Events
UPCOMING EVENTS
Robotics Seminar @ Illinois:
Interaction-Aware Planning and Decision Making
Speaker: Dr. Tariq is a Senior Research Scientist in the Cooperative Intelligence - Mobility Research group at the Honda Research Institute, US.
November 21, 2025
ZOOM
1:00 PM CT
November 21, 2025
Interaction-Aware Planning and Decision Making
Dr. Tariq is a Senior Research Scientist in the Cooperative Intelligence - Mobility Research group at the Honda Research Institute, US.
November 14, 2025
Toward Advanced Autonomy in Complex Aquatic Environments
Dr. Wei Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
NOVEMBER 7, 2025
Towards Open World Robot Safety
Andrea Bajcsy is an Assistant Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University where she leads the Interactive and Trustworthy Robotics Lab (Intent Lab).
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OCTOBER 31, 2025
Illinois Student Talks:
Medical and Surgical Robotic Systems for Increased Access to Healthcare
Adaptive Stress Testing Black-Box LLM Planners
Alexander Smith is a sixth-year MD-PhD student at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine and the Siebel School for Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Neeloy Chakraborty is a fifth-year PhD candidate at the University of Illinois working in the Human-Centered Autonomy Lab.
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OCTOBER 17, 2025
Toward Intelligent Manipulation: From Multimodal Sensing to Neural-Symbolic Control
Dr. Yu She is an assistant professor at Purdue University Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering.
OCTOBER 10, 2025
Surgineering Using Intelligent and Flexible Robotic Systems
Dr. Farshid Alambeigi is the Leland Barclay Fellowship in Engineering Associate Professor in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has served since August 2025.
OCTOBER 3, 2025
Engineering Better Robot Learners: Exploration and Exploitation
Dinesh Jayaraman is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s CIS department and GRASP lab.
SEPTEBER 26, 2025
Diversity in Motion Planning via Parallel Probabilistic Inference
Fabio Ramos is a Professor in robotics and machine learning at the School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney and a Principal Research Scientist at NVIDIA.
SEPTEBER 19, 2025
Digital Agriculture and the Journey Towards Autonomous Machines
Dr. John F. Reid is Executive Director of the Center for Digital Agriculture and Research Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with joint appointments in the Siebel School of Computing & Data Science, the Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering.