Distinguished Talks

Alin Albu-Schäffer
Nonlinear Elastic Resonance Modes for Efficient Locomotion: From Biology to Robots and Back
DLR – German Aerospace Center
TU Munich

Antonio Bicchi
SymBionics, or About Being a Bot
University of Pisa

Oliver Brock
Intelligence: A Robotics Problem
Technische Universität Berlin

Herman Bruyninckx
Do you know that story about that robot that met another robot and asked “Why?”
KU Leuven, Belgium
TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Frank Chongwoo Park
To Learn or Not to Learn: Robot Modeling in the Age of Machine Learning
Seoul National University

Henrik Christensen
Human-Robot Collaboration in Urban Environments
UC San Diego

Rüdiger Dillmann
From Models to Neuromorphic Approaches for SNN-based Robot Control
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Ken Goldberg
Robo-Exoticism: Art, History, and Our All Too Human Machines
UC Berkeley

Sami Haddadin
Increasing the Closed Loop Dynamics of Robotics Research
TU Munich

John Hollerbach
Realistic Walking on a Treadmill
University of Utah

Makoto Kaneko
Fast and Fine Manipulation of RBCs in Artificial Capillary and Their Mysterious Behaviors
Osaka University

Oussama Khatib
TBD
Stanford University

Peter Corke
TBD
Queensland University of Technology

Giorgio Metta
iCub & friends: my quest for building a community of roboticists
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Yoshihiko Nakamura
TBD
University of Tokyo

Daniela Rus
Soft Capable Robot
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Roland Siegwart
From Robotics Research to Applications: A Difficult but Rewarding Journey
ETH Zurich

Siddhartha Srinivasa
Manipulation Challenges for the next 20 years
University of Washington