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10th Austin Hardware Meetup | AI & Hardware

The 10th Austin Hardware Meetup pairs two talks on applied AI — Amazon's AI-Ops for robotic fulfillment centers and ambient AI devices for family connection — plus a community open-mic demo segment.

Tue, Jul 21, 5:00 PMJohnston Terrace, Austin, TX

Why it matters

Edge and robotics AI workloads have different cost constraints than chat agents — Gal Tamir's fulfillment-network talk is a case study in running AI-Ops at scale where inference cost hits operational throughput directly.

The tokenmaxxing angle

Robotic fulfillment AI-Ops and ambient home AI devices both need cheap, low-latency edge inference, making model routing and cost-per-inference decisions as central as they are for cloud LLM agents.

From the organizers

Confirmed speakers: Gal Tamir, Ph.D. (Senior Manager, Amazon) on AI-Ops for robotic fulfillment networks, and James Pratt (Co-Founder & CEO, Fyve Health) on ambient AI devices; sponsored by Beckhoff Automation.