Panel Discussion: Path to General Embodied AI

This is a Fusion Fund Distinguished Scholar Network (DSN) Lunch Series, June 2026 Edition. This will be an intimate, closed-door session bringing together a select group of physical AI researchers, founders, and industry leaders from across the ecosystem, followed by a networking session. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. There are a few spots left, so we'd love for you to sign up early. At this session, we will explore the competing model, data and hardware scaling paradigms for embodied AI, and what they mean for real-world deployment and industrial adoption. We are honored to have the following panelists joining the discussion: Changan Chen Co-founder and Chief Research Officer, Rhoda AI Changan Chen is Co-founder and Chief Research Officer at Rhoda AI, a robotics company training intelligent robots using internet-scale video data. The company recently raised a $450M Series A backed by Khosla Ventures, Mayfield, John Doerr, and others. Previously, Changan was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University hosted by Prof. Fei-Fei Li and Prof. Ehsan Adeli. He received his…