Pittsburgh Tech Week 2026

Breakout Builders: Innovation for the Public Good

Physical AI, Built Where It Started

Breakout Builders brings more than 100 founders, funders, and civic leaders to Pittsburgh to look at how AI and advanced technology can genuinely benefit the people who live and work in the cities building it. Gather AI CEO Sankalp Arora joins the conversation with the company’s own story: computer vision research out of Carnegie Mellon that grew into a platform running in warehouses across the country today.

What to Expect

• Sankalp Arora on what it took to turn warehouse perception, a problem almost no one had solved, into a company built on Pittsburgh’s research base.

• A look at how Physical AI, technology that observes and reasons over the real world, moves out of the lab and onto the floor of the operations that run the economy.

• A chance to connect with the Gather AI team about where Physical AI for logistics goes next.