The Simplest Robotics Tech Meetup, at IROS 2025 | Linear Event

Next week, IROS — a major event in robotics — will bring top talent from across the industry to Hangzhou. During the day, packed conference agendas will fill your brain with cutting-edge research. But the questions you really want to dig into? Those rarely get resolved in a few minutes at a Poster Session.

That's why on the evening of October 23, Linear Capital and Guixingren (硅星人) are taking over a venue for a "drunkenly" simple and "drunkenly" honest night of robotics talk. We've lined up heavyweight guests for exclusive sharing sessions, plus open mic slots for participants to sign up. And of course, for an evening like this, food and drinks are essential.

Limited spots available. Register now while you can. Scan the QR code on the poster or click "Read More" to sign up!

From October 19 to October 25, the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025) will be held in Hangzhou, China.

It's been 19 years since IROS last came to China, and the timing coincides with a critical moment of rapid growth in the robotics industry — making IROS 2025 an ideal window for discussion and an unmatched networking opportunity.

During the day, you'll attend Keynotes, browse Posters, and sit through Oral Sessions, your mind saturated with frontier results. But the conversations you actually want to have? The ones that need real depth? They don't fit into a few rushed minutes at a Poster Session.

So on the evening of October 23, we're taking over a venue — Guixingren × Linear Capital invites you to a "drunkenly" simple, "drunkenly" honest night of robotics talk.

The failed iterations behind that demo, what investors are actually saying right now, the war stories of engineers who've stumbled through mass production — let's get it all on the table.

Let ideas accelerate in a relaxed atmosphere. This is a robotics gathering that doesn't require an Abstract, where you can bring a beer and just talk. Here's what we've prepared:

▍4 Guest Speakers Topics include but are not limited to:

• From academia to mass production: how many pitfalls lie in between?
• Through a capital lens: entrepreneurial trends in robotics for 2026
• The embodied intelligence melee: which direction will it converge toward?

▍2 Open Mic Slots Open registration, no fixed topic — come share your observations, confusions, or gripes

▍Food, Drinks + Free-form Networking Bring your questions and your glass, find your "industry people," and dig into the details you couldn't get to during the day

You'll meet:

• Researchers who just made their mark at IROS, ready to tell you about the failed versions that never made it into the paper;
• Founders in the trenches of robotics entrepreneurship, who can tell you exactly how many mountains stand between the lab and the production line;
• Investors tracking frontier sectors, breaking down the real opportunity windows for robotics entrepreneurship in 2026;

Scan the code to register now. We'll reach out individually once your application is approved.

The conference ends, but the thinking doesn't. See you in Hangzhou on the evening of October 23!