Nicole
A long candlelit dinner table at Dio Deka, with guests in conversation

The Robotics Inner Circle 路 Dio Deka, Los Gatos 路 GTC week, March 2026

Robots are getting good fast. Now they need somewhere to run.

We stepped out of the GTC rush.

GTC week is a blur of badges, booths and back-to-back panels. I wanted the opposite: one long table, the right people, and a night where everyone actually slows down. So we co-hosted a private dinner with RoboStrategy, right as GTC week kicked off.

The place cards

A handwritten card at every seat.

Every guest had a handwritten place card. Robotics founders, high-conviction VCs and AI infrastructure, seated on purpose so the right conversations would start on their own.

  • Capital
  • Robotics and embodied AI
  • Industry
  • Hosts

At the table: NEA, Khosla Ventures, Temasek, Agility Robotics, Schaeffler, Mach Industries and more.

CEOs, partners and a head of humanoid robotics, around one table.

The guest list was by invitation only: founders and CEOs, managing partners, a head of humanoid robotics, researchers. The kind of room where a dinner turns into three follow-up meetings.

Nicole raising a glass in front of the Robotics Inner Circle slide
Opening toast.
Dinner guests gathered at Dio Deka
Conversation around the Robotics Inner Circle dinner table

36 seatsinvite onlyco-hosted with RoboStrategyGTC week