I Taught a Robot to Listen: Live OpenClaw Demo Ft. Lawrence Okolo | Vancouver AI March 2026

Lawrence Akello has been building toward this moment. From student volunteer to featured speaker, he’s now running OpenClaw on actual hardware—and we got to watch it happen live at Vancouver AI.

• OpenClaw explained: orchestration platform that turns natural language into robot actions
• How agentic systems connect LLMs to ROS (Robot Operating System)
• Live demo walkthrough—what worked, what surprised us
• Why this matters for the future of human-robot interaction
• The Vancouver AI pipeline: how community members become builders

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