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20 Years Building Character Robots: Risk, Grit, and Real-World Impact
Jun
25

20 Years Building Character Robots: Risk, Grit, and Real-World Impact

  • Stanford Robotics Center, David Packard Electrical Engineering Bldg., basement (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.

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Cartography to shape morphing at many length scales
May
30

Cartography to shape morphing at many length scales

“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.

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Won Kyung Do PhD Defense: "Improving Robotic Dexterity with Optical Tactile Sensor DenseTact"
May
29

Won Kyung Do PhD Defense: "Improving Robotic Dexterity with Optical Tactile Sensor DenseTact"

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.

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