Seminars

Tamim Asfour’s Keynote talk – Learning humanoid manipulation from humans

Daniel Carrillo-Zapata and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) 25 Jan 2022

Tamim Asfour gives an overview of the developments in manipulation for robotic systems his lab has done by learning manipulation task models from human observations, and the challenges and open questions associated with this.

Amanda Prorok’s talk – Learning to Communicate in Multi-Agent Systems (with video)

Robotics Today 17 Apr 2021

In this technical talk, Amanda Prorok, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Pembroke College, discusses her team's latest r...

Talking Robotics’ seminars of January – April 2021 (with videos and even a musical summary!)

Daniel Carrillo-Zapata and Talking Robotics 09 Apr 2021

Talking Robotics is a series of virtual seminars about Robotics and its interaction with other relevant fields, such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Design Research, Human-Robot Interact...

Chad Jenkins’ talk – That Ain’t Right: AI Mistakes and Black Lives (with video)

Robotics Today 16 Mar 2021

In this technical talk, Chad Jenkins from the University of Michigan posed the following question: "who will pay the cost for the likely mistakes and potential misuse of AI systems?" As he states, "we...

Adam Bry and Hayk Martiros’s talk – Skydio Autonomy: Research in Robust Visual Navigation and Real-Time 3D Reconstruction (with video)

Robotics Today 09 Mar 2021

In the last online technical talk, Adam Bry and Hayk Martiros from Skydio explained how their company tackles real-world issues when it comes to drone flying. Abstract Skydio is the leading US dr...

Carlotta Berry’s talk – Robotics Education to Robotics Research (with video)

Robotics Today 22 Dec 2020

A few days ago, Robotics Today hosted an online seminar with Professor Carlotta Berry from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. In her talk, Carlotta presented the multidisciplinary benefits of ro...

Nikolas Martelaro’s talk – Remote user research for human-robot interaction – with video

Talking Robotics 15 Dec 2020

On Friday the 11th of December, Nikolas Martelaro (Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute) gave an online seminar on ways robot design teams can do remote user...

Davide Scaramuzza’s seminar – Autonomous, agile micro drones: Perception, learning, and control (with video)

Robotics Today 24 Nov 2020

A few days ago, Robotics Today hosted an online seminar with Professor Davide Scaramuzza from the University of Zurich. The seminar was recorded, so you can watch it now in case you missed it....

Natalia Calvo’s talk – How children build a trust model of a social robot in the first encounter? – with video

Talking Robotics 24 Nov 2020

On Friday the 13th of November, Talking Robotics hosted an online talk with PhD student Natalia Calvo from Uppsala University in Sweden. Now you can watch the recorded seminar....

RSS 2020 – all the papers and videos!

Silicon Valley Robotics 18 Jul 2020

RSS 2020 was held virtually this year, from the RSS Pioneers Workshop on July 11 to the Paper Awards and Farewell on July 16. Many talks are now available online, including 103 accepted papers, each p...

Opportunities in DARPA SubT Challenge

Andra Keay 14 Jul 2020

Opportunities Still Available to Participate in the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge: Cave Circuit 2020 and Final Event 2021. Join us for an introduction of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge with Pr...

Open Problems for Robots in Surgery and Healthcare

Silicon Valley Robotics 15 May 2020

* Please register at:https://robotsinsurgeryandhealthcare.eventbrite.com The COVID-19 pandemic is increasing global demand for robots that can assist in surgery and healthcare. This sympos...

From SLAM to Spatial AI

Silicon Valley Robotics 12 May 2020

You can watch this seminar here at 1PM EST (10AM PST) on May 15th. Andrew Davison (Imperial College London) Abstract: To enable the next generation of smart robots and devices which can truly ...