Humanoid Sound Bath

There is a very old human act in which one person holds a room through sound, striking bowls and a gong until the vibration moves through everyone present. It is an act of care, and it has always required a human hand. This time, the hand was built rather than born. We have grown used to imagining the robots of the future folding our laundry and carrying our boxes. But what if they also lead us through spiritual transformations? This is the first experiment we know of in which a humanoid performs this ancient ritual. You are invited to lie on the floor, among founders, researchers, and investors, and receive a sound bath performed by a humanoid robot, built by Tau Robotics. Afterward, we rise and speak. DRESS CODE: ALL WHITE --- Presented by Pebblebed - Technical early-stage VC founded by Pam Vagata (OpenAI co-founder, led AI at Stripe), Keith Adams (founder of Facebook AI Research, former Slack Chief Architect), and Tammie Siew (former Sequoia SEA investor). Performed by Tau Robotics is building a humanoid labor service to automate the real world. We are deploying our humanoid fleet early to real customers, combining AI control with human help at first. We learn world models from this data and use them as training environments for reinforcement learning to ultimately surpass human performance. Gunderson Dettmer is the preeminent international law firm with an exclusive focus on the innovation economy. The firm serves market-leading venture capital and growth equity investors and pioneering companies through inception, growth and maturity, as well as groundbreaking public companies that result from the global venture capital ecosystem. The firm’s focus and technical skill enables an accelerated pace and unmatched efficiency, delivering best-in-class value at each phase of a client’s business.