Robot Navigation Using Ultra-Wideband Radio Join the live stream Ultra-wideband (UWB) radios technology is capable of generating distance measurements between a pair of transceivers with approximately 10 cm of standard deviation. UWB is inexpensive, lightweight, and can be simultaneously used as a data transfer medium, thus making it particularly attractive for small, mobile robots. UWB […]

Autonomous driving on snow and ice Join the live stream As the promise of autonomous cars keeps being delayed, more and more questions are raised about the accessibility of this technology in remote locations. Moreover, extreme meteorological events are on the rise with the concretization of climate change. This new reality stresses the importance of […]

Using Embodied Agents to Reverse-Engineer Natural Intelligence Join the seminar in MY580 or on Zoom Modern AI faces (at least!) two challenges: (1) building agents capable of autonomy and life-long learning, and (2) embodying them to perform these tasks in the real-world. In this talk, I will discuss our approach to these questions, and show […]

A multi-modal brain-computer interface for restoring lost communication Join in-person in MY580 or online (Zoom) Restoring the ability to communicate to people with neurological injuries has long been a goal of neurotechnology research; today, this dream is on the verge of fruition with ongoing commercial cursor and click brain-computer interface (BCI) clinical trials. I will […]

Sensing Change: Brain-Inspired Navigation Beyond GPS Join in MY580 or Zoom Abstract Knowing your location is fundamental to navigation - for humans, animals, and autonomous systems alike. But how can robots and other autonomous agents determine their position with confidence and precision in environments where satellite systems are unavailable or unreliable? The central theme of […]

Perception solutions for enabling automated driving in winter conditions Join in MY580 or online (Zoom) This talk presents methods and findings from research on perception solutions for automated driving in winter conditions, carried out at the Autonomy & Mobility Laboratory, Aalto University. Winter conditions pose several challenges for automated vehicle perception pipelines, which currently limit […]

Join in MY580 or online (Zoom) Learning what matters for model-based robotics Many important robot applications are difficult to capture precisely with manually designed objectives, and involve dynamics that are too complex for manually designed predictive models. In this talk, I will present recent research on reward learning and model-based methods for robotics. I will […]

Real-time 3D representations of surgical scenes for automating surgical robots Join in MY580 or online (Zoom) Efficient and effective surgery requires accurate models of the surgical scene. Surgeons must learn to create mental maps of complex 3D structures and register them to the operative field. To enable generalizable, robust automation in surgical robots, the robot also must learn to create […]

Physical AI from Cloud to Robot: An AMD Perspective Abstract Building intelligent robots requires more than deploying a model to hardware. Modern robotics workflows span cloud-based training, simulation, fine-tuning, and efficient on-device inference, all supported by increasingly capable development tools. This talk explores how these pieces fit together targeting the newly launched AMD Kria AI […]