Robotics Seminars
The Robotics Seminar series highlights innovative research and industry developments in robotics, featuring distinguished speakers from academia, government, and industry. Seminars are typically held on Fridays at 11 a.m. in 230 Rogers Hall, with occasional special sessions throughout the term.
Upcoming Seminars
Past Events
November 2025 to present
Seminars prior to November 2025
Normative AI
Houssam Abbas
Assistant Professor of EECS, College of Engineering, Oregon State University
AI Seminar: What is the road to humanoid laborers?
Alan Fern
Professor at College of Engineering at Oregon State University
Robotic and Sensor Applications in Forestry: Opportunities and Challenges
Heesung Woo
College of Forestry at Oregon State University
Make Every Step an Experiment: Towards Terrain-aware, High-mobility Robots for Planetary Explorations
Feifei Qian
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Southern California
Networked Lives and Digital Systems: Designing Identity in Virtual Spaces
American Artist
New York-Based Visual Artist
Learning in Robotics: Focus on “what” rather than “how”
Kagan Tumer
CoRIS Institute Director, Professor of Robotics, Oregon State University
Augmented Voices: AI and New Creative Intelligence
Harry Yeff
AI Voice Specialist and Artist
Planning for Sequential Multi-Object Robot Manipulation with Learned Relational Dynamics Models
Yixuan Huang
Incoming postdoctoral scholar at Princeton University, Ph.D. at the University of Utah.
Letting Sleeping Robots Lay
Fernando Orellana
Professor of Digital Art at Union College
Integrating robotics and human control systems
Ravi Balasubramanian
Associate Professor in MIME Oregon State CoRIS Institute
The Human-Robot Ratio (m:N) Theory: Limitations and Considerations
Julie A. Adams
Professor and Associate Director of Research at Oregon State CoRIS Institute
Overcoming current limitations of fruit-harvesting robots
Stavros G. Vougioukas
Professor of the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at University of California, Davis
Sierra Nevada Corporation Visit
Andy Smith
Director of Technology at Sierra Nevada Corporation
Project HORUS: A Case Study of Product Development
Ryan Quick
Product Design Engineering Consultant at Andrews Cooper
Challenges in Creating an Introductory Sequence in Robotics
Cindy Grimm
Robotics Graduate Program Director
Towards user acceptance and accessibility in today’s robots
Dr. Marlena R. Fraune
Founder and CEO of Plover
From Sparse to Dense, and Back to Sparse Again?
Dr. Fuxin Li
Associate Professor, School of EECS, Oregon State University
Access, Belonging, and Success in Research
Dr. Carina M. Buzo Tipton
Assistant Director, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Education, Oregon State University Office of Institutional Diversity
Variable Stiffness and Shape-Changing Robots
Dr. Brian Do
Assistant Professor, Oregon State University
Robots in the City
Dr. Wendy Ju
Associate Professor of Information Science, Cornell University