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Motion is all around us. Motion is particularly interesting when it has many degrees of freedom. This talk covers the design, sensing, and planning for snake, multi-agent and modular robot high DOF…
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Howie Choset Date
February 22nd, 2023
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Autonomous robots have the incredible potential to aid people by taking on difficult tasks and working alongside us. However, it will be difficult to trust robots in widespread deployment without…
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Shreyas Kousik Date
February 8th, 2023
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Compared to vision, the complementary sense of touch has yet to be broadly integrated into robotic systems that physically interact with the world. An artificial sense of touch is especially useful…
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Veronica Santos Date
January 11th, 2023
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Alfred Rizzi Date
November 30th, 2022
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This talk presents a framework based on robust control theory to aid in the certification process of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) flight controllers. Uncertainties are characterized and quantified…
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Mazen Farhood Date
November 16th, 2022
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Contact interactions are pervasive in key real-world robotic tasks like manipulation and walking. However, the non-smooth dynamics associated with impacts and friction remain challenging to model,…
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Zachary Manchester Date
November 2nd, 2022
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Who would want to make a mobile robot that has only a single spherical wheel? Well, I did! My talk will trace the development of the first successful “ballbot,” beginning in 2004. Now,…
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Ralph Hollis Date
October 19th, 2022
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In this talk I will describe how formal methods such as synthesis – automatically creating a system from a formal specification – can be leveraged to design robots, guarantee their…
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Hadas Kress-Gazit Date
March 9th, 2022
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Cédric Pradalier Date
March 30th, 2022
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The ability of a system to correctly respond to a sudden adverse event is critical for high-level autonomy in complex, changing, or remote environments. By assuming continuing structural knowledge…
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Melkior Ornik Date
February 23rd, 2022
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Musculoskeletal biomechanics research has provided numerous important insights into human movement that inform the design of assistive devices. These devices have the potential to retore or…
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Jason Wheeler Date
February 9th, 2022
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Robot manipulators are increasingly deployed outside of carefully controlled factory settings. Advances in robot motion planning have made it possible to compute feasible motions for more complex…
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Mark Moll Date
January 26th, 2022
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Human-generated, preventable errors, particularly those made intra-operatively, can lead to morbidity and mortality for thepatient poor training outcomes for residents, and high costs for the…
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Ann Majewicz Fey Date
November 17th, 2021
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This talk tells the Berkshire Grey story, from its founding in 2013 to its IPO earlier this year — the first robotics IPO since iRobot over 15 years ago. Berkshire Grey produces automated…
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Matthew T. Mason Date
September 22nd, 2021
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Intelligent animals are able to safely interact with their environments, whether those environments are hard or soft, and over a wide range of geometry. Modern robots made from serially arranged…
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Yue Chen Date
November 3rd, 2021
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Recent advances in both software and hardware opened a new horizon of robotics: artificial intelligence discovered dynamic motions in simulation and hardware became powerful enough to execute…
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Sehoon Ha Date
October 20th, 2021
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