Robotics Seminars

The Robotics Seminar series highlights innovative research and industry developments in robotics, featuring distinguished speakers from academia, government, and industry. Seminars are typically held on Fridays at 11 a.m. in 230 Rogers Hall, with occasional special sessions throughout the term.

Upcoming Seminars

 

Past Events

November 2025 to present

 

Seminars prior to November 2025

Houssam Abbas.

Normative AI

Houssam Abbas

Alan Fern.

AI Seminar: What is the road to humanoid laborers?

Alan Fern

Heesung Woo.

Robotic and Sensor Applications in Forestry: Opportunities and Challenges

Heesung Woo

Feifei Qian.

Make Every Step an Experiment: Towards Terrain-aware, High-mobility Robots for Planetary Explorations

Feifei Qian

American Artist.

Networked Lives and Digital Systems: Designing Identity in Virtual Spaces

American Artist

Kagan Tumer.

Learning in Robotics: Focus on 鈥渨hat鈥 rather than 鈥渉ow鈥

Kagan Tumer

Harry Yeff.

Augmented Voices: AI and New Creative Intelligence

Harry Yeff

OSU Crest.

Planning for Sequential Multi-Object Robot Manipulation with Learned Relational Dynamics Models

Yixuan Huang

Man posing with two people in alien costumes.

Letting Sleeping Robots Lay

Fernando Orellana

Ravi Balasubramanian.

Integrating robotics and human control systems

Ravi Balasubramanian

Julie Adams.

The Human-Robot Ratio (m:N) Theory: Limitations and Considerations

Julie A. Adams

Stavros Vougioukas.

Overcoming current limitations of fruit-harvesting robots

Stavros G. Vougioukas

OSU Crest.

Sierra Nevada Corporation Visit

Andy Smith

OSU Crest.

Project HORUS: A Case Study of Product Development

Ryan Quick

OSU Crest.

Challenges in Creating an Introductory Sequence in Robotics

Cindy Grimm

Marlena Fraune.

Towards user acceptance and accessibility in today鈥檚 robots

Dr. Marlena R. Fraune

Fuxin Li

From Sparse to Dense, and Back to Sparse Again?

Dr. Fuxin Li

Carina Buzo Tipton.

Access, Belonging, and Success in Research

Dr. Carina M. Buzo Tipton

Brian Do.

Variable Stiffness and Shape-Changing Robots

Dr. Brian Do

Wendy Ju.

Robots in the City

Dr. Wendy Ju