UW Robotics Colloquium

Supported in part by Amazon Robotics through the Amazon Science Hub at UW.

The Robotics Colloquium features talks by invited and local researchers on all aspects of robotics, including control, perception, machine learning, mechanical design, and interaction. The colloquium is held Fridays between 1:30-2:30pm (CSE2 G04 - Jeff & Mackenzie Bezos seminar Room - details will be sent over the mailing list). Special seminars outside this schedule are indicated below. Previously recorded talks are available on YouTube.

If you would like to register for the 1-credit CSE 590 R Robotics Colloquium seminar or give a talk in upcoming colloquia, please contact Sidd Srinivasa (coyneja@cs.washington.edu). If you would like to get regular email announcements and reminders about the robotics colloquium speakers, please sign up for the Robotics@UW mailing list.

you can read more about UW + Amazon Science hub on their website https://www.sciencehub.uw.edu.

Winter 2026 Organizers: Sidd Srinivasa, Abhishek Gupta, Maya Cakmak, Jamie Coyne

Upcoming Talks

Jan 30, 2026 01:30 PM
Terry Fong (NASA)

Feb 06, 2026 01:30 PM
Dinesh Jayaraman (University of Pennsylvenia)

Feb 13, 2026 01:30 PM
TBD

Feb 20, 2026 01:30 PM
Florian Shkurti (University of Toronto)

Feb 27, 2026 01:30 PM
Marynel Vazquez (Yale University)

Mar 06, 2026 01:30 PM
TBD

Mar 13, 2026 01:30 PM
Yash Narang (NVidia)

Past Talks

Jan 09, 2026 01:30 PM
Emer Dooley (UW Foster School of Business, Creative Destruction Lab)

Jan 16, 2026 01:30 PM
Kyle Johnson (University of Washington)

Jan 23, 2026 01:30 PM
Jiafei Duan (University of Washington)

Details of previous Robotics Colloquiua can be found here.