In this talk, I will discuss 3 projects which enable robots to manage unstructured environments by using embodied, reflexive, and multimodal strategies.
The seminar is open to everyone.
“Soft robots locomote by reshaping compliant bodies. However, precision control of large, reversible 3-D deformations with minimal hardware remains difficult. We tackle this by treating morphing as a geometric problem: prescribing an in-plane “metric actuation” field—coordinated local area expansions and contractions—changes a surface’s intrinsic curvature, causing a flat surface to autonomously adopt a prescribed 3-D form.”
The seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.
Dexterous manipulation - especially when objects are small, cluttered, or partially occluded - remains a complex challenge in robotics. In this talk, I present three approaches to tackling this problem using DenseTact, a family of soft, vision‑based tactile sensors.
The seminar is open to everyone.
Student Speakers - Yuejiang Liu & Wenlong Huang, "Robot Learning Without Action Chunking” & “Generalization through Task Representations with Foundation Models”
The seminar is open to Stanford students, staff, and affiliates.
Manifold is a project by choreographer, dancer, and roboticist Dr. Catie Cuan. This work delves into human/robot interaction, bringing to life the concept of connection and empathy between humans and machines. Catie is an active member of and contributor to the SRC Team.
Panel discussion on how robotics ventures bridge the gap from simulation prototypes to scalable production and tackle the Go-to-market challenges.
“Intelligence does not emerge fully formed, but it forms from a developmental cycle.” In this talk, Prof. Boyuan Chen presents a developmental arc of embodied intelligence centered on three interdependent capacities: Sense, Adapt, and Connect.
The seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.
Prof. Eduardo Montijano ( Universidad de Zaragoza) speaks about the topic of controlling large teams of robots is a crucial challenge in robotics, due to the need for solutions that balance efficiency, scalability, and robustness.
Mark Mueller of UC Berkeley presents a seminar entitlted “Hardware / controls co-design to overcome challenges for aerial robots.” This seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.
Russ Tedrake of MIT gives a talk entitled “A Careful Examination of Multitask Transfer in TRI’s Large Behavior Models for Dexterous Manipulation”
Dhruv Shah, senior research scientist at Google DeepMind and incoming assistant professor at Princeton University, gives a talk on generalist robot policies.
Sam Burden, associate professor at UW gives a talk on human-machine interaction games.
Prof. Jonathan Hurst, co-founder of Agility Robotics, gives a talk “Humanoids: From The Warehouse To Your House” and a robotics demo of Digit. Registration required.
Prof. Andrea Bajcsy, Assistant Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, presents a seminar entitled “Towards Open World Robot Safety.”
Dr. Zhuwen LI is the Tech Lead Manager leading the detection, tracking and geometry teams at Nuro presents a seminar entitled “Scalable Unified Perception for Autonomous Vehicles: Enhancing Efficiency and Cross-Platform Adaptability”
Panel discussion featuring investors and industry leaders in the robotics ecosystem.
Lining Yao gives a seminar entitled “Embodied Intelligence with Morphing Materials and Mechanisms”
We are thrilled to welcome Marc Pollefeys for an engaging talk on Spatial AI to Assist Humans and Enable Robots
The Stanford Robotics Center and Graduate School of Business Women in Management cordially invite you to the screening of Rule Breakers, a dramatic feature film inspired by the true story of the Afghan all-girls robotics team who overcame tremendous obstacles to learn coding and robotics, and then traveled the world competing in international robotics competitions.
Franziska Meier presents examples of FAIR robotics research towards the goal of learning general representations for a wide spectrum of robotics applications.
Seminar with Anushri Dixit, an Assistant Professor in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with research interests in safety-critical planning & control, robotics, and stochastic optimization.
Join us for an insightful seminar by Dr. Michelle J. Johnson, Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. A leading expert in rehabilitation robotics, Dr. Johnson will present her talk, "Affordable Robots for Rehabilitation after Brain Injury Worldwide: Current Efforts and Barriers."
Join us for an engaging seminar by Professor Sebastian Trimpe on leveraging learning for control in robotics and physical machines, where he will explore deep reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and Bayesian optimization to enhance control strategies.
Join us for a seminar with Mark R. Cutkosky, Fletcher Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He will discuss ReachBot, a robotic system developed with NASA for mobility in challenging environments like Martian caves. ReachBot uses extendable booms for long-reach movement and secure grasping, requiring a motion planning approach similar to multi-fingered grasping. Mark will outline its design, recent field tests in the Mojave Desert, and potential future applications, including integration with mobile platforms like ANYmal.
Join us for an exciting seminar with Robert Katzschmann, Assistant Professor of Robotics at ETH Zurich and founder of the Soft Robotics Lab. Discover how living robots, integrating biological cells and synthetic materials, are transforming the landscape of robotics with capabilities like growth, regeneration, and environmental adaptation. Robert will delve into recent breakthroughs in electrohydraulic musculoskeletal robotics, vision-controlled inkjet printing, and xolographic biofabrication.
Join us for an engaging exploration of the robotics industry and what lies ahead in 2025. This webinar will dive into the latest market trends, cutting-edge technologies, and emerging applications that are shaping the future of robotics. We’ll also examine the state of various industries, offer predictions for the future, and uncover potential disruptions on the horizon.
Whether you're a developer, business leader, or robotics enthusiast, this session will provide valuable insights to help you stay ahead in this dynamic field.
Join speaker Daniele Gammelli as they explore how advancements in foundation models are shaping the future of space autonomy. The talk will cover adapting foundation model techniques, like Transformers, for reliable decision-making in spacecraft trajectory optimization. Additionally, Daniele will highlight opportunities for pre-trained models in machine learning-based autonomy stacks, from data curation to modular reasoning, paving the way for a versatile Space Foundation Model.
Join speaker Yifan Hou as they explore compliance in robotic manipulation—how the elastic relationship between force and motion enhances robustness. Yifan will present two methods: one using analytical modeling to compute optimal control and motion plans, and another introducing Adaptive Compliance Policy (ACP), a framework that learns dynamic compliance adjustments from human demonstrations.
Mark Mueller of UC Berkeley presents a seminar entitlted “Hardware / controls co-design to overcome challenges for aerial robots.” This seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.
Come meet Jérôme Monceaux, the visionary behind Nao and Pepper, two of the most iconic humanoid robots in the world. Today, he’s building the next generation of social robots at Enchanted Tools, with a radically different approach to design, mobility and user interaction. Live on-stage demo included.
RSVP required by Monday, June 23. The presentation is open to everyone.