Events highlight campus energy around physical AI

Hovde Hall at Purdue University.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —

The Institute for Physical Artificial Intelligence (IPAI) at Purdue University is sponsoring three events that signal growing campuswide energy around the development of artificial intelligence and its application in the physical world. On March 26, IPAI will host the first in a series of panels on physical AI, which will be followed by the Robotics and Intelligence Systems Expo (RISE) on March 30 and the student-organized Catapult hackathon March 30-31.

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Media contact: Mary Martialay, mmartial@purdue.edu

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