The AI 🧠 SIG 🤓 Discussion Group Meets TONIGHT 🌛 ! : 1. Open Claw, the AI Agent ✨ 2. Building your own ✨AI Chatbot 🧠✨ : 7 - 8:00ish PM Pacific time! (3/26)

[Thomas Messerschmidt]

The AI 🧠 SIG 🤓 Discussion Group Meets TONIGHT 🌛 ! : 1. Open Claw, the AI Agent ✨ 2. Building your own ✨AI Chatbot 🧠✨ : 7 - 8:00ish PM Pacific time! (3/26)

TONIGHT'S AGENDA

✨ Popular AI (7:00 Pacific Time) 

     AI in the News (about 5 minutes)

     Surprise Demo: Running a verbal I/O AI chatbot in ROS 2 (5 minute demo) 

✨ OpenClaw, the AI Agent

     What is it? 

     How do you use it?

     Demonstration

✨ Advanced AI (7:30ish Pacific Time)

    Course: Building an AI chatbot from scratch part 5. (This is an advanced course and will move fast.)



PLEASE REMIND ME TO RECORD THE MEETING!


Future Discussions for 2026:

-  Adding a Chatbot to Your Robot

-  Adding a Camera and Vision AI to Your Robot

-  Robot Navigation by AI and a Camera

-  Owl2 for local object identification/detection/classification

-  Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models models for robotics (LeRobot (SO-100 arm))



Join the Zoom Meeting:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88515744737?pwd=aa7GV5BwfmsTW3A9ynTIPA9F2nSUCb.1

Meeting ID: 885 1574 4737, Passcode: 456557

 

Come join us for fun, informative and enlightening discussions of interactive AI!

 

See you there!

 

Thomas Messerschmidt

Publications

• The AI Dictionary (Amazon / Kindle Books)
• A VERY Gentle Introduction to LLM AI (To be published mid-2026)
• ChatGPT API Handbook (Amazon / Kindle Books)
• The Mockbot – a ROS 2 Smart Table (Contributing author. Amazon / Kindle Books)
• Creating a ChatGPT Vector Store (Amazon / Kindle Books)
• Creating a ChatGPT RAG Pipeline (Amazon / Kindle Books)
• Build Your Own LLM (To be published mid-2026)


Need something prototyped, built or coded? I’ve been building prototypes for companies for 15 years. I am now incorporating generative AI into products.

Contact me directly or through LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ai-robotics/