Seminar

This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Safe and efficient motion planning is crucial for robots operating in dynamic and unstructured environments. To accomplish this, one must address key challenges. First, robots must understand the scene geometry to prevent collisions that could harm humans […]

This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Atomic systems (molecules, crystals, proteins, etc.) are naturally represented by a set of coordinates in 3D space labeled by atom type. This poses a challenge for machine learning due to the sensitivity of coordinates to 3D […]

This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT In the last few years, the ability for robots to understand and operate in the world around them has advanced considerably. Examples include the growing number of self-driving car systems, the considerable work in robot mapping, […]

This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. This week's speaker will be virtual.  ABSTRACT Lagrangian mechanics provides a powerful framework for modeling the dynamics of physical systems by inferring their motions based on energy conservation. This talk will explore recent advances in applying geometric perspectives, […]

*This seminar will be held in-person in Levine 307 as well as virtually via Zoom. This seminar will NOT be recorded. ABSTRACT This talk has two parts. First, I will explain our recent work on making it easier to control 3D soft robots. By extending our prior work on soft robot inverse kinematics (Soft IK) into […]

This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT In 2022 I represented Agility Robotics at the first “Philadelphia Summit” on the weaponization of autonomous robots, co-hosted by the GRASP lab and Boston Dynamics. By late fall, this yielded a joint statement, signed by Agility, […]

*This seminar will be held in-person in Levine 307 as well as virtually via Zoom. ABSTRACT Foundation models, such as GPT-4 Vision, have marked significant achievements in the fields of natural language and vision, demonstrating exceptional abilities to adapt to new tasks and scenarios. However, physical interaction—such as cooking, cleaning, or caregiving—remains a frontier where foundation […]

This seminar will start at 3:30 PM instead of 3:00. This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT When designing complex systems, we need to consider multiple trade-offs at various abstraction levels and scales, and choices of single components need to be studied jointly. For […]

This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Nature’s musculoskeletal design can inspire both artificial and living robots to create systems that can better interact within our unstructured world. There is value in rethinking how we design and control robots by replacing traditional designs […]