Past Talks

19 March 2025 Speaker: Marta Skreta
Language Models in the Lab: Moving Towards a Robot Chemist
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5 March 2025 Speaker: Luis Figueredo
Getting Comfortable around Humans: A Path for Close and Physical Human-Robot Collaboration
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13 November 2024 Speaker: Andreea Bobu
Aligning Robot and Human Representations
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16 October 2024 Speaker: Pragathi Praveena
Robots for teams: Insights from designing the Periscope system to support remote collaboration
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4 September 2024 Speaker: Majid Khadiv
Optimal control and learning for contact-rich robotics
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7 March 2024 Speaker: Anushri Dixit
Perceive with Confidence: Statistical Safety Assurances for Vision-based Navigation
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8 February 2024 Speaker: Tabitha Edith Lee
SCALE: Causal Learning and Discovery of Robot Manipulation Skills using Simulation
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25 January 2024 Speaker: Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
Towards Robotic Caregiving: Building robots that work alongside human stakeholders
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11 January 2024 Speaker: Bengisu Cagiltay
Supporting Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction through Shared Family Routines
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21 December 2023 Speaker: Jaewon Kim
Cyber-Security of Networked Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS): theory and applications of the general-purpose pro-active cyber-attack defense methodology 'Dynamic Watermarking (DW)'
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7 December 2023 Speaker: Ankit J. Shah
How (temporal) reward abstractions help planning and task understanding
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23 November 2023 Speaker: Amartya Ganguly
Merging Fiction with Reality: Prosthetic Advances and the Luke Skywalker Paradigm
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9 November 2023 Speaker: Aaquib Tabrez
Building Trust and Transparency in Human-Robot Teams through Explainable Multimodal Communication
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3 November 2023 Speaker: Ross Mead
Introducing TAHRI: the International Symposium on Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction
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19 October 2023 Speaker: Lindsay Sanneman
Transparent Value Alignment: Foundations for Human-Centered Explainable AI in Alignment
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5 October 2023 Speaker: Micah Carroll
What We Want *Will* Change! What Should We Optimize For?
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6 September 2023 Speaker: Hooman Hedayati
Telephone Problem in HRI
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14 June 2023 Speaker: Ruchik Mishra
Personalized and Adaptive robotic intervention for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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17 May 2023 Speaker: Sarath Sreedharan
Human-Aware AI -- A Foundational Framework for Human-AI Interaction
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3 May 2023 Speaker: Akshay Sarvesh
Algorithms for Autonomous Navigation of Robots in Unstructured Terrain
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19 April 2023 Speaker: Bruno Vilhena Adorno
Complex Robotic Systems: Modeling, Control, and Planning using Dual Quaternion Algebra
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5 April 2023 Speaker: Daniel Grollman
A Human in the Loop Approach to Parcel Variability
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22 March 2023 Speaker: Saurabh Garg
Domain Adaptation under Relaxed Label Shift
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8 March 2023 Speaker: Bradley Hayes
Multimodal Planning and Communication for Human-Robot Interaction that is Safe and Collaborative
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22 February 2023 Speaker: Desik Rengarajan
Enhancing Reinforcement Learning Using Data and Structure
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8 February 2023 Speaker: Micol Spitale
Human-Robot Interaction For Assessing and Promoting Mental Well-being
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25 January 2023 Speaker: Taylor Kessler Faulkner
Enabling Robots to Adapt to and Learn from Real People
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11 January 2023 Speaker: Danfei Xu
Bridging Reasoning and Acting for Everyday Autonomy
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14 December 2022 Speaker: Hugo Caselles-Dupré
Pragmatically Learning from Pedagogical Teaching Signals in Multi-Goal Environments
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30 November 2022 Speaker: Yahav Avigal
The Jacobi library: time-optimized, jerk-limited, and collision-free robot arm motion planning
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16 November 2022 Speaker: Robin Kirschner
Tactile Interaction for Industrial Collaborative Robots: How to measure the robot technology readiness
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2 November 2022 Speaker: Sylvain Calinon
Robot learning from few examples by exploiting the structure and geometry of data
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6 July 2022 Speaker: Anastasia Ostrowski
Equitable Co-Design of Robots
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22 June 2022 Speaker: Ted Sumers and Mark Ho
Learning Rewards from Natural Language
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8 June 2022 Speaker: Abhishek Gupta
How to Get a Tenure Track Position
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11 May 2022 Speaker: Elisa Massi and Lorenzo Vannucci
Animals and humans brain mechanisms for robotics
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27 April 2022 Speaker: Michael Welle
Structured Representations for Object Manipulation
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13 April 2022 Speaker: Pratap Tokekar
CANCELLED: Near-Earth Sensing with Aerial, Ground, and Marine Robots
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30 March 2022 Speaker: Stefania Druga
Creative coding with AI Friends for Youth
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16 March 2022 Speaker: Sam Spaulding
Lifelong Personalization for Social Language/Literacy Companions: Interactive Student Modeling Across Tasks and Over Time
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2 March 2022 Speaker: Tiago Ribeiro
Autonomous Animation of Virtual and Robotic characters
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2 February 2022 Speaker: Samantha Reig
Characterizing Agent Identities as Mediators Among Individuals, Embodiments, and Services
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19 January 2022 Speaker: Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos
Mutual Understanding in Situated Interactions with Conversational User Interfaces: Theory, Studies, and Computation
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7 January 2022 Speaker: Tony Belpaeme
The HRI route to AI
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10 December 2021 Speaker: Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula
Taskography - Evaluating robot task planning over large 3D scene graphs
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26 November 2021 Speaker: Fethiye Irmak Dogan
Social Robots That Understand Natural Language Instructions and Resolve Ambiguities
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12 November 2021 Speaker: Ilaria Torre
Investigating and communicating motivation in social robot navigation
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5 November 2021 Speaker: Ruth Aylett
Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know
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29 October 2021 Speaker: Marynel Vazquez
Group Human-Robot Interaction: Challenges and Opportunities for Data-Driven Techniques
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15 October 2021 Speaker: Micah Corah
Active perception and exploration with teams of robots: From simulation to subterranean
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1 October 2021 Speaker: Daniel Brown
Leveraging Human Input for Robust Robot Learning
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17 September 2021 Speaker: Nikhita Singh
Robots in the Wild: From Academia to Industry
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9 July 2021 Speaker: Elin Bjorling
How Qualitative Methods Will Save Us from Designing the Wrong Robot : A Teenage Use Case
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25 June 2021 Speaker: Tanvi Dinkar
Representations of fillers and discourse markers in SLU: a psycholinguistic approach
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18 June 2021 Speaker: Jauwaria Nasir
What if Social Robots look for Productive Engagement? - Automated assessment of goal-centric engagement in learning applications
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28 May 2021 Speaker: Prashan Madumal
Causal Explanations for Reinforcement Learning Agents
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14 May 2021 Speaker: Shiwali Mohan
Using Insights about Human Cognition to Design Social Robots
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7 May 2021 Speaker: Christoforos Mavrogiannis
Formalizing the Structure of Multiagent Domains for Autonomous Robot Navigation in Human Spaces
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30 April 2021 Speaker: Shruti Chandra
Child-Robot Interaction: Learning and Playing with Social Robots
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16 April 2021 Speaker: Tesca Fitzgerald
Human-guided Task Transfer for Interactive Robots
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2 April 2021 Speaker: Filipa Correia
Group Intelligence on Social Robots
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19 March 2021 Speaker: Ross Mead
Bringing Robots To Life
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5 March 2021 Speaker: Kim Baraka
Humans and Robots Teaching and Learning through Social Interaction
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19 February 2021 Speaker: Nils Hagberg
A call for a Human Approach to Technology
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5 February 2021 Speaker: Glenda Hannibal
Trust in HRI: Probing Vulnerability as an Active Precondition
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22 January 2021 Speaker: Carl Mueller
Robot Learning from Demonstration Driven Constrained Skill Learning & Motion Planning
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15 January 2021 Speaker: Daniel Rakita
Methods and Applications for Generating Accurate and Feasible Robot-arm Motions in Real-time
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8 January 2021 Speaker: Barbara Bruno
Culture-Aware Robotics
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18 December 2020 Speaker: David Porfirio
Authoring Social Interactions Between Humans and Robots
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11 December 2020 Speaker: Nikolas Martelaro
Remote User Research for Human-Robot Interaction
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27 November 2020 Speaker: Manuel Bied
Integrating an Observer in Interactive Reinforcement Learning to Learn Legible Trajectories
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13 November 2020 Speaker: Natalia Calvo
How children build a trust model of a social robot in the first encounter?
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30 October 2020 Speaker: Taras Kucherenko
Gesticulating Agents: Why and How?
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16 October 2020 Speaker: Homanga Bharadhwaj
Learning RL policies adaptive to variations in the environment
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2 October 2020 Speaker: Naomi Fitter
Everything I Know about Telepresence
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25 September 2020 Speaker: Hang Yin
Efficient Representations in Learning Visual Planning and Contact-rich Tasks
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4 September 2020 Speaker: Michael Jae-Yoon Chung
Iterative Repair of Social Robot Programs from Implicit User Feedback via Bayesian Inference
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