GRASP Lab· Dec 15, 2022
Fall 2022 GRASP SFI - Harold Soh, National University of Singapore
Harold Soh of the National University of Singapore discusses robot learning and human-robot interaction at the Fall 2022 GRASP SFI, hosted by GRASP Lab.
Talks and interviews
1063 talks, interviews and lectures on humanoid robots, each summarised with its key moments, so you can read the gist and jump to the part you need.
- Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence· Dec 13, 2022
Invited Talk: Motion control bits for homemade robots by Prof. Stéphane Caron
Prof. Stéphane Caron, a motion control and legged robotics researcher, discusses homemade robots and collaborative control software with the Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence group.
- Enchanted Tools· Dec 10, 2022
Enchanted Tools, Presentation of Miroki, our prototype Robot & Character (FULL VERSION)
Jérôme, presenting Enchanted Tools’ Miroki prototype, introduces the robot’s story and design, then explains its intended role in moving objects in hospitals and other workplaces.
- MIT Robotics· Nov 27, 2022
MIT Robotics - Kostas Bekris - Towards Closing the Perception-Planning and Sim2Real Gaps in Robotics
Kostas Bekris, an associate professor at Rutgers and Amazon Scholar, discusses closing perception-planning and simulation-to-reality gaps in robotics, drawing on work with collaborators at Yale, Amazon, and NASA Ames.
- GRASP Lab· Nov 11, 2022
Fall 2022 GRASP SFI Roberto Calandra, Meta AI
Roberto Calandra, a researcher at Meta AI, presents his work on tactile sensing at the GRASP Lab’s Fall 2022 SFI seminar in Philadelphia.
- CMU Robotics Institute· Nov 5, 2022
RI Seminar: Chelsea Finn : Robots Should Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
Chelsea Finn, a Stanford professor, discusses how robots can generalize through broader training data and adapt to unfamiliar settings at a CMU Robotics Institute seminar.
- AI Robotics Seminar - University of Toronto· Nov 4, 2022
Mohit Shridhar on Acting with Perception and Language | Toronto AIR Seminar
Mohit Shridhar, a University of Washington doctoral researcher working on vision and language, presents Perceiver-Actor at the University of Toronto’s AI Robotics Seminar.
- Engineered Arts· Oct 27, 2022
Ask Ameca Q&A | Humanoid Robot Answers Your Questions
Ameca, a humanoid robot from Engineered Arts, answers questions about her preferences, a prototype walking design, friendship, and a ketchup-or-mayonnaise dilemma.
- FII Institute· Oct 27, 2022
Upgrading Humanity with Dr. Harry Kloor of Beyond Imagination - Robotics - #FII6 - Day 2
Dr. Harry Kloor, founder of Beyond Imagination, presents Beomni at the Future Investment Initiative and describes its approach to training robots for work across health care, homes, and industry.
- GRASP Lab· Oct 21, 2022
Fall 2022 GRASP SFI - Srinath Sridhar, Brown University
Srinath Sridhar, professor at Brown University, discusses methods for generating and editing 3D shapes and aligning objects for robotic perception at a GRASP SFI seminar.
- Paul G. Allen School· Oct 17, 2022
Towards $1 Robots (Ankur Mehta, UCLA)
UCLA assistant professor Ankur Mehta discusses ways to make robot design and fabrication more accessible at a Paul G. Allen School talk introduced by Jeff Lipton.
- Paul G. Allen School· Oct 17, 2022
Constraints and Planning for Forceful Robotic Manipulation (Rachel Holladay, MIT)
Rachel Holladay, an MIT EECS PhD student, explains planning methods for forceful robotic manipulation in a talk hosted by the Paul G. Allen School, introduced remotely by Siddhartha Srinivasa.
- GRASP Lab· Oct 17, 2022
Fall 2022 GRASP SFI - Sonia Chernova, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sonia Chernova, a robotics researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology, presents work on semantically guided robot assistance and interaction for the GRASP Lab’s Fall 2022 SFI.
- PALRobotics· Sep 30, 2022
PAL Robotics | INNO4COV-19 Project Mr. Clean
A PAL Robotics representative presents the INNO4COV-19 Mr. Clean project and its TIAGo Disinfection robot for autonomous UVC cleaning of indoor spaces.
- NEXT with John Koetsier· Sep 29, 2022
Tesla Bot: MIT prof doubts general-purpose robot's usefulness
MIT professor and CSAIL director Daniela Rus talks with NEXT host John Koetsier about the limits of general-purpose robots, how specialized and modular machines could help people, and the technical and social challenges of automation.
- umrobotics· Sep 28, 2022
The Future of Machine Learning in Robotics: Meghan Dailey, Alumni Award Winner
Meghan Dailey, a machine learning specialist on the Scientific Computing and Research Consulting team at the University of Michigan’s Advanced Research Computing division, discusses machine learning in robotics and research collaborations at the University of Michigan.
- GRASP Lab· Sep 22, 2022
Fall 2022 GRASP SFI - Zhongyu Li, University of California Berkeley
Zhongyu Li, a PhD student at Tsinghua University working with UC Berkeley’s Koushil Sreenath, presents research on combining model-based safety methods with model-free reinforcement learning for legged robots.
- ROBOTISAMERICA· Sep 22, 2022
Reinforcement Learning featuring Vikash Kumar
Vikash Kumar, a robotics researcher who worked at Google Brain and is now at Facebook AI Research, discusses data-driven robotics and the ROBEL platforms with Gavin and Andrew of ROBOTISAMERICA.
- GRASP Lab· Sep 6, 2022
GRASP Lab Days 2022 - Faculty Research Talks presents Dr. Dinesh Jayaraman
Dr. Dinesh Jayaraman, a faculty member in computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania and GRASP Lab, discusses visual robot learning and ways to make robots more capable in uncertain settings.
- GRASP Lab· Sep 6, 2022
GRASP Lab Days 2022 - Faculty Research Talks presents Dr. Nadia Figueroa
Dr. Nadia Figueroa, a new GRASP faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania, presents her research on collaborative, human-aware robotics and the challenges of making robots learn, adapt, and work safely with people.
- NEXT with John Koetsier· Aug 5, 2022
Solving touch: the last mile of robotics
Jörgen Pedersen, CEO of Sarcos and founder of RE2 Robotics, talks with NEXT host John Koetsier about tactile sensing, remote manipulation, and robotics for hazardous and labor-intensive work.
- TEDx Talks· Jul 21, 2022
Robot Discussion between Marc Raibert & Daniela Rus | Daniela Rus & Marc Raibert | TEDxMIT
Marc Raibert, CEO of Boston Dynamics, talks with Daniela Rus at MIT about Spot, robot design and applications, research, and how robotics may affect people and work.
- Paul G. Allen School· Jul 11, 2022
Interactive Imitation Learning: Planning Alongside Humans (Sanjiban Choudhury, Cornell)
Sanjiban Choudhury, then a research scientist at Aurora and incoming Cornell assistant professor, presents at the Paul G. Allen School’s CSE Robotics Colloquium about learning from human feedback and planning with human partners.
- PALRobotics· Jun 22, 2022
PAL Robotics | ARI WebGUI
A PAL Robotics presenter explains how to use ARI’s WebGUI to configure motions, buttons, and a browser-based dashboard.
- Paul G. Allen School· Jun 17, 2022
Dynamic Robot Manipulation: Learned Optimization, Deformable Materials, and the Cloud
Jeffrey Ichnowski, a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley, presents work on faster robot manipulation and computation at the University of Washington Robotics Colloquium, hosted by Siddhartha Srinivasa.
- AI Robotics Seminar - University of Toronto· Jun 10, 2022
Eric Heiden on Reducing the Reality Gap in Robotics via Inference | Toronto AIR Seminar
Eric Heiden, a USC PhD candidate researching robotics and machine learning, explains simulation-based inference for reducing the reality gap at the Toronto AI Robotics Seminar hosted by the University of Toronto.
- Bloomberg Originals· Jun 9, 2022
The World's Smartest Robot Is Living in Vancouver
Suzanne Gildert, CTO of Sanctuary AI, discusses the company’s humanoid robot and its path toward general-purpose work with a Bloomberg Originals host in Vancouver.
- GRASP Lab· May 16, 2022
Spring 2022 GRASP SFI - Stefanie Tellex, Brown University
Stefanie Tellex, a Brown University robotics researcher, presents her work on language-guided robot collaboration at a GRASP Lab seminar.
- PALRobotics· May 6, 2022
PAL Robotics | Project SANDRo Trial
A PAL Robotics narrator describes how TIAGo supports daily care tasks at Centre Sociosanitari El Carme in Badalona as part of the SANDRo project with James K. Innovative Technology.
- MIT Robotics· Apr 26, 2022
MIT Robotics - Marco Hutter - Robots in the wild
Marco Hutter, professor at ETH and founder of ANYbotics, discusses legged robot control, autonomy, and field applications at an MIT Robotics talk.
- MIT Robotics· Apr 26, 2022
MIT Robotics - Pulkit Agrawal - Coming of Age of Robot Learning
Pulkit Agrawal, professor of EECS at MIT and founder of the Improbable AI Lab, discusses robot learning at an MIT Robotics seminar.
- Stanford Online· Apr 22, 2022
Stanford Seminar - Deploying Autonomous Service Mobile Robots, And Keeping Them Autonomous
A Stanford Online seminar presenter from the University of Texas at Austin discusses how to deploy service robots in changing human environments and help them remain reliable over time.
- GRASP Lab· Apr 18, 2022
SPRING 2022 GRASP on Robotics - Vincent Sitzmann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vincent Sitzmann, an MIT researcher, presents GRASP Lab’s spring 2022 robotics seminar on learning 3D scene representations from images and applying them to robot control and manipulation.
- GRASP Lab· Apr 18, 2022
Spring 2022 GRASP SFI - Jason Ma, University of Pennsylvania
Jason Ma, researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, presents research on safer and reward-free offline reinforcement learning at a GRASP Lab seminar.
- GRASP Lab· Apr 18, 2022
SPRING 2022 GRASP Seminar - Robert J. Wood, Harvard University
Robert J. Wood, a robotics researcher at Harvard University, discusses designing soft manipulators for delicate and dexterous tasks, including deep-sea sampling, in a GRASP Lab seminar.
- Waseda University 早稲田大学· Apr 11, 2022
The future of robotics at Waseda University
Tetsuya Ohkata, head of Waseda University’s ICT and Robotics Hub, describes the university’s robotics research, collaborations, and plans for human-centered AI robots.
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