Alin Albu-Schäffer

Nonlinear Elastic Resonance Modes for Efficient Locomotion: From Biology to Robots and Back

DLR – German Aerospace Center
TU Munich

Antonio Bicchi

SymBionics, or About Being a Bot

University of Pisa

Oliver Brock

Intelligence: A Robotics Problem

Technische Universität Berlin

Herman Bruyninckx

Do you know that story about that robot that met another robot and asked “Why?”

KU Leuven, Belgium
TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Frank Chongwoo Park

To Learn or Not to Learn: Robot Modeling in the Age of Machine Learning

Seoul National University

Henrik Christensen

Human-Robot Collaboration in Urban Environments

UC San Diego

Rüdiger Dillmann

From Models to Neuromorphic Approaches for SNN-based Robot Control

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Ken Goldberg

Robo-Exoticism: Art, History, and Our All Too Human Machines

UC Berkeley

Sami Haddadin

Increasing the Closed Loop Dynamics of Robotics Research

TU Munich

John Hollerbach

Realistic Walking on a Treadmill

University of Utah

Makoto Kaneko

Fast and Fine Manipulation of RBCs in Artificial Capillary and Their Mysterious Behaviors

Osaka University

Oussama Khatib

TBD

Stanford University

Peter Corke

TBD

Queensland University of Technology

Giorgio Metta

iCub & friends: my quest for building a community of roboticists

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Yoshihiko Nakamura

TBD

University of Tokyo

Daniela Rus

Soft Capable Robot

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Roland Siegwart

From Robotics Research to Applications: A Difficult but Rewarding Journey

ETH Zurich

Siddhartha Srinivasa

Manipulation Challenges for the next 20 years

University of Washington