Special Events

All Robotics Institute Faculty. Staff, Students, and Visitors are invited to attend this event. Please join us for food, beverages, and casual conversation with colleagues. A calendar invite including details will be sent closer to the event.

Title: Learning World Simulators from Data Abstract: Modern 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 [...]

12:00 - 4:00 pm: PUBLIC SPACE ROBOTS
 Open to the public TANK the roboceptionist Newell-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 [...]

Hello all Robotics Institute faculty, students, visitors and staff, You and a guest are cordially invited to attend The Robotics Institute Semi-formal

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 [...]

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 [...]