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

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Houssam Abbas.

Normative AI

Houssam Abbas

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Alan Fern.

AI Seminar: What is the road to humanoid laborers?

Alan Fern

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Portrait of Heesung Woo.

Robotic and Sensor Applications in Forestry: Opportunities and Challenges

Heesung Woo

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Portrait of Feifei Qian.

Make Every Step an Experiment: Towards Terrain-aware, High-mobility Robots for Planetary Explorations

Feifei Qian

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Portrait of American Artist.

Networked Lives and Digital Systems: Designing Identity in Virtual Spaces

American Artist

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Portrait of Kagen Tumer

Learning in Robotics: Focus on “what” rather than “how”

Kagan Tumer

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Portrait of Harry Yeff

Augmented Voices: AI and New Creative Intelligence

Harry Yeff

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Planning for Sequential Multi-Object Robot Manipulation with Learned Relational Dynamics Models

Yixuan Huang

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Letting Sleeping Robots Lay

Fernando Orellana

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Portrait of Ravi Balasubramanian.

Integrating robotics and human control systems

Ravi Balasubramanian

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Portrait of Julie Adams.

The Human-Robot Ratio (m:N) Theory: Limitations and Considerations

Julie A. Adams

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Portrait of Stavros G. Vougioukas.

Overcoming current limitations of fruit-harvesting robots

Stavros G. Vougioukas

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Sierra Nevada Corporation Visit

Andy Smith

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Project HORUS: A Case Study of Product Development

Ryan Quick

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Challenges in Creating an Introductory Sequence in Robotics

Cindy Grimm

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Portrait of Marlena R Fraune.

Towards user acceptance and accessibility in today’s robots

Dr. Marlena R. Fraune

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Fuxin Li

From Sparse to Dense, and Back to Sparse Again?

Dr. Fuxin Li

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Profile photo of Dr. Carina M. Buzo Tipton

Access, Belonging, and Success in Research

Dr. Carina M. Buzo Tipton

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Variable Stiffness and Shape-Changing Robots

Dr. Brian Do

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Robots in the City

Dr. Wendy Ju