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Upcoming Seminars
Fall 2025 speaker schedule TBD.
Past Seminars
May 16, 2025 - Ke Liu, Peking University - Artificial Neuromuscular Systems.
April 18, 2025 - Peter Landgren, Amazon - 60 Minutes or Less: The Future of Amazon Prime Air Drone Delivery.
April 4, 2025 - Zeynep Temel, Carnegie Mellon University - Adaptive robotics systems using embodied intelligence.
March 21, 2025 - Kris Dorsey, Northeastern University - Where the rubber meets the code: Realizing soft robots through better sensor design.
March 7, 2025 - Hadas Kress-Gazit, Cornell University - Formal methods for robotics in the age of big data.
February 21, 2025 - Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Yale - Soft robots that evolve on demand.
December 6, 2024 - Andrea Bajcsy, Carnegie Mellon University.
October 25, 2024 - Nikolai Matni, University of Pennsylvania - What makes learning control easy or hard?
October 11, 2024 - Daniela Mitterberger, Princeton University - Rethinking digital construction: a collaborative future of humans, machines, and craft.
April 19, 2024 - Jeannette Bohg, Stanford - Enabling Cross-Embodiment Learning.
April 12th, 2024 - Aja Carter, CMU - PaleoPerformance: Connections between Paleobiology and Bioinspired Robots.
Apr 5, 2024 - Changliu Liu, CMU - Ensuring Robot Safety Through Safety Index Synthesis.
Mar 22, 2024 - Ye Zhao, GA Tech - Unlocking Agility, Safety, and Resilience for Legged Navigation: Addressing Real-world Challenges in Uncertain Environments.
Mar 8, 2024 - Marin Kobilarov, JHU - High-confidence Robot Motion Planning under Uncertainty.
Feb 23, 2024 - Caitlin Mueller, MIT - Towards Robotic Construction of Sustainable Structures.
Feb 9, 2024 - Elad Hazan, Princeton - The theory of online control and its application to robotics.
Dec 1, 2023 - Sonia Chernova, Georgia Tech - Autonomy in the Human World: Developing Rob that Handle the Diversity of Human Lives.
Nov 17, 2023 - Stephanie Gil, Harvard - Resilient Coordination in Networked Multi-Robot Teams.
Nov 10, 2023 - Baffour Osei, Princeton - A Reflection on How to Learn, Learning to Help, and Staying out of the Way.
Nov 3, 2023 - Russ Tedrake, MIT - Dexterous Manipulation with Diffusion Policies.
Nov 3, 2023 - Monroe Kennedy, Stanford - Collaborative Robotics: From Dexterity to Teammate Prediction.
Oct 20, 2023 - Henny Admoni, CMU - Robots that Learn From and Collaborate with People.
Oct 06, 2023 - Lerrel Pinto, NYU - Three Lessons for Building General-Purpose Robots.
Sep 22, 2023 - Pulkit Agrawal, MIT - Physical Intelligence as API.
June 9, 2023 - Vikas Sindhwani, Google Deepmind - Large Language Models with Eyes, Arms and Legs.
May 12, 2023, David Fridovich-Keil - Dynamic Game Models for Multi-Agent Interactions: The Role of Information in Designing Efficient Algorithms.
April 21, 2023, Renee Zhao - Multifunctional Origami Robots.
April 7, 2023, Scott Kuindersma - Task Agility: Making Useful Dynamic Behavior Easier to Create.
Mar 24, 2023 - Dorsa Sadigh - Learning Representations for Interactive Robotics.
Mar 10, 2023 - Greg Chirikjian - Robot Imagination: Affordance-Based Reasoning about Unknown Objects.
Feb 28, 2023 - Danica Kragic - Learning perception, action and interaction.
Feb 10, 2023 - Ken Goldberg - The New Wave in Robot Grasping.
Dec 2, 2022 - Nadia Figueroa - Collaborative Robots in the Wild: Challenges and Future Directions from a Human-Centric Perspective.
Nov 11, 2002 - Andy Zeng - Language as Robot Middleware.
Oct 28, 2022 - Tomas Lozano-Perez - Generalization in Planning and Learning for Robotic Manipulation.
Oct 14, 2022 - Sarah Tang - Data-Centric ML for Autonomous Driving.
Sep 30, 2022 - Radhika Nagpal - Towards Collective A.I.
Sep 16, 2022 - Katie Skinner - Learning from Limited Data for Robot Vision in the Wild.
April 22, 2022 - Mac Schwager - Reimagining Robot Autonomy with Neural Environment Representations.
April 8, 2022 - Stephen Tu - Learning from many trajectories.
March 25, 2022 - Karen Leung - Towards the Unification of Autonomous Vehicle Safety Concepts: A Reachability Perspective.
March 11, 2022 - Reza Moini - Bio-inspired Design and Additive Manufacturing of Architected Cement-based Materials.
Feb 25, 2022 - Aimy Wissa - Bio-Inspired Locomotion Strategies across Mediums: From Feather-Inspired Flow Control to Beetle-Inspired Jumping.
Feb 11, 2022 - Jordan Taylor - The steep part of the learning curve: how cognitive strategies shape motor skill acquisition.
Dec 3, 2021 - Naomi Leonard - Collective Intelligence and Multi-Robot System.
Nov 19, 2021 - Aaron Ames - Safety-Critical Control of Dynamic Robots.
Nov 5, 2021 - Chuchu Fan - Building Dependable Autonomous Systems through Learning Certified Decisions and Control.
Oct 8, 2021 - Karthik Narasimhan - Language-guided policy learning for better generalization and safety.
Sep 24, 2021 - Daniel Cohen - Living microrobots: controlling cellular swarms and the waterbear as a potential microrobot chassis.
Sep 17, 2021 - Michael Posa - Contact-Rich Robotics: Learning, Impact-Invariant Control, and Tactile Feedback.
Feb 11, 2021 - Jia Deng - Optimization Inspired Deep Architectures for Multiview 3D.
Feb 25, 2021 - Stefana Parascho - Rethinking Architectural Robotics.
Mar 11, 2021 - Naveen Verma - AI Meets Large-scale Sensing: preserving and exploiting structure of the real world to enhance machine perception.
April 8, 2021 - Jaime Fernandez Fisac - Safe Robots in the Wild: maintaining safety by planning through uncertainty and interaction.
April 22, 2021 - Olga Russakovsky, Zhiwei Deng - Evolving Graphical Planner: Contextual Global Planning for Vision-and-Language Navigation.
May 6, 2021 - Bartolomeo Stellato - Data-Driven Embedded Optimization for Control.