Special Events

The Robotics Institute Student Org is excited to invite you all to join a catered fireside chat with David Silver, PhD, next Monday April 6th at 3:30pm in NSH 3305! Dave completed his PhD in the RI with Tony Stentz in 2010 on "Learning Preference Models for Autonomous Mobile Robots in Complex Domains". Dave's 20+ year [...]

Boris Sofman (Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, PhD, 2010) has experienced many stages of the company-building journey in robotics: founding startups from scratch, scaling products to mass market, and operating within one of the world's most ambitious and expensive technology programs. At Anki, he took an idea from prototype to millions of consumer robots in homes [...]

Rashid Auditorium, Gates Hillman 4401 In Person Open to the public The last decade has seen extraordinary advances in AI. The potential arrival of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has profound implications for future of our society. We anticipate a world where AI assistants and humanoid-robots will perform most of the  tasks requiring human expertise and [...]

Location: Perlis Atriium - Newell-Simon Hall 3rd Floor Sponsored  by the Teruko Yata Memorial Fund Open to the public. Demonstrations will include: Biorobotics Lab - Howie Choset - Snake Robots Demo Automated Precision Experimentation Laboratories (APEX Labs) Demo by MRSD Team H - Arnav Kharbanda, Juan Muerto, Karthik, Srinivasan, Arnaz Alam Ahmed, John Dolan - We [...]