Seminars

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

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.

25 January 2022, by Daniel Carrillo-Zapata and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)

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

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...

17 April 2021, by Robotics Today

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

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...

09 April 2021, by Daniel Carrillo-Zapata and Talking Robotics

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

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...

16 March 2021, by Robotics Today

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

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...

09 March 2021, by Robotics Today

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

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...

22 December 2020, by Robotics Today

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

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...

15 December 2020, by Talking Robotics

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

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....

24 November 2020, by Robotics Today

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

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....

24 November 2020, by Talking Robotics

RSS 2020 – all the papers and videos!

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...

18 July 2020, by Silicon Valley Robotics

Opportunities in DARPA SubT Challenge

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...

14 July 2020, by Andra Keay

Open Problems for Robots in Surgery and Healthcare

* 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...

15 May 2020, by Silicon Valley Robotics

From SLAM to Spatial AI

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 ...

12 May 2020, by Silicon Valley Robotics