning you demo. Afternoon you listen.
Bring your own robot for the morning demo floor. Keynotes and lightning talks take the stage after lunch.
Morning — Demos
Bring your own robotAfternoon — Talks
Keynotes and lightning talksThe people at the bench
150 seats total — practitioners, builders and researchers across the four topics.
CNIT Forest, Paris
A vaulted hall under the concrete canopy of La Défense — high ceiling, hard floor, power at every bay. Built for rigs, not just chairs.
Submit a paper, a demo or a lightning talk.
Field results, failed experiments, control stacks, grippers, sim-to-real war stories. Crafters and researchers share the same floor — 15 min papers on the afternoon stage, 5 min lightning talks, or a morning demo bay for the hardware itself.
Reserve your bay
150 seats only, to keep the floor workable. Applications close 20 November — bring a problem, leave with a session.