The UW Robotics colloquium is 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 give a talk in upcoming Robotics Colloquia, please contact Jerry Savage (savagej@uw.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.

Autumn 2024 Organizers: Jerry Savage, Abhishek Gupta, Maya Cakmak, Josh Smith

Upcoming Talks

Dec 06, 2024 01:30 PM
A Sim-to-Real Journey for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Yashraj Narang (Research Manager at NVIDIA)

Past Talks

Oct 11, 2024 01:30 PM
Robot Learning with Minimal Human Feedback
Erdem Biyik (Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California)
Oct 18, 2024 01:30 PM
Beyond Rules and Rewards: From Pixels to Adaptive Policies through Imitation, Reinforcement, and Multimodal Learning
Kiana Ehsani (Senior Research Scientist at PRIOR and the Allen Institute for AI)
Oct 29, 2024 01:30 PM
GTSophy: Outracing champion Gran Turismo drivers with deep reinforcement learning
Ishan Durugkar (Research Scientist at Sony AI)
Nov 01, 2024 01:30 PM
"Trace"-ing the Path to Self-adapting AI Agents
Ching-An Cheng (Senior Researcher in MSR AI Frontiers)
Nov 08, 2024 01:30 PM
Concept Learning for Interpretable and Efficient Robotic Agents
Manav Kulshrestha (Ph.D. Candidate at Purdue University)
Nov 15, 2024 01:30 PM
Human-Centered AI for Accessible and Assistive Robotics: Towards a Disability-Centered HRI
Elaine Short (Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Tufts)
Nov 22, 2024 01:30 PM
Boeing Advanced Research Collaboration
Shuonan Dong (Associate Director, BARC Lab)

Details of previous Robotics Colloquiua can be found here.