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TechCrunch returns to Berkeley this April for TC Sessions: Robotics + AI

Who doesn’t love robotics? And who doesn’t love robotics and AI together for the first time? Take it all in at TC Sessions: Robotics + AI at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall on April 18, 2019. Get your tickets today at the Early Bird discount of $249 while they last. Students, we even have deeply discounted $45 tickets just for you!

TC Sessions: Robotics at UC Berkeley last year and MIT the year prior were epic by any standard. The speakers were the titans in the field — including Helen Greiner (CyPhyWorks), Rodney Brooks (ReThink Robotics), Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley), Martin Buehler (Disney), Tye Brady (Amazon Robotics), Daniela Rus (MIT), Ayanna Howard (Georgia Tech), Homayoon Kazerooni (UC Berkeley, Ekso Bionics) and many, many more.

At both events, we noticed a focus on AI within robotics, which emerged in almost every session onstage. So this year, artificial intelligence will officially be a part of the event theme.

At TC Sessions: Robotics + AI, TechCrunch’s editors will run a full day of interviews and demos on the main stage and in parallel there will be workshops and networking sessions. Based on our past robotics events, we’re expecting an audience of more than 1,000 people, overwhelmingly made up of engineering students, technologists, founders and investors. So if you fall into one of those categories, please mark your calendars and join TechCrunch on April 18, 2019.

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