Ruggedize, first agtech conference for field-ready farm robots, draws builders and investors
Scobleizer · x · 2026-10-09
Ruggedize, a first-of-its-kind deep tech conference for agricultural robotics and the physical AI stack, gathered engineers, founders, and investors around the hard problems of deploying AI in real farmland: perception under dust and variable light, field-tied simulation and validation, autonomous operations, reliability and failure-mode engineering, system integration, and ROI-driven design. Speakers included Google DeepMind's Paige Bailey; the 2027 waitlist is open. Scoble toured the floor: "so many farming robots here."
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