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Past Seminars
JULY 9, 2024
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Robert Gregg
University of Michigan
Enhancing human mobility with agile robotic prostheses and orthoses
APRIL 5, 2024
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Fabio Ramos
University of Sydney
Probabilistic Robotics 2.0: Leveraging Differentiability and Parallelism for Diversity in Planning and Perception under Uncertainty
MARCH 22, 2024
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Hao Dong
Peking University
Towards Unified Robotics Manipulation via Object-centric Policy
MARCH 8, 2024
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Zachary Manchester
Carnegie Mellon
Composable Optimization for Simulation, Motion Planning, and Control
JAN 26, 2024
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Noémie Jaquier
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
From Data Structure, Physics and Human Knowledge: A Manifold of Robotic Geometries
DECEMBER 8, 2023
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Oren Salzman
Technion — Israel Institute of Technolgy
The multi-objective shortest-path problem: State-of-the-art algorithms with applications to robot motion planning
OCTOBER 13, 2023
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Stefana Parascho
EPFL
From Automation to Collaboration: Repositioning Robotics in Construction
OCTOBER 20, 2023
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
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Luca Carlone
MIT
Next-Generation Robot Perception: Hierarchical Representations, Certifiable Algorithms, and Self-Supervised Learning
JULY 10, 2023
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David Gracias
Johns Hopkins University
Smart 3D Microtechnologies for Biology and Human Health
June 13, 2023
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Frank Park
Seoul National University
Geometric Methods for Robot Learning: From Models to Representations
MAY 10, 2023
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Onur Ozcan
Bilkent University
Miniature Bio-Inspired Robots: Rigid to Compliant
APRIL 21, 2023
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Dmitry Berenson
University of Michigan
Where to Trust and How to Adapt Learned Models for Motion Planning
MARCH 10, 2023
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Mustafa Mukadam
Meta
Theseus: A Library for Differentiable Nonlinear Optimization
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
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FEBRUARY 10, 2023
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Arianna Menciassi
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Robotics and Bioengineering for Minimally Invasive Surgery and Targeted Therapy
JANUARY 13, 2023
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