TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 推出 Real World AI 舞台，聚焦数字与物理世界交融

在我们过去的 TechCrunch Disrupt 活动中，人工智能一直是关注的焦点，无论是在整个节目安排中，还是在独立的舞台上。今年，这项技术、其影响以及相关参与者发展如此迅速且普遍，以至于我们将原本的单一 AI 舞台扩展为两个！

AI 舞台：https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/discover-whats-next-for-ai-from-the-saas-reckoning-to-the-agent-security-gap-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/ 将照常进行，你可以在这里查看会议和演讲者名单。但“现实世界 AI 舞台”是 TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 的全新舞台：https://techcrunch.com/events/techcrunch-disrupt/tickets/?utm_source=tc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=disrupt2026&utm_content=speakers&promo=post_realworldai_072772026&display=TRUE。

在这个舞台上，我们将重点关注数字与物理之间的交汇点，以及随着自主硬件超越自动驾驶汽车并进入公共空间、战场、家庭，甚至有可能帮助灭绝物种重返地球的各种方式，我们将继续看到两者的融合。

这是一个内容丰富的阵容，演讲嘉宾来自 Shield AI、Colossal Biosciences、FieldAI、Foxglove 等，还有更多嘉宾即将公布。你可以在 10 月 13 日至 15 日参加旧金山 Moscone West 的所有精彩活动，立即注册参会：https://techcrunch.com/events/techcrunch-disrupt/tickets/?utm_source=tc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=disrupt2026&utm_content=speakers&promo=post_realworldai_072772026&display=TRUE

与此同时，以下是我们“现实世界 AI 舞台”阵容的详细介绍：

大型语言模型掌握了互联网。自动驾驶汽车拥有数百万小时的道路数据。机器人则两者皆无。这一数据差距是大多数专家认为通用机器人智能仍然还有几年时间的最大原因，尽管 AI 的其他领域突破层出不穷。一波新的初创公司正在加速弥补这一差距，构建数据管道、仿真环境和基础模型，这可能引发与大型语言模型同样的能力爆炸。本次会议提出了一个艰难的问题：物理 AI 的 ChatGPT 时刻究竟需要哪些条件，我们真正离它有多近？

与英伟达物理人工智能负责人 Les Karpas 一同

当人工智能进入物理世界时，失败的后果会发生变化。一次错误可能导致飞机停飞、车辆事故或任务受损。

在本次会议中，正在打造自动驾驶汽车、防务技术和工业系统的领导者将讨论每一个硬科技创始人都必须面对的最困难问题之一：您如何知道您的系统已经准备好可以安全部署？

我们将深入探讨创始人如何建立安全文化、测试和验证人工智能、应对监管障碍，以及如何在关键时刻建立值得信赖的公司。

本·拉姆通过将“灭绝复生”从科幻变成数十亿美元的商业，打造了科技界最具争议的公司之一。在这次炉边谈话中，Colossal Biosciences 的首席执行官将讨论用于复活灭绝物种的技术、人工智能在现代生物学中的作用，以及工程自然是否是保护突破还是分散注意力的不断争论。

与 Colossal Biosciences 首席执行官本·拉姆

世界上最有价值的人工智能部署往往发生在云无法覆盖的地方。而为这些场景构建需要不同的技术策略。

本次会议汇集了来自国防、空间和工业人工智能领域的领导者，他们将分享如何应对在边缘环境中使人工智能发挥作用的挑战——在这里延迟至关重要，连接受限，失败不可接受。预计将获得关于架构原则、设计决策和权衡的实用经验，这些经验使以人工智能为中心的系统能够在现实世界中运作。

与 Dr. Ali Agha, FieldAI 首席执行官及创始人；Michelle Lee, Medra 首席执行官及创始人；以及 Aidan Madigan-Curtis, Eclipse Ventures 合伙人

一个能工作的原型不是产品。一个出货的产品不是规模化业务。每个阶段之间的差距是大多数深科技初创公司失败的地方。创始人可能拥有正确的团队和技术，但他们未能理解将一个原型投入生产并最终扩大到更高、可盈利的规模所需的条件。

本次会议汇聚了在空间硬件、人形机器人和自主系统领域跨越鸿沟的创业者。他们将分享自己犯过的错误、希望早些做出的事情，以及在供应链和制造现实取代实验室条件时，从原型到量产的旅程是怎样的。

嘉宾包括 John Mackey，MBRYONICS 首席执行官、联合创始人；Boris Sofman，Bedrock Robotics 联合创始人兼首席执行官；以及 Adrian Macneil，Foxglove 首席执行官

Disrupt 2026 还为你准备了更多内容——毕竟，这只是一个舞台的节目！为了让你了解还能获取哪些内容，我们还宣布了：

加入 10 月 13 日至 15 日在旧金山举办的 Disrupt 2026：https://techcrunch.com/events/techcrunch-disrupt/tickets/?utm_source=tc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=disrupt2026&utm_content=speakers&promo=post_realworldai_072772026&display=TRUE，这里将有超过 10,000 名创业、科技及风险投资领域的领袖齐聚三天，分享见解、参加 Startup Battlefield、进行无与伦比的交流，并可进入所有舞台和展览区。

今天就注册！：https://techcrunch.com/events/techcrunch-disrupt/tickets/?utm_source=tc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=disrupt2026&utm_content=speakers&promo=post_realworldai_072772026&display=TRUE

当你通过我们文章中的链接购买时，我们可能会获得少量佣金：https://techcrunch.com/techcrunch-affiliate-monetization-standards/。这不会影响我们的编辑独立性。

不要错过。创业社区将聚集讨论一个关键问题：如何在 AI 时代实现可持续构建？

挪威考虑禁止带摄像头的可穿戴“变态眼镜”：https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/norway-considers-ban-on-camera-enabled-wearable-pervert-glasses/ 记者 Zack Whittaker：https://techcrunch.com/author/zack-whittaker/

优步正在裁员10%，即3300人：https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/uber-is-laying-off-10-of-staff-or-3300-people/ Ram Iyer：https://techcrunch.com/author/ram-iyer/

苹果分享对前员工被指为 OpenAI 窃取公司数据的“惊人证据”：https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/apple-shares-shocking-evidence-against-former-employee-accused-of-stealing-company-data-for-openai/ 阿曼达·西尔伯林：https://techcrunch.com/author/amanda-silberling/

微软测试修复最新的长时间 Outlook 服务中断：https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/microsoft-tests-fix-for-latest-hours-long-outlook-outage/ 莎拉·佩雷斯：https://techcrunch.com/author/sarah-perez/

MapQuest 应用在拒绝重命名安大略湖后冲到导航榜首：https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/mapquests-app-surges-to-no-1-in-navigation-after-refusing-to-rename-lake-ontario/ 莎拉·佩雷斯：https://techcrunch.com/author/sarah-perez/

Hugging Face 销售可爱的 399 美元开源小鸭机器人 Microduck：https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/hugging-face-is-selling-a-cute-399-open-source-duck-robot-microduck/ 丽贝卡·贝兰：https://techcrunch.com/author/rebecca-bellan/

英伟达接近收购 Hugging Face：https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/nvidia-closes-in-on-hugging-face-acquisition/ 康妮·洛伊佐斯：https://techcrunch.com/author/connie-loizos/

At our past TechCrunch Disrupt events, AI has taken center stage, both throughout our programming and in a stage of its own. This year, the technology, implications, and players are so rapidly developing and widespread that we’re expanding the single AI stage into two!

The AI Stage：https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/discover-whats-next-for-ai-from-the-saas-reckoning-to-the-agent-security-gap-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/ will continue as you’d expect, with a rundown of sessions and speakers available for review right here. But the Real World AI Stage is brand-new for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026：https://techcrunch.com/events/techcrunch-disrupt/tickets/?utm_source=tc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=disrupt2026&utm_content=speakers&promo=post_realworldai_072772026&display=TRUE.

On this stage, we’ll be focusing on that intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two, as autonomous hardware goes beyond self-driving cars and enters public spaces, battlefields, our homes, and even potentially helps extinct species reenter Earth.

It’s a packed lineup featuring speakers from Shield AI, Colossal Biosciences, FieldAI, Foxglove, and more still to come. You can join in on all the excitement October 13 to 15 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, so register to attend right here.：https://techcrunch.com/events/techcrunch-disrupt/tickets/?utm_source=tc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=disrupt2026&utm_content=speakers&promo=post_realworldai_072772026&display=TRUE

But in the meantime, here’s the breakdown of our Real World AI Stage lineup:

Large language models had the internet. Self-driving cars have millions of hours of road data. Robots have neither. That data gap is the single biggest reason most experts believe general-purpose robotic intelligence is still years away, despite the breakthroughs happening everywhere else in AI. A new wave of startups is racing to close it, building the data pipelines, simulation environments, and foundation models that could trigger the same capability explosion we saw with LLMs. This session asks the hard question: what does the ChatGPT moment for physical AI actually require, and how close are we really?

With Les Karpas, Head of Physical AI, Nvidia

When AI enters the physical world, the consequences of failure change. A mistake could lead to a grounded aircraft, a vehicle crash, or a compromised mission.

In this session, leaders who are building autonomous vehicles, defense technologies, and industrial systems will talk about one of the toughest questions that every hard tech founder must face: How do you know when your system is ready to be safely deployed?

We’ll dig into how founders can create a safety culture, test and validate AI, navigate regulatory hurdles, and build companies that can earn trust when the stakes are high.

Ben Lamm has built one of the most controversial companies in tech by turning de-extinction from science fiction into a billion-dollar business. In this fireside chat, the Colossal Biosciences CEO will discuss the technologies used to revive extinct species, the role AI plays in modern biology, and the growing debate over whether engineering nature is a conservation breakthrough or a distraction from protecting what’s already here.

With Ben Lamm, CEO, Colossal Biosciences

The most valuable AI deployments in the world operate where the cloud can’t reach. And building for them requires a different technological playbook.

This session brings together leaders from defense, space, and industrial AI who will share how they have tackled the challenge of making AI work at the edge — where latency matters, connectivity is limited, and failure isn’t an option. Expect practical lessons on architectural principles, design decisions, and trade-offs that make AI-centric systems work in the real world.

With Dr. Ali Agha, CEO and founder of FieldAI; Michelle Lee, CEO and founder, Medra; and Aidan Madigan-Curtis, partner, Eclipse Ventures

A prototype that works is not a product. A product that ships is not a scaled business. The gap between each of those stages is where most deep tech startups die. Founders might have the right team and tech, but they fail to understand what it takes to bring a prototype into production and eventually scale to higher, profitable volumes.

This session brings together founders who have crossed that gap in space hardware, humanoid robotics, and autonomous systems. They’ll share what they got wrong, what they’d do earlier, and what the prototype-to-production journey looks like when supply chains and manufacturing realities replace lab conditions.

With John Mackey, CEO, co-founder, MBRYONICS; Boris Sofman, co-founder and CEO, Bedrock Robotics; and Adrian Macneil, CEO, Foxglove

There’s plenty more in store for you at Disrupt 2026 — after all, that’s just one stage’s worth of programming! For a sense of what else you’ll get to access, we’ve also announced the:

Be part of Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco from October 13–15：https://techcrunch.com/events/techcrunch-disrupt/tickets/?utm_source=tc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=disrupt2026&utm_content=speakers&promo=post_realworldai_072772026&display=TRUE, where more than 10,000 startup, tech, and VC leaders come together for three days of insights, Startup Battlefield, unparalleled networking, and access to every stage and the exhibition floor.

Register today! ：https://techcrunch.com/events/techcrunch-disrupt/tickets/?utm_source=tc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=disrupt2026&utm_content=speakers&promo=post_realworldai_072772026&display=TRUE

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Don’t miss out . The startup community will gather to answer a pivotal question: How do you build sustainably in the AI era?

Norway considers ban on camera-enabled wearable ‘pervert glasses’：https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/norway-considers-ban-on-camera-enabled-wearable-pervert-glasses/ Zack Whittaker：https://techcrunch.com/author/zack-whittaker/

Uber is laying off 10% of staff, or 3,300 people：https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/uber-is-laying-off-10-of-staff-or-3300-people/ Ram Iyer：https://techcrunch.com/author/ram-iyer/

Apple shares ‘shocking evidence’ against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAI：https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/apple-shares-shocking-evidence-against-former-employee-accused-of-stealing-company-data-for-openai/ Amanda Silberling：https://techcrunch.com/author/amanda-silberling/

Microsoft tests fix for latest hours-long Outlook outage：https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/microsoft-tests-fix-for-latest-hours-long-outlook-outage/ Sarah Perez：https://techcrunch.com/author/sarah-perez/

MapQuest’s app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario：https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/mapquests-app-surges-to-no-1-in-navigation-after-refusing-to-rename-lake-ontario/ Sarah Perez：https://techcrunch.com/author/sarah-perez/

Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck：https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/hugging-face-is-selling-a-cute-399-open-source-duck-robot-microduck/ Rebecca Bellan：https://techcrunch.com/author/rebecca-bellan/

Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition：https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/nvidia-closes-in-on-hugging-face-acquisition/ Connie Loizos：https://techcrunch.com/author/connie-loizos/