Stanford Robotics Seminar

Stanford Robotics Seminar is a bi-weekly seminar series co-organized by the groups of Mark Cutkosky, Scott Delp, Allison Okamura, Ken Salisbury, and Oussama Khatib. This two-hour seminar series offers an opportunity for PhD students and post-doctoral scholars to present and discuss their research work providing all the Stanford Robotics community with a forum to interact and learn about the ongoing developments in various research areas of robotics.

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Announcements:

Special Seminar on April 26th, 12.30pm by Professor Mike Stilman - details can be found here.
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Feel free to share your robotics related events, jobs, and PhD defense annoucements..
A selection of photos from the first and second Robotics Seminar can be found here.

Organizer Labs

Laboratory	Faculty	Coordinator
	Mark Cutkosky	Santhi Elayaperumal
	Scott Delp	Jenny Yong
	Oussama Khatib	Emel Demircan
	Allison Okamura	Ryder Winck
	Ken Salisbury	Margaret Chapman

**Spring 2013 Schedule**
Date	Time	Presenter	Group	Title	Abstract
04/ 05/ 2013	15min	Troy Adebar & Ann Majewicz	Okamura	3D Robotic Needle Steering: Teleoperated Control and Ultrasound Segmentation
	5min	Jung Hwa Bae & Santhi Elayaperumal	Cutkosky	Haptic Feedback of a Force-Sensing Needle for MRI-Guided Interventions
	15min	Francois Conti	Khatib	Design, Control, and Simulation Strategies for Haptic Interfaces
	5min	Ryder Winck	Okamura	Model Mediated Teleoperation of Robots in Space Demo
	15min	Paul Karplus	Cutkosky	Robosimian Hand
04/ 19/ 2013	15min	Jack Wang	Delp	Optimizing Locomotion Controllers Using Biologically-Based Actuators and Objectives
	5min	Emel Demircan	Khatib	Robotics-based Reconstruction and Synthesis of Human Motion
	15min	Daniel Aukes	Cutkosky	Simulation-Based Tools for Evaluating Underactuated Hand Designs
	5min	Taizo Yoshikawa	Khatib	Compliant Multi-Contact Control for ASIMO
	15min	Tony Pratkanis	Salisbury	Replacing the Office Intern: An Autonomous Coffee Run with a Mobile Manipulator
04/ 26/ 2013 Special Seminar		Professor Mike Stilman		Humanoid Robotics: A Journey of Environment Manipulation, Language, and Control
05/ 03/ 2013	15min	Michael Yip	Camarillo	Model-less Control of Continuum Manipulators
	5min	Jinsung Kwon	Khatib	Framework for Online Motion-Plan Modification
	15min	Sonny Chan	Salisbury	Haptic Rendering of Medical Image Data for Surgical Rehersal
	5min	Andrew Stanley	Okamura	A Deformable Geometry, Variable Stiffness Tactile Display for Encountered-Type Haptics
	15min	Tim Dorn	Delp	Muscular Strategy Shift in Human Running Across a Range of Speeds
05/ 17/ 2013	15min	Kirk Nichols	Okamura	Autonomous Robotic Palpation: Machine Learning Techniques to Identify Hard Inclusions in Soft Tissues
	5min	Santhi Elayaperumal	Cutkosky	A Passive Master-Slave System for MRI-Guided Interventions
	15min	Jonas Forsslund	Salisbury	Spatial Haptic Interfaces as Open Source Hardware: A Future Toolkit for User Innovation
	5min	TBD	TBD	TBD
	15min	Morgan Pope	Cutkosky	Efficient Jumpgliding as a Test Case for Bimodal Locomotion
05/ 31/ 2013	15min	Iliana Nisky	Okamura	Human Motor Performance in Robot-Assisted Surgery
	5min	Alice Wu	Cutkosky	A Capacitive Normal/Shear Sensor for Dynamic Force Measurments
	15min	Matt DeMers	Delp	Tibiofemoral Forces during Walking are Sensitive to Activity of a Few Key Muscles
	5min	Zhan Fan Quek	Okamura	Skin Stretch Feedback for Sensory Augmentation/Substitution
	15min	Sergey Levine	Koltun	Guided Policy Search for Humanoid Locomotion

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