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Prof. Koushil Sreenath (UC Berkeley)
Feb 6
Prof. Koushil Sreenath (UC Berkeley)

Safety, Representations, and Generative Learning for Dynamical Systems

The seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.

Prof. Madhur Behl (University of Virginia)
Jan 30
Prof. Madhur Behl (University of Virginia)

Bringing AI Up To Speed

The seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.

Autonomous Navigation in Complex Outdoor Environments: Towards Companion Robots for Longevity | From Digital Humans to Safe Humanoids: Grounded Reasoning and Compliant Interaction
Jan 23
Autonomous Navigation in Complex Outdoor Environments: Towards Companion Robots for Longevity | From Digital Humans to Safe Humanoids: Grounded Reasoning and Compliant Interaction

Student Speakers: Jing Liang & Yao Feng

The seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.

Prof. Sebastian Scherer (CMU)
Jan 16
Prof. Sebastian Scherer (CMU)

Resilient Autonomy for Extreme and Uncertain Environments

The seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.

Prof. Ahmed. H. Qureshi (Purdue)
Jan 9
Prof. Ahmed. H. Qureshi (Purdue)

Robot Motion Learning with Physics-Based PDE Priors

The seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.

Prof. Nadia Figueroa (UPenn)
Dec 5
Prof. Nadia Figueroa (UPenn)

“Motion Ready” Dynamic Conductors for the Future of Robotics

The seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.

Prof. Monroe Kennedy (Stanford)
Nov 21
Prof. Monroe Kennedy (Stanford)

“Motion Ready” Dynamic Conductors for the Future of Robotics

The seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.

Maeden Demo / Meet & Greet
Nov 18
Maeden Demo / Meet & Greet

“Motion Ready” Dynamic Conductors for the Future of Robotics

The seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.

Stanford Biodesign Presents Gary Guthart, PhD
Nov 17
Stanford Biodesign Presents Gary Guthart, PhD

A health technology leader’s relentless focus on solving healthcare’s big problems

The seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.

Steve Cousins: Reflections on Advancements in Robotics
Nov 12
Steve Cousins: Reflections on Advancements in Robotics

Steve Cousins @ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Speaker Series (ETL)

The seminar is open to everyone.

Yuke Zhu: Toward Generalist Humanoid Robots - Recent Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges
Nov 7
Yuke Zhu: Toward Generalist Humanoid Robots - Recent Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges

The seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.

Cynthia Sung: Leveraging Environmental Interactions for Robot Design and Control
Nov 6
Cynthia Sung: Leveraging Environmental Interactions for Robot Design and Control

Stanford Robotics Center Special Seminar
The seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.

Ashutosh Saxena on the Graph Physical AI Approach: Bridging Physics and Data for Scalable Robotics
Oct 31
Ashutosh Saxena on the Graph Physical AI Approach: Bridging Physics and Data for Scalable Robotics

The seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.

Student Speakers: Hojung Choi & Jonas Frey
Oct 24
Student Speakers: Hojung Choi & Jonas Frey

The seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.

Prof. Nick Gravish (UCSD): Adaptive Robots
Oct 17
Prof. Nick Gravish (UCSD): Adaptive Robots

Prof. Nick Gravish (UCSD): Adaptive robots through reconfiguration, compliance, and contact

The seminar is open to everyone.

H. Harry Asada (MIT): Human-Inspired Robotics
Oct 16
H. Harry Asada (MIT): Human-Inspired Robotics

Human-Inspired Robotics and Robotics-Informed Human Studies: From SuperLimbs to Koopman Operator Theory

The seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.

Robotics Seminar: Prof. Simone Schürle‑Finke (ETH)
Oct 10
Robotics Seminar: Prof. Simone Schürle‑Finke (ETH)

Design, Synthesis, Control, and Tracking of Soft Magnetic Microrobots for Targeted Therapeutic Delivery

The seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.

PhD Defense Announcement: Fadhil Ginting
Oct 9
PhD Defense Announcement: Fadhil Ginting

Reasoning and Planning using Contextual Semantics in Unstructured Environments

Robotics Seminar: Prof. Yang Gao (THU)
Oct 3
Robotics Seminar: Prof. Yang Gao (THU)

Manipulation Data Pyramid: From Human Video Pretraining to Physical RL

The seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.

Robotics Seminar: Feifei Qian (USC)
Sep 26
Robotics Seminar: Feifei Qian (USC)

Make Every Step an Experiment: Towards Terrain-aware, High-mobility Robots for Planetary Explorations

The seminar is open to Stanford faculty, students, and sponsors.

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

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.

Dane Brouwer PhD Defense: "Embodied, Reflexive, and Multimodal Intelligence for Manipulation in Unstructured Environments"
Jun 5
Dane Brouwer PhD Defense: "Embodied, Reflexive, and Multimodal Intelligence for Manipulation in Unstructured Environments"

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.

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.

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.

“Robot Learning Without Action Chunking” & “Generalization through Task Representations with Foundation Models”
May 23
“Robot Learning Without Action Chunking” & “Generalization through Task Representations with Foundation Models”

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.

AXIS Dance Company and Dr. Catie Cuan: Robotics Showcase
May 21
AXIS Dance Company and Dr. Catie Cuan: Robotics Showcase

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.

Robotics Entrepreneurship: Robotics from Sim to Scale: Challenges in Data & Go-to-Market
May 21
Robotics Entrepreneurship: Robotics from Sim to Scale: Challenges in Data & Go-to-Market

Panel discussion on how robotics ventures bridge the gap from simulation prototypes to scalable production and tackle the Go-to-market challenges.

What Brains Forgot, Bodies Remember: Building Intelligence from the Ground Up
May 16
What Brains Forgot, Bodies Remember: Building Intelligence from the Ground Up

 “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.

Learning to Control Large Teams of Robots
May 9
Learning to Control Large Teams of Robots

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.

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Rule Breakers: Movie Special Screening
Mar
3
Center Highlights

Rule Breakers: Movie Special Screening

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.

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The Stanford Robotics Center Launch Symposium!
Nov
2
to Nov 3
Center Highlights

The Stanford Robotics Center Launch Symposium!

On November 2, 2024, the Stanford Robotics Center (SRC) hosted its Launch Symposium and Tour event, marking a milestone in Stanford Robotics history. The event featured talks from Stanford faculty and keynote speakers, guided tours of the brand new facilities, and live demonstrations of groundbreaking robotics projects. This exciting day offered attendees the chance to explore the future of robotics. You can still check out the agenda, watch symposium videos, and explore the demo hub to learn more about this remarkable day.

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