October 22, 2021 @ 10:30 am - 11:45 am GRASP on Robotics: Frank L. Hammond, Georgia Institute of Technology, “The Importance of Pneumatic Actuation in Adaptive Robotic Devices”
October 27, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Fall 2021 GRASP SFI: Matt Halm, University of Pennsylvania, “Physics-inspired learning for discontinuous contact dynamics”
October 29, 2021 @ 10:30 am - 11:45 am GRASP on Robotics: Russ Tedrake, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Planning on Graphs of Convex Sets”
November 3, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Fall 2021 GRASP SFI: Danaë Metaxa, Stanford University, “Studying Bias and Representation in Sociotechnical Systems”
November 5, 2021 @ 10:30 am - 11:45 am GRASP on Robotics: Ryad Benosman, University of Pittsburgh, “Event-based Neuromorphic Perception and Computation: The Future of Sensing and AI”
November 10, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Fall 2021 GRASP SFI: Conrad Tucker, Carnegie Mellon University, “Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Engineered-Systems Design”
November 12, 2021 @ 10:30 am - 11:45 am GRASP on Robotics: Cynthia Matuszek, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, “Approaches to Grounded Language Acquisition from Human Interaction”
November 17, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Fall 2021 GRASP SFI: Anthony Rowe, Carnegie Mellon University, “Weaving the Next Web with Spatial Computing”
November 19, 2021 @ 10:30 am - 11:45 am GRASP on Robotics: Dorsa Sadigh, Stanford University, “Learning and Influencing Conventions in Interactive Robotics”
December 1, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Fall 2021 GRASP SFI: Lucas Manuelli, NVIDIA, “Robot Manipulation with Learned Representations”
December 2, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Fall 2021 GRASP Seminar: Gregory S. Chirikjian, National University of Singapore, “Robot Imagination: Affordance-Based Reasoning about Unknown Objects”
December 3, 2021 @ 10:30 am - 11:45 am GRASP on Robotics: Dieter Fox, University of Washington, “Toward Object Manipulation Without Explicit Models”