Welcome Robotics Enthusiasts!

​RSSC is an active hobby robotics club formed in 1989.
Our primary goal is to promote and advance the art of robotics and the surrounding technologies by providing a fun and exciting meeting place where people of all ages and from all walks of life, from the novice to the large-brained pocket-protector-wearing robot guru, may gather and exchange knowledge information and ideas.

Our Monthly Meetup @ CSULB!

Please join us on Saturday, January 10th at 10:00am for our next *in person* Meetup!

We're at Cal State Long Beach
1331 Palo Verde Ave., Long Beach CA 90815 
​Come in through the front door, we'll be there.

Here's what's on the agenda...
9:30 am :
The Doors open.  Stop by early and say hi!  Or log in early to make sure your mic works.  We'll be here.
9:45 am :
(Business Meeting)
10:00 am :
Teaching Alfie New Tricks with GR00T N1.6 Part 1:  The Training Pipeline
What does it take to fine-tune a humanoid foundation model on your own robot? In part one, we're breaking down the entire training pipeline—how to capture example behaviors on Alfie, wrangle them into the format GR00T N1.6 expects, and get everything staged for fine-tuning. Part two brings the payoff: teaching Alfie to spot, localize, and grab a soda can! (Alan)
11:00 am :
See, Think, Do: A Practical Framework for VLM-Driven Robotics on NVIDIA Jetson​
In this talk e’ll explore how to add real-time vision intelligence to a robot using Vision-Language Models running on low-power NVIDIA Jetson hardware. We’ll go beyond perception and dive into what it actually takes to refactor existing robot behaviors into AI-callable tools, and how to design prompts that allow an LLM to reason, select actions, and chain behaviors intelligently. The result is a practical framework for building robots that can see, understand, and act autonomously in dynamic environments! (Jim)
12:00 pm :
30 minute grab-n-go Lunch Break
12:30 pm :
Announcements / Show-n-Tell / Open Session.  It's a great opportunity to ask questions and get advice.  Our members will bring in their projects and share what we've been up to.  Are you working on something?  Bring it in!
​Join us on Zoom if you can't be there in person.

See you there!
​Links to individual topics:

00:00:00 Club Meeting Introductions

00:01:24 Teaching Alfie New Tricks with GR00T N1.6 Part 1: The Training Pipeline What does it take to fine-tune a humanoid foundation model on your own robot? In part one, we're breaking down the entire training pipeline—how to capture example behaviors on Alfie, wrangle them into the format GR00T N1.6 expects, and get everything staged for fine-tuning. Part two brings the payoff: teaching Alfie to spot, localize, and grab a soda can! (Alan)

00:53:41 See, Think, Do: A Practical Framework for VLM-Driven Robotics on NVIDIA Jetson​In this talk e’ll explore how to add real-time vision intelligence to a robot using Vision-Language Models running on low-power NVIDIA Jetson hardware. We’ll go beyond perception and dive into what it actually takes to refactor existing robot behaviors into AI-callable tools, and how to design prompts that allow an LLM to reason, select actions, and chain behaviors intelligently. The result is a practical framework for building robots that can see, understand, and act autonomously in dynamic environments! (Jim)

02:01:16 Show'n'Tell: (Andrew) Andrew talks about his autonomous rc car and ask for battery recommendations

02:13:58 Show'n'Tell: (Jim) Progress on his lego mindstorms robot for the competition next month!

02:18:44 Show'n'Tell: (JimU) Demo with his custom robot for the competition next month!

02:26:22 Show'n'Tell: (Brian) Demo with his custom robot for the competition next month!

02:33:49 Show'n'Tell: (Ben) Progress with designing the robot claw for the competition next month!

02:37:44 Show'n'Tell: (Alan) Progress on Alfie showing teleoperation, then having others take him for a spin!
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