Keynote Speakers

Tuesday 22 May 2018

Morning
10:00 – 10:30am 


Speaker Title Room
Andrea Schoellig Machine learning for safe, high-performance control of mobile robots Great Hall
Stefan Hrabar Flying Underground – autonomous drone flight in underground mines M3
Lydia Kavraki Planning Beyond Motion Planning M4

Afternoon
2:00 – 2:30pm


Speaker Title Room
Ken Goldberg Getting a Grip on Robot Grasping: Metrics and Protocols for Reproducibility Great Hall
Margarita Chli Teaching robots to see M3
Matthew Dunbabin Robot vision to action in the wild – challenges and opportunities for vision in natural environments M4

 

Wednesday 23 May 2018

Morning
10:00 – 10:30am 


Speaker Title Room
Pieter Abbeel Learning to Learn Great Hall
Dana Kulic Human Motion Measurement and Analysis: from the Lab to the Clinic and the Home M3
Richard Vaughan Robust Interaction in Human-Robot Teams M4

Afternoon
2:00 – 2:30pm


Speaker Title Room
Sami Hadadin Form Building Robots to Bridging the Gap between Robotics and AI Great Hall
Louis Whitcomb Extreme Robotics: Underwater Robotic Exploration of the Karasik Seamount in the Arctic Ocean M3
Neil Gordon The search for MH370 M4

Thursday 24 May 2018

Morning
10:00 – 10:30am
 


Speaker Title Room
Barbara Mazzolai How to Build Soft Robots: Learning by Nature Great Hall
Paul Newman The Road To Anywhere-Autonomy M3
Goldie Nejat Can I be of Assistance?: Socially Assistive Robots as the Next Generation of Health Care Helpers M4

Afternoon
2:30 – 3:00pm


Speaker Title Room
Jana Kosecka Semantic Understanding for Robot Perception Great Hall
Jim Ostrowski Big Machines Caring for Little Plants: How Robotics is Changing Agriculture M3
Stefan Williams Applications in Marine Imaging M4