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SUMMARY:Robotics Major and Additional Major Capstone Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Undergraduates in the Robotics Major and Robotics Additional Major will be demonstrating their capstone projects. Our majors have designed and built robots for their chosen tasks. We have a frisbee throwing robot\, water sampling boat\, brachiating mechanism\, haptic-feedback arm and hand\, an autonomous backpack\, and a drover (drone + rover pair). \nDemonstrations will be in the NEW Robotics Education Lab on the first floor in NSH 1201. Come see robotics\, congratulate our students\, and check out the new undergraduate lab space!
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/robotics-major-and-additional-major-capstone-presentations/
LOCATION:NSH 1201
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SUMMARY:2026 National Robotics Week Robotics Institute Open House Robot Demonstrations 
DESCRIPTION:Location: Perlis Atriium – Newell-Simon Hall 3rd Floor \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsored  by the Teruko Yata Memorial Fund \nOpen to the public. \nDemonstrations will include: \n\nBiorobotics Lab – Howie Choset – Snake Robots Demo\nAutomated Precision Experimentation Laboratories (APEX Labs) Demo by MRSD Team H – Arnav Kharbanda\, Juan Muerto\, Karthik\, Srinivasan\, Arnaz Alam Ahmed\, John Dolan – We will present a mobile manipulator designed to automate laboratory work\, demonstrating autonomous operation for laboratory tasks of handling and moving chemicals.\nHARP Lab: Henny Admoni –  Assistive robots hold a lot of promise in helping people with everyday physical tasks like cleaning up a table. But how do these robots learn what they need to know to do those tasks? In this demo\, you will see a robot arm that can learn to do different tasks using guidance from human teachers.\nAutonomous navigation and scene understanding: two robots\,  Ji Zhang – 1x wheeled robot and 1x legged robot will autonomously navigate in the atrium.\nAI Motion Capture – Kris Kitani – Single web camera that estimates human body pose in 3D.\nDinosuar and Penguin Robots – Steven Man – The Robomechanics Lab will show some of our recent robot designs\, including some quadrupeds with dinosaur-inspired spines and a biped penguin robot\, along with other demos.\n\nAutoKNEE: An Autonomous Total Knee Arthroplasty System with Mixed-Reality Teleoperation and Real-Time Digital Twin Guidance\nTeam Members: Aayush Agrawal\, Shreenabh Agrawal\, Shubh Jain\, Gabriel Zaragoza\, John Dolan\, Dimi Apostolopoulos\n– We will be presenting our work on bone tracking\, augmented reality-based real-time tracking\, and autonomous drilling.\nhttps://mrsdprojects.ri.cmu.edu/2026teamb/\n\n\nMore info on the 2026 Open House Page \n 
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/2026-national-robotics-week-robotics-institute-open-house/
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:National Robotics Week Robotics Institute Open House: Keynote Presentation - Raj Reddy - The Future of AI and Robotics
DESCRIPTION:Rashid Auditorium\, Gates Hillman 4401\nIn Person\nOpen to the public\n\nThe 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 skill at 10% of current costs. In this paradigm\, essential services—including food\, housing\, energy\, education\, healthcare\, and transportation—will be provided via Universal Basic Services\, signaling a historic shift  from a society of scarcity to one of abundance. \nThis transformation raises a critical concern: widespread displacement of traditional labor. What is the human role when AI can do everything? This talk presents an  alternative scenario: a “Human-in-the-Loop” evolution. In this model\, humans  transition into high-level supervisory roles\, collaborating with AGI to train robots in novel skills and adapt them to unforeseen tasks. \nWe explore this as the “Maharaja Model” where technology serves humanity so comprehensively that work will be optional for humans. Finally\, we will discuss how  institutions like the Robotics Institute must lead this transition\, developing the hybrid technologies and ethical frameworks necessary to bridge the gap between our current economy and a robot-assisted future. \n— \nRaj Reddy is a University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics and Moza Bint Nasser Chair at Carnegie Mellon University. He was an Assistant Professor at Stanford from 1966-69 and Faculty Member at Carnegie Mellon since 1969. He served as the founding Director of the Robotics Institute from 1979 to 1991 and the Dean of School of Computer Science from 1991 to 1999. \nHe has been active in AI research for over five decades in the areas of AI\, Speech Understanding\, Image Understanding\, Robotics\, Multi-sensor Fusion\, and Intelligent Agents. Dr. Reddy’s current research interests include: Technology in Service of Society\, Voice Computing for the 3B semi-literate populations at the bottom of the pyramid\, Digital Democracy\, and Learning Science and Technologies. \nHe is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as co-chair of President Clinton’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1999 to 2001. Dr. Reddy is the recipient of the Legion of Honor in 1984\, the ACM Turing Award in 1994\, the Padma Bhushan in 2001\, the Honda Prize in 2005 and Vannevar Bush Award in 2006. \nKeywords: \nAlumni\, Community Engagement\, Computer Science Department (CSD)\, Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII)\, Language Technologies Institute (LTI)\, Machine Learning Department (MLD)\, Partnerships\, Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department (CBD)\, Robotics Institute (RI)\, School of Computer Science
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/robotics-open-house-keynote-presentation-raj-reddy-university-professor-of-computer-science-and-robotics-moza-bint-nasser-chair-carnegie-mellon-university-the-future-of-ai-and/
LOCATION:Gates-Hillman Center 4401
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SUMMARY:The Teruko Yata Memorial Lecture in Robotics - Boris Sofman -  Journeys from Research to Commercialization: Lessons from Anki\, Waymo\, and Bedrock Robotics
DESCRIPTION: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 around the world. At Waymo\, he was part of the leadership team during the inflection point from a decade of R&D into one of the most dramatic commercial adoptions in tech history. Now\, at Bedrock Robotics\, he’s bringing autonomous systems to 50-ton construction machines to help America build infrastructure at an unprecedented speed and scale. \nIn this lecture\, Boris will share an honest account of that journey and its lessons\, including the energizing wins\, the wrong turns and painful surprises\, and the moments where an earlier experience turned out to matter more than expected. Closing with a deeper look at Bedrock\, he will share why he believes autonomous construction is one of the most important problems robotics can tackle right now\, driven by a unique convergence of maturing technology and critical industry need. For students at the beginning of their own paths\, this is a talk about how a career in robotics and entrepreneurship might actually unfold\, the many variables one navigates in the journey\, and why the connections you cannot yet see may end up being the most valuable ones. \nAbout the Lecture: The Yata Memorial Lecture in Robotics is presented by the Robotics Institute\, in conjunction with the SCS Distinguished Lecture Series. Teruko Yata was a postdoctoral fellow in the Robotics Institute from 2000 until her untimely death in 2002. After graduating from the University of Tsukuba\, working under the guidance of Prof. Yuta\, she came to the United States. At Carnegie Mellon\, she served as a post-doctoral fellow in the Robotics Institute for three years\, under Chuck Thorpe. Teruko’s accomplishments in the field of ultrasonic sensing were highly regarded and won her the Best Student Paper Award at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in 1999. It was frequently noted\, and we always remember\, that “the quality of her work was exceeded only by her kindness and thoughtfulness as a friend.” Join us in paying tribute to our extraordinary colleague and friend through this most unique and always exciting lecture. \nKeywords: \nAlumni\, Robotics Institute (RI)\, School of Computer Science
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/the-teruko-yata-memorial-lecture-in-robotics-boris-sofman/
LOCATION:Gates-Hillman Center 4401
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:RISO: Fireside Chat with David Silver
DESCRIPTION: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! \nDave 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 career includes nearly a decade at Waymo and Google starting in 2013\, with his tenure as a Waymo Technical Lead on Scene Understanding beginning in January 2017. Currently the Director of Robotics at Wayve\, he has since directed engineering organizations at John Deere and Iron Ox. \nRSVP at https://forms.gle/j9p4FpkRjc6Gkwr2A or at the QR code in the flyer!
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/riso-fireside-chat-with-david-silver/
LOCATION:Newell-Simon Hall 3305
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:F25 MRSD Poster Session
DESCRIPTION:Student teams from the Robotic Systems Development (MRSD) program will present posters\, videos\, and hardware related to their projects. Please come and see their efforts!\nThis year’s MRSD projects are robots for an autonomous wheelchair\, drone-based battlefield triage\, sandwich making\, knee surgery\, pepper picking\, manufacturing tote transporting\, fire search-and-rescue\, dual-arm QC inspection for manufacturing\, and sun-synchronous lunar circumnavigation. \nhttps://mrsd.ri.cmu.edu/project-examples/student-project-websites/spring-2025-fall-2025/
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/f25-mrsd-poster-session/
LOCATION:NSH Atrium
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T163000
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SUMMARY:OpenVDB
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: As the inventor of VDB and founder of OpenVDB\, I am excited to talk about its history\, motivation\, and diverse adoption. Specifically\, this lecture will cover the underlying VDB data structure\, and its adoption to computer graphics\, physics simulations and more recently machine learning. Since its open-source release in 2012\, OpenVDB has become an industry standard and has been used in numerous VFX franchises like “Avatar”\, “Avengers”\, “The Mummy”\, “Pirates of the Caribbean”\, “Kung Fu Panda”\, and “How to Train Your Dragon”. It is adopted by numerous commercial software packages used by the entertainment industry\, including Houdini\, RenderMan\, Arnold\, Blender\, and Unreal Engine\, just to mention a few. OpenVDB has also found use in many areas outside of media and entertainment\, including SLAM\, autonomous driving\, topology optimization\, semiconductor designs\, 3D printing\, medical imaging\, rocket design\, aerial surveillance\, robotics\, and many machine learning applications. Finally\, OpenVDB was the first open-source project to be adopted by the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) and the Linux Foundation (in 2018). \nBio: Ken Museth is Sr Director of the High-Fidelity Physics Research team at Nvidia and chair of the Technical Steering Committee for OpenVDB under the Academy Software Foundation. He has a PhD in quantum physics from Copenhagen University and did his postgraduate studies in computer science at Caltech. Previously he was a Sr. Computational Scientist at SpaceX for six years\, working on CFD simulations of the Raptor engine\, Head of Simulation R&D at Weta FX for three years\, working on James Cameron’s Avatar 2\, director for FX and CFX simulation teams at DreamWorks Animation for eight years\, Sr Software Engineer at Digital Domain for three years\, full tenured professor in computer graphics at Linköping University for four years\, where he supervised five PhD and 15 MSc students\, and research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for three years\, working on space-mission design and visualization. Ken invented and founded OpenVDB for which he won two Academy Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; a Technical Achievement Award (Academy Certificate) in 2015 and a Scientific & Engineering Award (Academy Plaque) in 2024. Additionally\, in 2023 he was awarded the ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioner Award and was accepted into the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy. Ken has served on the Technical Papers Committee for ACM SIGGRAPH multiple times and has 29 movie credits\, including on franchises like “Avatar”\, “Avengers”\, “The Mummy”\, “Pirates of the Caribbean”\, “Kung Fu Panda”\, and “How to Train Your Dragon”. \nWebsite: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/prl/author/ken-museth/ \nPoster:  https://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/cmgc/ken-museth.pdf \nThe Carnegie Mellon Graphics Colloquium is hosted by the Carnegie Mellon Graphics Lab and supported by Meta and Adobe.
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/openvdb/
LOCATION:Gates-Hillman Center 4401
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:Robotics Institute Semi-formal
DESCRIPTION:Hello all Robotics Institute faculty\, students\, visitors and staff\, You and a guest are cordially invited to attend The Robotics Institute Semi-formal
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/robotics-institute-semi-formal-2/
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:2025 National Robotics Week Robotics Institute Open House
DESCRIPTION:12:00 – 4:00 pm: PUBLIC SPACE ROBOTS
\nOpen to the public\n\nTANK the roboceptionist\nNewell-Simon Hall 3rd floor entry area
Meet Marion (Tank) LeFleur\, Newell-Simon’s Roboceptionist. He’ll be glad to see you! The goal of the project is to produce a robot helpmate that is useful\, exhibits social competence\, and remains compelling to interact with for an extended period of time.\n\n12:00 – 4:00 pm: ROBOTICS INSTITUTE LAB TOURS
\nTours are now full and registration is closed for this event.\n\n12:00 – 4:00 pm: NEWELL-SIMON HALL PERLIS ATRIUM ROBOT DEMONSTRATIONS
\nOpen to the public.\n\n12:00 noon – 2:00 pm: 31ST ANNUAL MOBOT RACES
\nLocation: Walkway outside of Wean Hall
Open to the public\n\n3:00 – 4:00 pm: THE 15th GATE: MOBOT AWARD CEREMONY and WRAP-UP\nLocation: Rashid Auditorium – Gates & Hillman 4401 – 3:00 pm\nOpen to the public\n\n4:00 – 5:00 pm: 
ROBOT RECEPTION NEWELL-SIMON HALL PERLIS ATRIUM
\nPre-registration is required.\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, April 5
\n \n2:30 – 5:30 pm: ROBOTICS CLUB 40TH ANNIVERSARY \nLocation: Peter\, Wright\, and McKenna rooms of the University Center.\nThere will be club project demos\, tours\, and many faces\, old and new (there will also be cake!)
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/2025-national-robotics-week-robotics-institute-open-house/
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:Teruko Yata Memorial Lecture in Robotics
DESCRIPTION:Title: Learning World Simulators from Data\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: \nModern foundational models have achieved superhuman performance in many logic and mathematical  reasoning tasks by learning to think step by step.  However\, their ability to understand videos\, and\, consequently\, control embodied agents\, lags behind. They often make mistakes in recognizing simple activities\, and often hallucinate when  generating videos. This raises a fundamental question: What is the equivalent of thinking step-by-step for visual recognition and prediction? \nIn this talk\, we argue that step-by-step visual reasoning has much to do with inverting a physics simulator\, that is\, mapping raw video pixels back to a structured\, 3D-like neural representation of the world. This  involves inferring 3D neural representations of  objects\, parts\, their 3D motion and appearance trajectories\, estimating camera movements and 3D scene structure and physics properties.  We will discuss methods to automatically extract such 3D neural representations from images and videos using generative model priors and end-to-end feed-forward models. We will present methods that inject such knowledge of camera motion and 3D scene structure in modern VLMs and show it improves their ability to ground language and control robot manipulators. \nHow can we scale up annotations for such simulator inversion? We will discuss methods that use generative models  of language and vision to automate development of 3D simulations in physics engines. Additionally\, we will discuss our efforts in developing faster and more general physics engines. The integration of physics engines with generative models aims to automate the replication of real physical environments within the physics simulator\, enabling more accurate and scalable world simulation data for sim-to-real learning of 3D perception and action. We believe such real-to-sim and sim-to-real learning paradigms are very hopeful for developing robots that can see and think accurately\, step-by-step. \n\n\n\n\n\nBio:  \nKaterina Fragkiadaki is the JPMorgan Chase Associate Professor in the Machine Learning Department in Carnegie Mellon University. She received her undergraduate diploma from Electrical and Computer Engineering in the National Technical University of Athens.  \nShe received her Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania and was a postdoctoral fellow in \nUC Berkeley and Google research after that.  Her work focuses on combining \nforms of common sense reasoning\, such as spatial understanding and 3D scene understanding\, with deep visuomotor learning.  The goal of her work is to enable few-shot learning and continual learning for perception\, action and language grounding.  Her  group develops methods for computer vision for mobile agents\, 2D and 3D visual parsing\, 2D-to-3D perception\,  vision-language grounding\,  learning of object dynamics\, navigation and manipulation policies. Pioneering innovations of her group’s research include 2D-to-3D geometry-aware neural networks for 3D understanding from 2D video streams\,   analogy-forming networks for memory-augmented few-shot visual parsing\, and language-grounding in 2D and 3D scenes with bottom-up and top-down attention.  Her work has been awarded with a best Ph.D. thesis award\,  an NSF CAREER award\, AFOSR Young Investigator award\, a DARPA Young Investigator award\, Google\, TRI\, Amazon\, NVIDIA\, UPMC and Sony faculty research awards. She was a program chair for ICLR 2024. \n\n\n\n— \nAbout the Lecture: The Yata Memorial Lecture in Robotics is part of the School of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series. Teruko Yata was a postdoctoral fellow in the Robotics Institute from 2000 until her untimely death in 2002. After graduating from the University of Tsukuba\, working under the guidance of Prof. Yuta\, she came to the United States. At Carnegie Mellon\, she served as a post-doctoral fellow in the Robotics Institute for three years\, under Chuck Thorpe. Teruko’s accomplishments in the field of ultrasonic sensing were highly regarded and won her the Best Student Paper Award at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in 1999. It was frequently noted\, and we always remember\, that “the quality of her work was exceeded only by her kindness and thoughtfulness as a friend.” Join us in paying tribute to our extraordinary colleague and friend through this most unique and always exciting lecture.\n\n\n\n\n\nFor More Information\, Please Contact:\n\ndmz@andrew.cmu.edu
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/teruko-yata-memorial-lecture-in-robotics-4/
LOCATION:Rashid Auditorium 4401
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:Robotics Institute Winter Party
DESCRIPTION:All Robotics Institute Faculty. Staff\, Students\, and Visitors are invited to attend this event. \nPlease join us for food\, beverages\, and casual conversation with colleagues. \nA calendar invite including details will be sent closer to the event.
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/robotics-institute-winter-party-5/
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:F24 MRSD poster session
DESCRIPTION:Nine student teams from the MRSD program will use posters\, videos\, and hardware to show their project work on robots for creosote cleaning\, fire localization\, car parking\, cornstalk nitrate monitoring\, knee replacement surgery\, weeding\, drone-based sensing for VR/AR\, reforestation\, and hospital inventory management. \nhttps://mrsd.ri.cmu.edu/project-examples/student-project-websites/spring-2024-fall-2024/
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/f24-mrsd-poster-session/
LOCATION:NSH Atrium
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241125T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241125T110000
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SUMMARY:MSCV Poster Session for 2024 Capstones
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/mscv-poster-session-for-2024-capstones/
LOCATION:GHC 6115
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240904T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240904T190000
DTSTAMP:20260911T194515
CREATED:20240903T174340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240903T174340Z
UID:143101-1725469200-1725476400@www.ri.cmu.edu
SUMMARY:Ice Cream Social
DESCRIPTION:Join RISO at the\nIce Cream Social \nrobolounge @5-7\nWednesday\nSeptember 4th \nFree Entry
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/ice-cream-social/
LOCATION:RoboLounge and NSH Patio
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="RISO":MAILTO:RI-SO@ANDREW.CMU.EDU
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240830T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240830T160000
DTSTAMP:20260911T194515
CREATED:20240711T141215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240725T170927Z
UID:141783-1725012000-1725033600@www.ri.cmu.edu
SUMMARY:CMU Robot Learning Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Faculty Presentations.  Details to follow.
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/cmu-robot-learning-workshop/
LOCATION:3305 Newell-Simon Hall
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240413
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240415
DTSTAMP:20260911T194516
CREATED:20240308T010424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240308T010524Z
UID:140100-1712966400-1713139199@www.ri.cmu.edu
SUMMARY:Robotics Institute PhD Student Retreat
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/robotics-institute-phd-student-retreat/
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T170000
DTSTAMP:20260911T194516
CREATED:20240328T173521Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240328T173521Z
UID:140273-1712923200-1712941200@www.ri.cmu.edu
SUMMARY:2024 Robotics Institute National Robotics Week Celebration Tours and Demos
DESCRIPTION:April 12\n1:00 – 4:00 pm: PUBLIC SPACE ROBOTS\nOpen to the public \nTANK the roboceptionist\nNewell-Simon Hall 3rd floor entry area\nMeet Marion (Tank) LeFleur\, Newell-Simon’s Roboceptionist. He’ll be glad to see you! The goal of the project is to produce a robot helpmate that is useful\, exhibits social competence\, and remains compelling to interact with for an extended period of time. \n1:00 – 4:00 pm: ROBOTICS INSTITUTE LAB TOURS\nVisit 3 lab spaces. Tour length is one hour. Space is limited. Pre-registration is required. \n1:00 – 4:00 pm: NEWELL-SIMON HALL PERLIS ATRIUM ROBOT DEMONSTRATIONS\nOpen to the public. \n12:00 noon – 2:00 pm: 30TH ANNUAL MOBOT RACES\nLocation: Walkway outside of Wean Hall\nOpen to the public \n3:00 – 4:00 pm: THE 15th GATE: MOBOT AWARD CEREMONY and WRAP-UP\nLocation: Rashid Auditorium – Gates & Hillman 4401 – 3:00 pm\nOpen to the public \n4:00 – 5:00 pm: 
ROBOT RECEPTION\nPre-registration is required.
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/2024-robotics-institute-national-robotics-week-celebration-tours-and-demos/
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Debra Tobin":MAILTO:dmz@cs.cmu.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T163000
DTSTAMP:20260911T194516
CREATED:20240308T011550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240308T011619Z
UID:140103-1710946800-1710952200@www.ri.cmu.edu
SUMMARY:Robotics Institute Faculty/Staff Social
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/robotics-institute-faculty-staff-social/
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T170000
DTSTAMP:20260911T194516
CREATED:20240308T005703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240308T005703Z
UID:140096-1709816400-1709830800@www.ri.cmu.edu
SUMMARY:National Robotics Week - Robotics Institute Open House
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/national-robotics-week-robotics-institute-open-house-2/
CATEGORIES:Special Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/app/uploads/2017/03/NRW.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231201T180000
DTSTAMP:20260911T194516
CREATED:20231116T145955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231116T145955Z
UID:138890-1701446400-1701453600@www.ri.cmu.edu
SUMMARY:Robotics Institute Winter Party
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for some fun\, food\, beverages and conversation!\n\n\nAll RI faculty\, staff\, students and visitors are invited to the Robotics Institute Winter Party! \nWe apologize but due to space limitations in the Atrium we regretfully cannot include family or other non-RI guests.
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/robotics-institute-winter-party-3/
LOCATION:Newell-Simon Hall Perlis Atrium
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Debra Tobin":MAILTO:dmz@cs.cmu.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230912T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230912T123000
DTSTAMP:20260911T194516
CREATED:20230907T182150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230911T132322Z
UID:138221-1694516400-1694521800@www.ri.cmu.edu
SUMMARY:Founding a successful Robotics Startup
DESCRIPTION:Join entrepreneur Samay Kohli as he traces his journey taking industrial robotics from university research to mass adoption. Kohli will reflect on key inflection points in scaling his company’s solutions\, including pivoting from individual robot products to an integrated system\, building for variability in emerging markets\, and aligning with industry needs. He’ll discuss critical mindset shifts required at each stage of evolution – from an idea\, to a product\, to an application\, and eventually a scalable solution. In the second half of his talk\, Kohli will share insights on how he could have accelerated this expansion through clearer focus on core problems first rather than technology\, seeking global expertise early\, and identifying adjacent growth opportunities like software services. Attendees will learn frameworks for developing university research into real-world technologies\, strategies for survival and growth amid industry disruptions\, and lessons in entrepreneurial perseverance from Kohli’s 15+ year journey. With Kohli’s experience taking robotics from labs to warehouses worldwide\, this talk provides a unique perspective for aspiring entrepreneurs at the intersection of innovation and implementation.\n \nBio: Mr. Samay Kohli is a Co-Founder and serves as a Board Member at GreyOrange. He served as Chief Executive Officer at GreyOrange. GreyOrange is an industry-leading robotics company that develops warehouse automation solutions. Under Samay’s leadership over the past decade\, GreyOrange has become one of the fastest-growing robotics companies globally\, with over 650 employees and offices in India\, Japan\, Germany\, Singapore\, and the US. The extraordinary growth pace of GreyOrange speaks volumes of Samay’s contribution both as a builder/leader and a visionary who has transformed the supply chain automation industry globally with over 10k robots deployed. Samay himself is an impressive entrepreneur and thought leader in the robotics space. He has over 13 years of experience working in robotics\, supply chain technology\, and manufacturing industries. Samay’s passion for Robotics started about a decade ago. He was part of the team that created one of India’s first indigenous humanoid robots – AcYut. Samay has participated in robotics competitions across 13 countries; winning a Gold medal at the ROBOlympics in 2009. An alumnus of BITS (Pilani)\, India\, Samay has been a keynote speaker at several prominent technology conferences around the world\, and has been featured in many publications including Forbes\, Economic Times\, The Fortune\, and has made his way to MIT Technology Review’s global list of “35 Innovators under 35”.
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/founding-a-successful-robotics-startup/
LOCATION:Newell-Simon Hall 3305
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230829T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230829T190000
DTSTAMP:20260911T194516
CREATED:20230518T132130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230518T135452Z
UID:135992-1693314000-1693335600@www.ri.cmu.edu
SUMMARY:RI Picnic
DESCRIPTION:The RI Picnic will be held at the Vietnam Veteran’s Pavilion @ Schenley Park on Overlook Drive\, Tuesday\, August 29\, 1-7pm. \nSOCIALIZE\, EAT\, DRINK & BE MERRY!\nReceive this year’s RI giveaway item; witness the exciting final rounds of the annual RI croquet tournament; enjoy lawn games right at our own pavilion area. Plan to spend some time at the playground adjacent to our pavilion with your children. Our dinner will be catered by a variety of food and beverage trucks that will be located in the parking area of the pavilion. \nTentative Schedule\n1:00 Picnic begins!\n2:00 – 7:00 Food trucks\n5:00 RI croquet tournament\n7:00 Picnic officially ends \nIn case of rain we have a covered pavilion. We have board games and cards to help us pass the time until the sun appears. \nSummer Casual dress. \nDogs and other pets must be on a leash and under the control of the owner.\nNo pets are allowed on playgrounds or courts at any time. \n  \nStreet parking will be available on Overlook Drive.
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/ri-picnic/
LOCATION:Schenley Park Vietnam Veteran’s Pavilion\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Debra Tobin":MAILTO:dmz@cs.cmu.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230821T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230825T170000
DTSTAMP:20260911T194516
CREATED:20230804T002938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230804T002938Z
UID:137186-1692604800-1692982800@www.ri.cmu.edu
SUMMARY:RI  Orientation
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/ri-orientation/
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T133000
DTSTAMP:20260911T194516
CREATED:20230406T140425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230413T171316Z
UID:135525-1681387200-1681392600@www.ri.cmu.edu
SUMMARY:Teruko Yata Memorial Lecture : Mobility and Manipulation Independence with Interface-Aware Robotics Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Brenna Argall is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering\, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Northwestern University. Her research lies at the intersection of robotics autonomy\, machine learning and human rehabilitation. She is director of the assistive & rehabilitation robotics laboratory (argallab) at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC\, now the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab)\, the nation’s premier rehabilitation hospital. The mission of the argallab is to advance human ability by leveraging robotics autonomy. \nArgall is a 2016 recipient of the NSF CAREER award\, and was named one of the 40 under 40 by Crain’s Chicago Business. Her Ph.D. in Robotics (2009) was received from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University\, where she was a member of the CORAL Research Group. Her B.S. in Mathematics (2002) also was received from Carnegie Mellon\, where she minored in Music and Biological Sciences. Prior to joining Northwestern and RIC\, she was a postdoctoral fellow (2009-2011) in the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Prior to graduate school she held a Computational Biology position in the Laboratory of Brain & Cognition at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/teruko-yata-memorial-lecture-2023/
LOCATION:Rashid Auditorium – 4401 Gates and Hillman Centers
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220916T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220916T180000
DTSTAMP:20260911T194516
CREATED:20220915T195113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T195616Z
UID:133610-1663344000-1663351200@www.ri.cmu.edu
SUMMARY:Argo Poster Session
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an opportunity to see what Center students have been working on.  Check out an Argo AI self-driving car in person\, and grab some free appetizers\, soft drinks\, and Argo AI swag! All are welcome to attend.
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/argo-poster-session/
LOCATION:Newell Simon Hall Atrium
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220826T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220826T180000
DTSTAMP:20260911T194516
CREATED:20220804T153019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220804T153105Z
UID:132773-1661500800-1661536800@www.ri.cmu.edu
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Orientation: RoboBuild
DESCRIPTION:Details provided to incoming students by their program coordinator: Suzanne Muth (PhD)\, Sarah Conte (MSCV\, MRSD) or B.J. Fecich (MSR).
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/graduate-student-orientation-robobuild/
LOCATION:Newell-Simon Hall 3rd Floor Atrium
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220825T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220825T190000
DTSTAMP:20260911T194516
CREATED:20220804T132534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220811T125114Z
UID:132761-1661432400-1661454000@www.ri.cmu.edu
SUMMARY:Robotics Institute Picnic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/robotics-institute-picnic-2/
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220824T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220824T170000
DTSTAMP:20260911T194516
CREATED:20220804T152903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220804T152903Z
UID:132771-1661353200-1661360400@www.ri.cmu.edu
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Orientation: MRSD/MSCV Networking
DESCRIPTION:Details provided to incoming students by their program coordinator: Sarah Conte (MSCV\, MRSD).
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/graduate-student-orientation-mrsd-mscv-networking/
CATEGORIES:Special Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220824T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220824T120000
DTSTAMP:20260911T194516
CREATED:20220804T152752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220804T152752Z
UID:132769-1661335200-1661342400@www.ri.cmu.edu
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Orientation: PhD/MSR Networking Event
DESCRIPTION:Details provided to incoming students by their program coordinator: Suzanne Muth (PhD) or B.J. Fecich (MSR).
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/graduate-student-orientation-phd-msr-networking-event/
CATEGORIES:Special Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220823T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220823T180000
DTSTAMP:20260911T194516
CREATED:20220804T152621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220804T152621Z
UID:132766-1661259600-1661277600@www.ri.cmu.edu
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Orientation Welcome & RoboOrg Reception
DESCRIPTION:Fall 2022 cohort Director Welcome\, Introduction to Resources\, and RoboOrg Reception. \nDetails provided to incoming students by their program coordinator: Suzanne Muth (PhD)\, Sarah Conte (MSCV\, MRSD) or B.J. Fecich (MSR).
URL:https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/graduate-student-orientation-welcome-roboorg-reception/
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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