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
"Degrees of Freedom: On Robotics and Social Justice"
Dr. Tom Williams
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Colorado School of Mines
Rogers Hall 230
GRID: A Platform for General Robot Intelligence Development
Dr. Ashish Kapoor
CEO and Chief Scientist at Scaled Foundations
Rogers Hall 230
Teaching Robots To "Get It Right"
Dr. Joydeep Biswas
Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of Texas at Austin
Rogers Hall 230
Building Material Intelligence
Dr. Dylan Wood
Assistant Professor of Architecture at University of Oregon
Rogers Hall 230
Value Alignment and Safety via Interactive and Explainable Human-Robot Learning
Dr. Matthew Gombolay
Associate Professor of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology
Rogers Hall 230
Robots For People Who Know Nothing About Robots
Evan Ackerman
Senior Editor at IEEE Spectrum
Covell Hall 221
Power-efficient Autonomous Mobile Robots
Dr. Avik De
Chief Technical Officer at Ghost Robotics
Covell Hall 221
Unmanned Systems Research and a Framework of Autonomous and Automated Agents
Dr. David Kaber
College of Engineering Dean's Professor at Oregon State University
Covell Hall 221
Access, Belonging, and Success: DEI Guidance for Research
Dr. Carina M. Buzo Tipton
Assistant Director for DEI Education at Oregon State University
Covell Hall 221
Improving Drones to Interact with Everyone
Dr. Brittany Duncan
Associate Professor of Computing at University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Covell Hall 221
Empowering Independence & Enhancing Quality of Life with the Stretch Mobile
V Nguyen
Occupational Therapist (OT), Hello Robot
Covell Hall 221
A Special Seminar on the Intersection of Performing Art and Robotics
Huang Yi
Choreographer and Inventor
Rogers Hall 226
From Haptic Devices to Interactive Machines: Unlocking the Power of our Touch Sense
Melisa Martinez
Assistant Professor in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
Covell Hall 221
CHAMPS, a Conformable, Highly Articulated, Multi-Purpose Scalable Robot Arm
Mark Yim
Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania
Covell Hall 221
State of the Robotics Program
Cindy Grimm
Professor & Robotics Program Director at Oregon State University
Covell Hall 221
Getting Robots to Ask Good Questions
Tesca Fitzgerald
Assistant Professor at Yale University
Rogers Hall 226
Building Trustworthy, Fieldable Robotics
Paul Robinette
Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Rogers Hall 230