Distinguished Talks
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Alin Albu-Schäffer
Nonlinear Elastic Resonance Modes for Efficient Locomotion: From Biology to Robots and Back
DLR – German Aerospace Center
TU Munich
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Antonio Bicchi
SymBionics, or About Being a Bot
University of Pisa
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Oliver Brock
Intelligence: A Robotics Problem
Technische Universität Berlin
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Herman Bruyninckx
Do you know that story about that robot that met another robot and asked “Why?”
KU Leuven, Belgium
TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands
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Frank Chongwoo Park
To Learn or Not to Learn: Robot Modeling in the Age of Machine Learning
Seoul National University
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Henrik Christensen
Human-Robot Collaboration in Urban Environments
UC San Diego
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Rüdiger Dillmann
From Models to Neuromorphic Approaches for SNN-based Robot Control
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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Ken Goldberg
Robo-Exoticism: Art, History, and Our All Too Human Machines
UC Berkeley
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Sami Haddadin
Increasing the Closed Loop Dynamics of Robotics Research
TU Munich
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John Hollerbach
Realistic Walking on a Treadmill
University of Utah
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Makoto Kaneko
Fast and Fine Manipulation of RBCs in Artificial Capillary and Their Mysterious Behaviors
Osaka University
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Oussama Khatib
TBD
Stanford University
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Peter Corke
TBD
Queensland University of Technology
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Giorgio Metta
iCub & friends: my quest for building a community of roboticists
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Yoshihiko Nakamura
TBD
University of Tokyo
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Daniela Rus
Soft Capable Robot
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Roland Siegwart
From Robotics Research to Applications: A Difficult but Rewarding Journey
ETH Zurich
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Siddhartha Srinivasa
Manipulation Challenges for the next 20 years
University of Washington