SRC Launch Symposium & Tours

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DETAILS

WHEN:
Saturday, November 2, 2024
8:15 am - 5:00 pm
Reception and movie to follow

WHERE:
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
Stanford University

 

AGENDA

8:15-9:00  Registration check-in 

9:00-9:30 Welcome 

Oussama Khatib, Faculty Director SRC 
Steve Cousins, Executive Director SRC  

9:30-10:15
Panel: University and Government Role in Robotics Innovation and Impact

Moderated by:
Oussama Khatib, Stanford University

Panel:
Daniela Rus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Giorgio Metta, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia 
Dawn Tilbury, University of Michigan 
Alin Albu-Schäffer, German Aerospace Center and TU Munich 

10:15-10:30
Coffee Break [Tour A leaves]

10:30-11:15
Panel: Foundation Models for Robotics
 

Moderated by:
Dorsa Sadigh, Stanford University

Panel:
Sergey Levine, Pi and University of California at Berkeley
Fei Xia, Google DeepMind 
Chelsea Finn, Pi and Stanford University
Shuran Song, Stanford University
Ben Burchfiel, Toyota Research Institute 

11:15-12:00
Panel: Surgical and Rehabilitation Robotics
 

Moderated by:
Allison Okamura, Stanford University 

Panel:
Bill Townsend, Barrett Medical
Rich Mahoney, Intuitive Surgical
Kathryn Zealand, Skip 
 

12:00-1:00 Lunch 
[Tour A returns, Tour B leaves]

1:00-2:00
Field Robotics
Talks

Chaired by Marco Pavone, Stanford University
(9-minute talks with 15 minutes group Q&A at the end) 

Marco Pavone, Stanford University 
Keenan Wyrobek, Zipline 
Grace Gao, Stanford University 
Martin Fischer, Stanford University 
Péter Fankhauser, ANYbotics 

2:00-2:45
Panel: Domestic Robotics
 

Moderated by:
Jeannette Bohg, Stanford University 

Panel:
Tamim Asfour, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 
Leo Guibas, Stanford University  
Monroe Kennedy, Stanford University
Karen Liu, Stanford University
Iro Armeni, Stanford University

2:45-3:15 Coffee Break 
[Tour B returns, Tour C leaves]

3:15-4:00
Panel: Robotics Education and Culture
 

Moderated by:
Catie Cuan, Stanford University

Panel:
Mark Cutkosky, Stanford University 
Mark Yim, University of Pennsylvania 
Yoshihiko Nakamura, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Lydia Kavraki, Rice University
Wolfram Burgard, Technical University of Nuremberg

 

4:00-4:45
Fireside Chat: Perspectives on Bringing Robots to New Markets
 

Moderated by:
Steve Cousins, Stanford University 

Panel:
Yoky Matsuoka, CEO of Panasonic Well, Founder and CEO of Yohana
Brad Porter, CEO and Founder of Collaborative Robotics

4:45-5:00  Concluding Remarks 

Oussama Khatib
Steve Cousins 

5:00-6:30 Closing Reception 
[Tour C returns]

6:30-7:30
Movie “Ocean One K, Archaeologist of the Abyss
  

Stanford Robotics Center Tour

The tours on Nov 2 (Sat) overlap with symposium sessions above. When you check in for the Symposium at the Alumni Center, you will have the opportunity to choose one tour and receive a ticket for your tour. Each tour has a limited capacity, first come, first served.

You can view all of our demonstrations on the tour here:

A ticket for the designated time slot is required for the tour.

  • Tour A: 10:30am - 12:15pm

  • Tour B: 1:00pm - 2:45pm

  • Tour C: 3:15pm - 5:00pm

  • Tour D: Nov 3 (Sun) 3pm tour (miss no sessions)

There will be a shuttle service between the Alumni Center and the Stanford Robotics Center. (5min by shuttle / 15min walk)

DIRECTIONS

EVENT LOCATION
Start the day’s events at:
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
326 Galvez St, Stanford, CA 94305

Get Directions→

 

PARKING
The Galvez Lot is the closest parking to the Alumni Center.

  • Available between 7am and 10pm on November 2.

  • Parking will be first come first served in the lot.

Get Directions→

 

HOTELS
A few recommended hotels in the area:

Stanford Guest House
[Stanford guest booking link]

Cardinal Hotel

Cowper Inn

EVENT OVERVIEW

You are cordially invited (and encouraged) to attend the Stanford Robotics Center Launch Symposium and Tours on November 2, 2024. We anticipate a wonderful day of talks, tours and demonstrations that will mark a milestone in Stanford Robotics history. We hope you will participate - it’s an event you won’t want to miss.

The Stanford Robotics Center brings together cross-disciplinary world-class researchers and industrial affiliates to explore new ways robotics can impact how we live and work, improve healthcare and quality of life, and give people power to do things they could never do before. Its unique collaborative facility supports large-scale innovative projects for transformative impact on people and the planet. 

The SRC Launch will bring together the whole Stanford Robotics community, along with roboticists from across Silicon Valley and beyond. This all-day symposium will feature tours of the SRC, live demonstrations of cutting-edge robotics, and presentations and discussions by Stanford faculty and keynote speakers.

Topics include:

• Robots in the home, at work, and in the field

• The role of universities in robotics for innovation and impact

• Human-robot interaction

• Medical and assistive robotics

• Telerobotics, avatars and digital twins

CONTACT: SRC Events Team
SRC-request@stanford.edu