2026-11-04 –, Lightning Stage
Many teams with roots in blockchain moved to work on AI infrastructure, hardware, and robotics. Examples include OpenRouter, Menlo, CoreWeave, and many others. I will talk about about the ideas of open source robotics for humanoids, dextrous hands, edge compute deployments, satellites, healthcare devices and other. I will discuss the global supply chain crunch, and how we can design more accessible infrastructure and automation for edge independence.
By the time of the presentation I will have assembled by myself an open source Menlo robot (I am one of the first buyers globally and in the first batch of people that will receive components - I will be assembling it in Singapore in September. I am also planning to assemble open source orca hand.
Links:
Open source robotics: https://menlo.ai/handbook/about
Open source robotic hand: https://www.orcahand.com/
Sovereign satellites: https://www.exosat.com/
Sovereign AI: https://venice.ai/
Edge Compute: https://www.armada.ai/
Stories of blockchain to AI infra:
https://www.coreweave.com/
https://openrouter.ai/
Tomasz K. Stańczak is the founder of Complete Robot, an AI-native company accelerating data centre and energy infrastructure buildout. Established through the HF0 residency in San Francisco, the company brings together land, power and project delivery, combining AI and robotics with experienced engineers and operators.
He is also the founder of Nethermind, an Ethereum core development and infrastructure company behind one of the protocol’s leading execution client teams— and previously served as Co-Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation.