2025 Toronto Robotics Conference: Session Details
July 15: Mobility
July 15: Medical, Micro and Continuum Robotics
| Time | Location | Presenter | Title | Lab |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 p.m. | MN 1210 | Steven Waslander Director, TRAIL Lab | Reasoning Robots: Integrating LLM Reasoning into Autonomous Vehicles | TRAIL Lab WinTOR: All-Weather Autonomous Driving |
| 1:15 p.m. | MN 1210 | Letian Wang | Reasonet and LMDrive for Autonomous Driving | TRAIL Lab |
| 1:30 p.m. | MN 1210 | Aditya Bhattacharjee | Expert Agents for End To End Autonomous Driving | TRAIL Lab |
| 1:45 p.m. | MN 1210 | Mingfeng Yuan | OpenNav: Open World Navigation with Agentic Reasoning | TRAIL Lab |
| 2:00 p.m. | MN 1210 | Vincenzo Polizzi | Camera Relocalization | STARS Lab directed by Jonathan Kelly |
| 2:15 p.m. | MN 1210 | Miguel Rogel | Human-Robot Handovers | STARS Lab |
| 2:30 p.m. | MN 1210 | Phone Thiha | Greedy Heuristics for Search | STARS Lab |
| 2:45 p.m. | MN 1210 | Ziyi Wu | Controlling Generative Models for Content Creation and Simulation | Toronto Intelligent Systems Lab (TISL) directed by Igor Gilitschenski |
| 3:00 p.m. | MN 1210 | Mohammad Mohammadi | Temporally-Enhanced Self-Supervised Pretraining for Event Cameras | TISL |
| Time | Location | Presenter | Title | Lab |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 p.m. | MN 1270 | Amey Pore | Learning Surgical Manipulation Tasks | Medical Computer Vision and Robotics Lab (MEDCVR) |
| 1:15 p.m. | MN 1270 | Jones Law, Thomas Looi, Dale Podolsky | Robotically Assisted Bone Cutting for Craniosynostosis | Institute for Craniofacial & Cleft Innovation Directed by Dale Podolsky |
| 1:30 p.m. | MN 1270 | Haley Mayer, Thomas Looi, Eric Diller | Twisted String Actuator for Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection | Diller Microrobotics Lab |
| 1:45 p.m. | MN 1270 | Majid Roshanfar, Eric Diller | Flexible Magnetic Surgical Robots | Diller Microrobotics Lab directed by Eric Diller |
| 2:00 p.m. | MN 1270 | Nirmal Pol, Erik Fredin, Lueder Kahrs, Eric Diller | Controlling Magnetically Actuated Microrobots through Optical Coherence Tomography | MEDCVR Diller Microrobotics Lab |
| 2:15 p.m. | MN 1270 | Andrea Gotelli, Jessica Burgner-Kahrs | Research Overview of the Continuum Robotics Laboratory | Continuum Robotics Lab directed by Jessica Burgner-Kahrs |
| 2:30 p.m. | MN 1270 | Chloe Pogue, Ella Walsh, Jessica Burgner-Kahrs, Eric Diller | Continuum Robot Joining | Continuum Robotics Lab Diller Microrobotics Lab |
| 2:45 p.m. | MN 1270 | Puspita Triana Dewi, Chloe Pogue, Jessica Burgner-Kahrs | Parametric Design of a Tendon-Driven Continuum Robot for Industrial Applications | Continuum Robotics Lab |
July 16: Mobility
July 16: Manipulation, Aerial and Medical Robotics
| Time | Location | Presenter | Title | Lab |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:15 p.m. | MN 1210 | Tim Barfoot Director, Autonomous Space Robotics Lab (ASRL) | Lab Overview | ASRL |
| 2:30 p.m. | MN 1210 | Alec Krawciw, Sam Qiao | Field Robotics: RT&R | ASRL |
| 2:40 p.m. | MN 1210 | James Han | Indoor Navigation: MPC Social Navigation | ASRL |
| 2:50 p.m. | MN 1210 | Cedric Le Gentil | Self Driving | ASRL |
| 3:00 p.m. | MN 1210 | Daniel Guo | Conditioning and Marginalization with Constraint | ASRL |
| 3:45 p.m. | MN 1210 | Nick Rhinehart Director, Learning, Embodied, Autonomy and Forecasting (LEAF) Lab | LEAF Lab Overview | LEAF Lab |
| 4:00 p.m. | MN 1210 | Tianran Liu | LiDAR World Models | LEAF Lab |
| 4:15 p.m. | MN 1210 | Mohamed Nabail | Residual Reward Models | LEAF Lab |
| Time | Location | Presenter | Title | Lab |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:15 p.m. | MN 1270 | Pakpong Chirarattananon Director, Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory | Advancing Miniature Aerial Robotics: Bio-Inspired Design and Mechanical Intelligence | Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory |
| 2:30 p.m. | MN 1270 | Hugh Liu Director, Flight Systems and Control Lab | UAV Flight Control in The Era of Deep Learning | Flight Systems and Control Lab |
| 2:45 p.m. | MN 1270 | Jinjie Sun, Jessica Burgner-Kahrs, Lueder Kahrs | Towards Autonomous Liquid Suction with a Concentric Tube Robot | Continuum Robotics Lab Medical Computer Vision and Robotics Lab (MEDCVR) |
| 3:00 p.m. | MN 1270 | Aisha Raji, Milos Popovic, Cesar Marquez-Chin | A New Paradigm for Robotic Rehabilitation of Upper Extremity Impairment Post-Stroke | Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory (REL) Directed by Milos Popovic TACoS Lab Directed by Cesar Marquez-Chin |
| 3:45 p.m. | MN 1270 | Florian Shkurti Director, Robot Vision and Learning Lab (RVL) | Reasoning and Learning for Robotic Manipulation in Chemistry Labs | RVL |
| 4:00 p.m. | MN 1270 | Jan-Philip Gerigk, Igor Gilitschenski | Handle With Care: Calibrating Vision-Language Models for Safe and Efficient Object Manipulation | Toronto Intelligent Systems Lab (TISL) |
| 4:15 p.m. | MN 1270 | Mustafa Haiderbhai, Lueder Kahrs | Vision-based RL inside the MuJoCo Playground | MEDCVR |