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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

From Code to Motion: Building an Autonomous Hat-Hunting Robot with Kubernetes & ML

Daniel Brintzinger

To solve the nightmare of disconnected edge deployments, engineers built an autonomous, hat-hunting robot. Discover how standard Kubernetes and GitOps push machine learning models from code to physical motion.

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#1 about 3 min

Challenges of application edge deployment and containers

How DevOps approaches and containers enable application delivery to disconnected edge devices.

#2 about 7 min

Hardware constraints and technology stack for the robot

The physical components and software tools used to build the autonomous robot.

#3 about 8 min

Training an object recognition model with OpenShift AI

Using Jupyter Lab and a machine learning pipeline to train an object detection model.

#4 about 4 min

Deploying and testing the AI inference service

How to expose a trained model as a secure REST API for application consumption.

#5 about 8 min

Building the robot control application using Eclipse Che

Creating a Python application within a cloud-based development environment to interact with the AI service.

#6 about 3 min

Live demonstration of the autonomous hat-hunting robot

Executing the control application to observe the robot scanning for and navigating toward the target.

#7 about 2 min

Continuous deployment to edge devices using Argo CD

Managing the physical robot as a registered Kubernetes cluster to automate configuration and code rollouts.

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Speaker background and open source Kubernetes edge computing projects

Gaurav Gahlot Gaurav Gahlot · World Congress 2026 Europe

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Deploying AI-driven foreign object detection in manufacturing environments

Dean Oren Dean Oren +1 · World Congress 2025

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Navigating hardware constraints and edge computing challenges

Thomas Tomow Thomas Tomow · World Congress 2025

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Deploying parallel models on custom hardware with Edge Impulse

Moe Sani Moe Sani · World Congress 2026 Europe

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Deploying algorithms and AI models to edge production

Irina Terekhova Irina Terekhova · World Congress 2026 Europe

1:50 min

Overview of the Edge AI ecosystem and tech stack

Maxim Salnikov Maxim Salnikov · World Congress 2025

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