Seeed in the US: What Will We Do?
For years, Seeed has been building with makers, developers, and technology communities globally. In 2026, we officially established our new US base in Santa Clara, California, opening a new chapter for Seeed in the Bay Area.
Why here? Because the Bay Area brings together something we deeply value: a dense ecosystem of hardware, AI, robotics, universities, startups, makerspaces, developers, and people willing to share what they know and build together. As AI rapidly moves from screens into robots, homes, factories, farms, classrooms, and everyday devices, we want to be closer to the people turning these technologies into something real.
But this isn’t simply another Seeed office.
We want Santa Clara to become an open local hub — a place to see new technologies, build with them, meet the people behind them, get local technical support, and turn ideas into real-world applications.
This new chapter didn’t start from zero. Over the past few years, we’ve been experimenting with different ways of bringing developers together around open hardware and emerging technologies — from our Embodied AI Hackathon in Mountain View and Open Sauce 2025 in San Mateo, to another Bay Area Embodied AI Hackathon focused on Home & Cooking Robots.
In 2026, more of these activities began moving into and around our new Santa Clara base. We opened the doors for a reBot-DevArm Early-Access Builders Session, brought local builders together through a Physical AI Hardware Meetup, and worked with partners such as Agora at Robotics Fair 2026 to explore conversational AI and voice interfaces for physical machines. Different formats and different technologies, but the idea behind them was the same: put hardware on the table, bring people together, and learn by building.
What's Next: More Things to Explore
Physical AI and robotics will continue to be an important part of what we do — but they’re only part of the story.
There’s a much wider world of technology we want to explore together.
Physical AI & Robotics — robot arms, teleoperation, perception, VLA models, simulation-to-real, NVIDIA Jetson, and the tools that help AI interact with the physical world.
Home Assistant & Smart Spaces — from local AI and voice interfaces to Matter, sensors, automation, and privacy-first smart home experiments.
Off-Grid Communication — Meshtastic, LoRa, MeshCore, Reticulum, and resilient communication systems that can work beyond traditional Wi-Fi and cellular infrastructure.
Edge AI & Computer Vision — cameras, sensors, local models, and intelligent devices that can understand what’s happening around them without sending everything to the cloud.
And there will be more.
Some topics may come from our engineers. Some may come from partners. And some may simply come from a builder walking through the door with an interesting idea.
We want the topics here to grow with the community.
More Ways to Learn and Build
Not everyone learns technology in the same way, so we don’t want everything to look like the same kind of event.
Meetups & Sharing Nights
Sometimes the best thing we can provide is simply a room full of interesting people.
We’ll host regular local meetups, builder nights, Show & Tells, and technical sharing sessions — places where you can bring a prototype, share what you’ve learned, ask a question, or meet someone working on a similar problem.
You don’t need a finished product. Sometimes a half-working prototype makes for the best conversation.
Hands-on Workshops
For people who want to go deeper, we’ll run hands-on workshops around robotics, AI, sensing, communication, and other emerging technologies.
The idea is simple: less watching, more building.
We want people to leave not only knowing what a technology is, but having actually used it.
Hackathons & Build Days
Some ideas need more than two hours.
We’ll continue working with technology partners, universities, makerspaces, and developer communities on hackathons and longer build sessions — bringing hardware, software, mentors, and builders together around real challenges.
More Than Events
Community is important, but Seeed US isn’t becoming an event space.
We’re building toward something closer to a local 4S hub for technology: a place where Showcase, Community & Learning, Sales & Fulfillment, and Support come together.
At our Santa Clara space, you’ll be able to see and experience Seeed hardware and solutions in person, discuss a project with our local engineers, get pre-sales and technical support, explore products before making a decision, and access products more easily through our US warehouse and local operations.
For a developer, that might mean coming in to test a board or robot.
For a startup, it might mean sitting down with an engineer to discuss hardware for a new product.
For a university, it might mean developing a workshop or curriculum together.
For a company, it could start with a demo and eventually become a real deployment.
We want to shorten the distance between “I’m interested in this” and “I actually built something with it.”
Build With Us
And we don’t want to build all of this by ourselves.
We’re actively looking to work with makerspaces, universities, research labs, startups, nonprofits, developer communities, technology companies, educators, and industry partners.
Maybe you’re a makerspace looking for a new workshop topic.
Maybe you’re a professor exploring Physical AI with your students.
Maybe you’re building an open-source project around Meshtastic.
Maybe your company wants to introduce AI or robotics into manufacturing.
Or maybe you’re an engineer who simply wants to share something interesting with the local community.
Bring the idea. Let’s see what we can build around it.
Beyond the Bay Area
Santa Clara is our starting point, not the boundary.
We’re also exploring collaborations with universities, makerspaces, developer communities, and local partners across the US. Different communities don’t need exactly the same thing — Boston might need a robotics workshop, Seattle might have an interesting open-source community, while another city might be better suited for an IoT or off-grid communication meetup.
Rather than trying to make every city look the same, we want to work with the people already there.
Local people. Local communities. Local problems. Connected by an open network of builders.
Build With Us
This is still the beginning.
More technologies. More meetups. More workshops. More hackathons. More technical support. More local partnerships. And hopefully, many more unexpected things we haven’t planned yet.
If you’re a maker, developer, researcher, educator, startup, university, makerspace, nonprofit, technology partner, or simply someone who likes building things, our doors are open.
Come to a meetup. Bring a prototype. Host a workshop with us. Talk to our engineers. Share something you know. Learn something you don’t.
Let’s build the next chapter of Seeed in the US together.
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