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OpenLab @ The Vessel

Visit our open lab in AI & Robotics, build your own project or help us with our engineering initiatives.
Thursday, May 21

TechXperience: OpenClaw Workshop

Lunch workshop at The Beacon: a hands-on OpenClaw session by North Star covering AI agent architecture, memory, failure modes, and practical automation workflows.

Where we’ve been

May 2026

Benelux Robotics Meetup
Jan 2026

SIGNAL III
Dec 2025

ElevenLabs Worldwide Hackathon (Community Edition)
Nov 2025

Agentic Payments Hackathon with Stripe
Nov 2025

Tectonic
Oct 2025

Future In Bloom Pt. I
Oct 2025

Kids AI Vibecoding Hackathon
Aug 2025

AI Hackathon III
Aug 2025

SIGNAL II
Jun 2025

Robotics Hackathon I
Jun 2025

SIGNAL I
May 2025

AI Hackathon II
Mar 2025

AI Hackathon I
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Filip Nowak · March 11, 2026 · 4 min read

First open Robotics and AI Lab in Belgium

The Vessel is an open robotics and AI lab in the Antwerp port area. Think of it as a forever hackathon.

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Filip Nowak · December 31, 2025 · 7 min read

The Cost of Connection

Brain drain breaks the chain of people lifting other people up. How do we ignite Belgium's tech ecosystem?

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Hugging Face ElevenLabs Lovable European AI Office LeRobot Karel de Grote Hogeschool iMagineLab Nerdlab Dwengo Brubotics WeSTEM Tectonic Campus 19 E6K Creative STEM WAT Young Engineers La Grand Poste The Beacon AP Hogeschool AISO

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