ESP32
Display module
Temperature sensor
Moisture sensor
LED
Camera module
Depth sensor
Push button
Arduino Uno Q
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Physical AI Buildathon

You get a box of parts. You give it a brain.
By evening, it can see, think and move on its own.

Sunday · July 5, 2026 · 10AM to 18PM · Bengaluru

100+Builders
18Mentors
8 hrsBuild window

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One day · five slots

The agenda, hour by hour.

Doors & kits

Grab your hardware kit. Coffee. Intros. Set up your bench.

Keynote & build begins

A quick word on where physical AI is. Then teams form and soldering irons go on.

Lunch + mentor walk-around

Eat at the bench. Mentors rotate every 15 minutes.

Demo expo

The room opens up. Judges and visitors walk every project.

Awards & after

Prizes from Codex, Robocraze and Arduino. Then we eat.

18 mentors · on the floor all day

The mentors.

Engineers and founders who ship hardware for a living. They rotate benches all day. Ask them anything.

Aswinraj KailathBuilding Autonomous Systems & Agentic AI for +5 years
Vikram AdhityaEdge Impulse ambassador

What you'll build

Stack four blocks. Walk out with a robot.

Every project is some mix of these four. Pick a problem, stack what you need. The kit covers all of it.

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Perception

How your robot sees. You wire up a tiny camera and distance sensors. Now it knows a face is in front of it, or that a wall is 10 cm away.

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Actuation

How it moves. Small motors turn your code into motion. It can grab a cube, wave at you, or drive itself across the table.

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On-device AI

Its brain. A tiny AI model lives on the chip itself. No wifi, no cloud. Show it your hand and it reacts right there, instantly.

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Voice & IoT

How it talks to you. It wakes up when you call its name. And it can message your phone, like a doorbell that texts you.

The wall · proofs & mentor posts

What gets shipped in eight hours.

Soldering the last servo. Arm v3 actually lifts the cube 🦾

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Mentor told me: 'don't fight the IMU, fight your filter.' Game changer.

She rolls. OLED face is pure vibes.

Mentor hour. ESP32 + a whiteboard fixes most problems.

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Kits dispatched. ESP32-S3, OV2640, SG90 ×2, jumper bundle, breadboard. Show us what you make.

Claw closes on intent. Onboard model, no cloud.

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Excited to mentor at the Physical AI Buildathon. Bring questions, leave with a working robot.

Breadboard before glue gun. The honest part of hardware.

Pup v0. One leg keeps quitting on me.

Organisers

Meet the organisers.

Aachman Maheshwaribuilds the thing. fixes the thing. ships the thing.
Bhoomi Aroratalks to literally everyone. and it works every single time.

Limited seats

You bring a laptop.
We are bringing the rest.

Sunday · July 5, 2026 · 10AM to 18PM · Bengaluru