๐ December 11-12, 2025 in Pensacola
Watch the GOAT Racer drive itself around a track using cameras and AI. See how it learns to turn corners and avoid crashes without any help from humans. Pure adrenaline meets autonomous tech.
Step into NVIDIA's Omniverse and explore IsaacSimโa digital twin environment where robots learn before hitting the real track. Train AI in perfect simulation, then watch it dominate in reality. The vibes? Absolutely immaculate.
Build your own autonomous racer in our Intro Lab, Vision Lab, and Motor Lab. Work with real hardware like Jetson computers, Intel cameras, and VESC motor controllers. Get hands dirty, learn deep.
Digital Twin (IsaacSim)
Real GOAT Racer
Imagine teaching a robot to race by letting it practice in a video game first. That's exactly what we do with something called a digital twin.
A digital twin is like a copy of the real world inside a computer. We use NVIDIA's Omniverse and IsaacSim to create a virtual race track where our robot can learn to drive. The robot crashes, makes mistakes, and learnsโall without breaking anything in real life.
Think of it like learning to ride a bike in a video game before trying it outside. The robot tries thousands of different things in the simulation. It learns what works and what doesn't. Then, we use something called sim-to-real transfer to move what it learned from the video game to the actual robot.
This is called reinforcement learningโthe robot gets rewarded for doing good things (like staying on the track) and learns from its mistakes (like hitting walls). After training in the virtual world, it can race in the real world like a pro.
The future is here. ๐ฎ๐๏ธ
"Everything that moves will be autonomous someday, whether partially or fully. Breakthroughs in AI have made all kinds of robots possible."
โ Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO
Weapons-grade compute and cutting-edge sensors
Multiple RTX 4090 workstations for parallel AI training and simulation
High-performance GPUs for deep learning and computer vision
Enterprise AI supercomputing for massive-scale training
Laser-based 3D mapping and obstacle detection
Real-time depth perception and spatial awareness
Advanced vision systems for autonomous navigation
The event runs December 11-12 at Studio 2215 @ 2215 W De Soto St Pensacola, FL 32501 USA in Pensacola. Lunch is provided!
December 11
11:00 AM
INTRO LAB PARTICIPANTS
12:00 PM
LUNCH
1:00 PM
VISION LAB PARTICIPANTS
2:00 PM
Track Time (TT)
3:00 PM
MOTOR LAB PARTICIPANTS
4:00 PM
Track Time (TT)
5:00 PM
Track Time (TT)
December 12
7:00 AM
INTRO LAB PARTICIPANTS
8:00 AM
Track Time (TT)
9:00 AM
OMNIVERSE LAB PARTICIPANTS
10:00 AM
Track Time (TT)
11:00 AM
BREAK
12:00 PM
LUNCH & LEARN
1:00 PM
Track Time (TT)
2:00 PM
GOAT RACE PARTICIPANTS
3:00 PM
RACE PARTICIPANTS
4:00 PM
BREAK
5:00 PM
END
Drop in any time that works for you!
Rob is a robotics engineer who builds smart machines. He has a master's degree in robotics from University of West Florida and worked at Qualcomm for seven years making computer chips smarter. Now he leads the GOAT Racer project and teaches others how to build robots that can think.
Brannon created LabQCPro, a company that helps science labs go paperless. He builds software that makes quality control easier for medical labs. Brannon is one of the original GOAT Club founders and loves solving hard problems with simple tools.
Meagan is a professional camera operator and drone pilot with a master's degree in cinematography from Paris. She has filmed for Comedy Central, Vogue, and major movies while working in New York and Los Angeles. Now she runs Studio 2215 and captures all the action at GOAT events.
Renan is a DevOps and machine learning engineer who makes AI systems work faster. He has a master's degree in data science and builds pipelines that help computers learn from huge amounts of information. Renan connects software engineering with AI to create tools that actually scale.
Matthew is a robotics engineer who led his team to win an award from NASA at the Human Exploration Rover Challenge. He builds robots that can handle tough challenges and explores new ways machines can work in space. Matthew loves hands-on projects where robots do things people thought were impossible.
This is a free event, but space is limited.
Reserve your spot today at therealgoat.club
December 11-12, 2025
Drop in any time that works for you!
Studio 2215
2215 W De Soto St
Pensacola, FL 32501 USA