PhD Thesis Defense
RI PhD Thesis Defense – Junyu Nan
Date: Tuesday May 19, 2026 Time: 1:00 - 3:00PM (EST) Location: NSH (Newell Simon Hall) 3305 Zoom Link Type: PhD Thesis Defense Title: Learning Geometric, Physical, and Semantic Priors for Embodied Planning and Control Abstract: Embodied intelligence requires perceiving, predicting, and acting in environments with an understanding of the geometric, semantic, and physical structure of the world. Recently, [...]
RI PhD Thesis Defense – Kenneth Shaw
Date: Friday May 22 Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM (EST) Location: NSH (Newell Simon Hall) 3305 ZOOM Link Title: Building Robot Hands and Teaching Dexterity Abstract: Our human hands are masterpieces of power and precision, capable of typing, hammering, or delicately using chopsticks. Yet most robots today still rely on simple two-finger grippers in controlled settings because dexterous hands are [...]