Dallas Showed Up: F50 PHYSICAL AI SUMMIT 2026 Recap

📅 June 11, 2026 📍 Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center, UT Dallas 🌐 physical.f50.ai

Co-hosted by F50 · Physical AI Builders · UT Dallas School of Management · AI Space Podcast

On June 11, the Physical AI movement converged on Dallas — and delivered a great, highest-signal summit in the series to date.

240 attendees. 40 speakers. 2 stages. 5 tracks. One unmistakable message: Texas is where Physical AI gets used, built, and potential financed in the future.

Corporate executives from Microsoft, HPE, Fujitsu, Walmart, Amazon, and UnitedHealth. Frontier founders in robotics, embodied AI, and smart manufacturing. Industrial leaders from the Texas–Mexico manufacturing corridor. All in one room, for one day, with capital formation as the agenda.

📸 Relive the day: We captured 200+ photos across nearly every session and speaker. Browse our curated selection of ~ highlights here: 👉

https://photos.app.goo.gl/jwMVXszwF2e3jH277

Our home for Dallas 2026 was the Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas — and it set a new bar for the series. Two full stages running in parallel, dedicated exhibition space with live demos on the floor, and room for the conversations that turn into term sheets. Thank you to UT Dallas School of Management for being an extraordinary host and academic partner.

The format: 2 stages · 5 tracks — Capital Formation & Investor Forum, Growing-Stage Spotlights, Enterprise Session, Tech Talk Stage, and the Physical AI Startup Showcase.

Opening & Welcome David Cao (Managing Partner, F50 | Physical AI Builders) opened the summit, joined by Sanjay Kalluvilayil (Host, AI Space Podcast) who welcomed the Physical AI community to campus.

Welcome remark by Gaurav Shekhar (Associate Dean, Naveen Jindal School of Management, UT Dallas ),

Insights from Dallas 2026 — and from across our Silicon Valley and Austin summits — will feed directly into two flagship publications:

Fireside chat Ian Villa, Co-founder, Whisper Aero John Gowan KickStage Ventures

Fireside Chat: Capital Formation in the Physical World Jaleh Daie, PhD (Managing Partner, Aurora Equity) in conversation with Anupam Govil (Managing Partner, Avasant) — where patient capital is actually flowing in robotics, manufacturing, and industrial infrastructure.

Growing-Stage Spotlights — Super Innovator Showcase

Two Super Innovator Panel: What Breakthrough Actually Means in Physical AI Moderated by Sanjay Kalluvilayil (AI Space Podcast), and also Sheng Huang

Enterprise Session (Main Stage)

Physical AI Ecosystem Partners Panel Gaurav Shekhar (UT Dallas), and Sanjay Kalluvilayil (AI Space Podcast) Circuit Launch — Alex Dantas , CEO on building the Physical AI stack across academia, community, media, and standards.

Panel: Community to Empower Physical AI Innovation Moderated by Sanjay Kalluvilayil ilayil (Host, AI Space Podcast), with Wendi R. Wilburn (CEO, TechTitans), Raj Daniels (Chairman, Dallas India Chamber of Commerce), and Cynthia Heyn (UTDesign Capstone).

Presentatgions

Tech Talk Stage (Parallel Track)

Physical AI Startup Showcase — 4-Minute Pitches + Q&AModerated by Sheng Huang, the showcase put a rapid-fire lineup of Physical AI startups in front of a room of active investors and corporate buyers:→ Urbot.ai — Rich Zou→ Kytyra — Sonia Dagan, CEO→ Viva AI — Ricardo Silva, CEO→ Noumenal Labs — Jason Fox, Chief Technology Officer→ And more.Four minutes on the clock, live Q&A, and real check-writers in the audience.

Recordings and clips from every session will begin publishing on our YouTube channel in about one week. Subscribe now so you don't miss your favorite sessions: 👉 youtube.com/@f50f50

🎙 And check out the new Physical AI Podcast: 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4EvI-x5YLxN3-KZCGKF0rdpZJBX0V3YY

Stay tuned — both reports will be announced through this newsletter and at 50builders.ai.

Dallas 2026 was made possible by an exceptional co-hosting team:

And thank you to every sponsor, partner, exhibitor, volunteer, and attendee who made the room what it was.

The series comes home. On October 15, 2026, the F50 Physical AI Summit returns to where it all began — Austin, Texas — at the Commons Conference Center, UT Austin. One year after the inaugural summit, this is the flagship close to a breakthrough year. And this one is the home run.

Get involved now:

🎤 Speak — We are curating keynotes, panels, and tech talks for Austin 2026. Apply: [email protected]

🤝 Sponsor — Put your brand in front of corporate and government buyers deploying $50M–$2B budgets. Prospectus: physical.f50.ai/sponsorship · 📧 [email protected]

🤖 Demo — Show your live system — humanoids, manipulators, autonomous platforms, smart factory tools — on a curated exhibition floor of 300+ decision-makers. Reserve: physical.f50.ai/sponsorship

🎟 Attend — Space is limited and curated. Apply: luma.com/7szmkhza

🚀 Growing-stage startups raising $15M+ — apply to present on the main stage: physical.f50.ai/present

Dallas in June. Austin in October. Texas is where Physical AI gets financed and built.