Silicon Valley AI Exploration Lab

Explore the future of AI & robotics, and build it.

Hands-on AI and robotics education, taught by Silicon Valley practitioners and top-university educators. We love teaching kids, and we welcome curious learners of every age, from middle school to college and beyond.

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Build-first

projects, not lectures

Small groups

expert instructors

Kids to adults

middle school to college & beyond

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Real robots

designed & built by students

What we do

SVAIX teaches students to build real robots and AI-powered systems, and helps organizations design the programs that get them there. Our instructors have taught at top universities and shipped technology at the industry's frontier. We believe the best way to understand the future is to build it.

Programs

Four ways to build with us

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Summer School

Immersive multi-week programs designing, building, and programming real AI & robotics projects.

Weekend School

Ongoing weekend sessions through the school year to keep building at a steady pace.

Winter Camps

Focused holiday intensives that pack a complete hands-on experience into a short program.

Consultancy

Curriculum design, program development, and strategy for schools and organizations.

Our approach

We teach by building.

Students work with AI as a creative partner, write real code, and assemble real hardware, finishing with projects they designed themselves. Small groups, expert instructors, and a focus on curiosity over memorization.

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Build real things

Every concept lands as a working robot, model, or system.

AI as a partner

Learners collaborate with AI, not lean on it as a shortcut.

Small groups

Real attention from instructors who've shipped real technology.

Curiosity first

We reward questions and exploration over memorization.

The team

Practitioners who love to teach

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Jun Wen

Co-founder & Lead Instructor

20+ years building wireless & IoT at Amazon, Cisco, and Motorola. Author of Accelerating IoT Development with ChatGPT.

Wei Ji

Co-founder & Robotics / AI Expert

PhD in Physics from Stanford. A machine learning engineer, data scientist, and software engineer whose career spans robotics and startups.

Yelaine Wang

Co-founder & Program Director

Background across Microsoft, Qualcomm & Teradata, and a founding team member of a Y Combinator-backed startup.

Who's teaching

A founding team from research labs, top universities, and the Silicon Valley tech industry.

Our three founders bring together a Stanford-trained physicist and robotics researcher, a 20-year IoT engineer and published author, and a program director with startup and big-tech experience who connects Silicon Valley with the next generation of learners.

They've taught at top universities and shipped real technology at the frontier, and they teach because they love watching students build.

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Let's explore it together.

Whether you're a parent, a student, or an organization, tell us what you'd love to build.

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