This is an interest group about robots. This includes toys, gadgets, robotics and tools. We also assemble and share stories, projects, accessories and other activities to help promote our fascination. You should join if you are just interested in robots even if you don't actually own one yet. But if you own a robot from a Sony Aibo to a Roomba--come and enjoy the camaraderie of others.

This is a group for anyone interested in research concerning artificial neural networks, deep learning, and so on. The format varies between discussion groups, guest speakers, and tutorials. Proposed topics include: training deep belief networks with unsupervised pre-training/supervised finetuning, recurrent neural networks, different optimization methods, scalable architectures for large networks across clusters, practical GPU programming (with Python!), NNs for NLP, using NNs in robotics, visu …

If parents want to counter the onslaught of TV programs and video- and computer games aimed at their kids they better bring on a good show! Legos and block building offer amazing educational opportunities for toddlers, kids, and adolescents. The Legosmeister NYC Meetup connects educators, parents, and kids interested in using Legos for imaginative play, educational purposes, and pure fun through workshops, playdates, and parties: Lego Duplos + Block Building: 2 yrs - 6 yrs;  Legos Regular: 5 yrs …

NYC Driverless Auto is a group dedicated to driverless cars. We believe in a world with safer, greener, faster and more efficient automobiles. We're a casual group that will get together for coffee, drinks and the latest tech!

fat cat fab lab is a new undertaking of the fat cat club, music, and gaming venue on 75 Christopher street. We are expanding to include a small Maker facility that will provide access to digital fabrication equipment and related hacker, maker, crafter, and hardware enthusiast tools and workshops.

Join the local New York City forum for the Volumetric Society ( http://volumetric.org ) an eclectic group of innovators exploring the arts & sciences of a new world of natural user interfaces between body, brain, and spatially aware computing for the physical world.  Come exchange ideas, demo your projects, or just get exposed to the volumetric future that devices such as Kinect, Emotiv/MindWare, volumetric 3D displays and cameras and telematic interfaces are taking us. Everyone is welcome - fro …

Everybody grabs some food (you have to pay for your own, sorry), grabs a seat, and talks tech. There's no particular focus other than meeting some new people and having some interesting conversations. Come join us!

Are you interested/excited/worried about the 'Singularity' as authors like Ray Kurzweil coined the time of ever increasing speed of technological innovation? Join this group if you would like to find others interested in this subject to exchange thoughts, ideas, book tips, laughter and generally good company.

A gathering of all those interested in the discussion and study of signs, meaning systems, web science, thinking, language, and knowledge in digital and web spaces. Open to all disciplines: All interested individuals are welcome, including academics, philosophers, advertising professionals, communications professionals, independent researchers, computer scientists, digital anthropologists, linguists, designers, information architects, user experience, human interaction, developers, localization, …

[This is a draft description; Don't join yet!] Some people feel a calling towards meditation, prayer, magic, shamanism, and so forth. But lots of these people navigate scientifically, too, reading popular science books or books by the "new atheists" and so forth. And, what about evolutionary psychology? Is a yearning for profundity and transcendence (and intimacy and warmth) -- are these urges the nihilistic result of natural selection? Well, kind of, maybe, in some sense. But, so what? I value …

High Tech meetup is for Entrepreneurs and inventors who are working on cutting edge technology. This is not a meetup for just web or another exercise app. It is geared at high tech startups involved in non standard and potentially revolutionary ideas and products. Granted, everyone thinks what they make falls into that category.As an example this meetup is for people involved in material modeling, robotics, machine learning, mobile apps that are deeper than a server+table/map UI. You got the pic …

Events will focus on Ruby on Rails engineering best practices and principles along with emerging Rails technologies. We will focus events on mixing Rails with new and emerging technologies as much as possible.  Examples of this will range from using Rails with Big Data and high frequency trading to using rails to develop apps for robots, and new medical devices. We will only allow the best RoR speakers to present, ensuring the quality of the content. Content will range from beginner to advanced …

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We want to foster an environment where individuals can come together to share knowledge and build on the ideas of others. Our motivation to start this group is to incorporate "Design Thinking" into our meetups. The big thing about design thinking is it allows people to build on the ideas of others. Instead of just having that one thread, you think about it, I come up with an idea, and then somebody from somewhere else says, "Oh that makes me think we should do this and then we could do that." A …

Colossus in 2012! Discuss, Learn, Implement, our Silicon Overlords!

The official meetup of Alpha One Labs connecting us to Meetup.

We are opening Alpha One Labs, a makerspace in Brooklyn, to children and their parents to come and build, create, and do something together.

The purpose of this group is to provide a forum for those gay guys (aged 30 or older) who are hardcore and even mild fans of geeky interests.  As somewhat of a fan of many things geeky, I want this group to provide me (and those like me) with opportunities to learn more about any and all things related to"Geek Culture" (including but not limited to comics(Marvel, DC, Independents, graphic novels, sci-fi/fantasy books and movies, animation, puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, scale model (cars, trains, and …

NYC has countless tech meet-ups and events, but where's all the hardware love? We want to bring together a strong community of folks eager to build businesses with physical products, be it a cold fusion engine or a bionic fork. Whether you're an engineer, designer, CEO, investor, or anyone interested in being a part of the hardware start-up eco-system, come join us and let's create an amazing addition to the tech scene in the Big Apple.

These are not your typical software engineering events. Our events cover topics related to software engineering along with business but aim to change the perspective of those who attend.  Our focus is on emerging technologies such as Big Data, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, 3D printing, Machine Learning, MapReduce, Semantic Web technologies, alongside more traditional topics like Ruby on Rails, HTML5, PHP, node.js, and Python. We reach out to the entire New York metropolitan …

Tech Tuesday is the weekly open night at Hack Manhattan, a community hackerspace in the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan. Stop by to chat about your projects and use our electronics tools, 3D printers, sewing machines or machine shop. Hack Manhattan is located on 137 West 14th Street between Union Square and Chelsea. We are dedicated to technology, art and craft. Our physical space is open every Tuesday evening. A smaller 3D printing foucsed group gathers on Thursday evenings, and it’s pos …

Hudson County's one-and-only Hackerspace, the place to collaborate on high-tech projects, learn awesome skills, and meet fellow tinkerers. Check us out at 38 Jackson St. in Hoboken or online at MakerBar.com. Tweets: @MakerBar IRC: #makerbar on irc.freenode.net mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/MakerBar RSVP's are requested but not required for most of our events. For anything with an attendance limit, we must ask for some form of RSVP. Please email bert@makerbar.com if you'd prefer to …

Open to all creatives looking to learn and collaborate on design and technology. Are you a Maker or tinkerer? Are you digital Designer? Are you looking to learn and share skills? Are you into 3D printing and Robotics? Are you into sketching and Automata?

Join together with other BuzzFeed enthusiasts to hone your buzz skills and increase your power. Maybe you'll join together to create a giant robot that will rule the Earth! Or talk about how to make awesome web content. Help out by organizing a time and place to meet in your hood. Email us at buzzmeets@buzzfeed.com with questions and to ask for a starter kit.

Are you a woman* who loves programming and has been searching for a similar bunch of ladies to eat cupcakes and discuss code with? Are you happier discussing Ruby** than rubies over coffee? If so, you’ve come to the right place! We meet at least once a month to hack on projects, give casual 5-minute lightning talks, ask all of our technical questions, and toss around ideas together. It's a great way to make new friends, and to bounce ideas off each other to keep improving our coding skills. Thin …

"A silky euphoria, sublime textures of neon light woven through a madd rush of kaleidoscopic sparks and manic speed, draped over a relentless, thumping consonance, connecting us as 1 joyful, beating, organism" -- trance, def. NEW YORK, ARE YOU READY TO TRANCE INTO 2011? We're gonna be bustin' out into 2011 with parties and events that'll move and exhilarate you with the most uplifting and danceable progressive trance in nyc. What could be better than the sublime music, the positive and absol …

Mystery Science Theater 3000 is gone, but the riffing lives on! Get together with your fellow MSTies to watch horrible, horrible movies getting the mockery they so richly deserve. For the unitiated: "Rifftrax" is a series of downloadable film commentaries from MST3K head writer/host Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy (voice of Tom Servo), and Bill Corbett (2nd voice of Crow T. Robot). It's basically MST3K minus the skits. This Meetup gets together to watch new Rifftrax movies as well as old MST3K reruns …

Inspired by the Medved books of the 80s. People get together at my house in Sunnyside every other month, the 4th Sunday of odd months, and we watch and heckle, hillariously bad movies. It's like being in MST3K. People bring munchies or their own lunch. Some bring guest bad movies. No porn or slashers, just over- or underacting, cheap sets, weird writing, and all-out lousy filmmaking. Examples include Project Moonbase, Robot Monster, Massacre Mafia Style, and "Titanic, the Animated Musical!" Th …