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Physical Hardware Intelligence (Phi)

Silicon Valley’s hands-on robotics and embodied-AI club, open to all students regardless of college or program

Physical Hardware Intelligence, or Phi, is Northeastern Silicon Valley’s hands-on robotics and embodied-AI club. We build real robots and run real learning policies on them, so students from any program get a low-barrier, high-ceiling entry into physical AI. Anchored on the open-source, low-cost SO-101 robot arm and 3D-printed robot platforms, we turn classroom AI into hardware you can touch, program, and demo. We are a building club, not a talking club: every member leaves having actually made a robot move. We are the campus’s first student robotics club, open to all SV students regardless of college or program.

Process to join

Open; no application required

Club details

Location

Silicon Valley

Degree level

Graduate students

Advisor

Ilmi Yoon

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