Suggested Activities

Discover local events and activities happening around RSS 2025 to make the most of your visit to Los Angeles.

Bites, Bots, and Board Games (June 22, 2025)#

• Date: Sunday, June 22nd at 8 - 11 pm
• Location: Yondu HQ - 1262 W 134th St., Gardena, CA 90247
• Transportation: Uber/Lyft to the location (20 min ride).

After a long weekend of attending talks and workshops at RSS, come have fun, make new friends, and eat delicious food at the Yondu warehouse. We’ll kickoff the night with a lab tour where you’ll get to teleoperate wheeled humanoid robots and meet our team. Then, we’ll enjoy a catered dinner from a local sushi restaurant in Gardena (vegetarian options available). We’ll end off the night with all sorts of board games, music, and ice cream.

Let us know you’re coming here: https://lu.ma/43oybm6l

Comedy Show Headlined by a Robot (June 23, 2025)#

Coincident with RSS 2025, Dr. Naomi Fitter (associate professor at Oregon State University and professional stand-up comedian) is running a comedy show in Santa Monica, an easy ride from USC’s campus.

Get your tickets here before they sell out! Enjoy $5 off with the discount code: RSS2025

The show features:

• Jon the Robot, an autonomous robotic stand-up comedian. You might recognize Naomi and her robotic sidekick from TIME Magazine in 2022 and NPR in 2024.

Other acts include:

• Jackie Kashian, creator of the New York Times-endorsed Dork Forest podcast and frequent performer on late night TV (e.g., Conan, Comedy Central)
• Dr. Ajitesh Srivastava, a professor by day and comedy performer by night

TRI - RSS Women & Allies Breakfast (June 24, 2025)#

Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is organizing a women & allies breakfast on June 24th! It is open to all RSS participants and completely free of charge.

Please register here to attend before the capacity limit is reached.

• When: Tuesday, June 24th at 8 - 9 am
• Where: The Franklin Suite, TCC 350/351/352 (click here to see it on Google Maps)

LeRobot Hackathon (June 14–15, 2025)#

Heading to RSS? Join us the weekend before for the LeRobot Hackathon in LA! 🤖

Yondu AI is hosting the Los Angeles branch of the global LeRobot Hackathon at our warehouse in Gardena, 1 week before the RSS Conference kicks off. Whether you’re deep into robot learning, love tinkering with hardware, or have a really cool project you’ve been wanting to build forever, build it here!

We will not just have SO-100s, but wheeled humanoid robots, bimanual mobile manipulators, tabletop bimanual arms, and more! You’ll get help from our team and a great opportunity to experiment and build any project you can dream up.

Details

🗓 June 14–15, 2025
📍 1262 W 134th Street, Gardena, CA (LA area)
💡 Free registration | No experience required

What to Expect

✅ 30+ hours of global hacking
✅ Real robots, real code, real impact
✅ A friendly, open-source vibe
✅ Tutorials to get you started fast
✅ Online + in-person collaboration
✅ Great people, great energy

If you’re landing in LA for RSS — why not come a few days early and build something cool with us?

Register here https://lnkd.in/gYJccwJ9 and bring a friend + join the lerobot discord: https://lnkd.in/d6S42PxY

Stay tuned — we may add more local events and activities to this page as the conference approaches!