Discover local events and activities happening around RSS 2025 to make the most of your visit to Los Angeles.
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
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:
Other acts include:
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.
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.
🗓 June 14–15, 2025
📍 1262 W 134th Street, Gardena, CA (LA area)
💡 Free registration | No experience required
✅ 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!