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Two beats. One frontier.

Roma Tech AI focuses on the two technology stacks reshaping the physical world. Everything we publish — courses, dispatches, interviews — sits inside these tracks.

Physical AI

Embodied intelligence, end-to-end.

From sensor fusion to whole-body manipulation — we unpack how today's humanoids, robot arms, and field robots actually think and act.

  • Vision-language-action (VLA) models
  • Sim2Real & differentiable physics
  • Foundation models for robotics
  • Tactile sensing & dexterous control
Autonomous Driving

From perception to policy.

The full AV stack — sensors, planners, prediction, end-to-end driving — broken down by engineers who have shipped to production fleets.

  • End-to-end vs modular stacks
  • Occupancy networks & BEV
  • Behavior prediction at scale
  • Safety cases & ODD design
Curriculum

Courses built by people who shipped the systems.

Every course is co-authored by working engineers — from Waymo, Wayve, Figure, NVIDIA, and Tesla — and updated as the field moves.

Foundations6h

Embodied AI 101

A conceptual map of perception, planning, and control across robots and self-driving cars.

CrossoverSyllabus →
Intermediate14h

Building a BEV Perception Stack

From multi-camera calibration to occupancy networks — implement a modern BEV pipeline in PyTorch.

Autonomous DrivingSyllabus →
Advanced18h

End-to-End Driving with VLA Models

Train and evaluate a tokenized driving policy — covering data curation, RL fine-tuning, and closed-loop sim.

Autonomous DrivingSyllabus →
Foundations10h

Robot Learning, From Scratch

MDPs, behavior cloning, and diffusion policies — the math and the code, side by side.

Physical AISyllabus →
Intermediate12h

Humanoids: Whole-Body Control

MPC, RL, and hybrid stacks. Hands-on with MuJoCo and Isaac Lab; deploy a walking policy.

Physical AISyllabus →
Advanced20h

Foundation Models for Robotics

Pretraining, post-training, and Sim2Real for VLAs — built around π0, OpenVLA, and friends.

Physical AISyllabus →
The Dispatch

Original reporting from the frontier.

Weekly stories on the companies, papers, and engineers building physical AI and self-driving.

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Long read

What Tesla's FSD v13 actually changed under the hood

A frame-by-frame teardown of the new end-to-end stack — and what its driving behavior reveals about its training data.

Roma Tech Editorial18 min
Interview

Inside Figure's path to a useful humanoid

An hour with Figure's perception lead on data, reward shaping, and the company's bet on a single foundation model.

Q. Ma32 min
Dispatch

Why every AV team is rebuilding around occupancy networks

Occupancy is eating BEV. Here's what changed in 2026, who's leading, and how to evaluate one.

Dispatch · Issue 416 min
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