Robotics, Vision, and Controls Talks

Welcome to the (soft) Robotics, Vision, and Controls Talks series hosted by ETH Zürich. These open talks focus on innovations in (soft) robotics, computer vision, and control systems, and are held in a hybrid format at ETH Zürich’s main campus.

About the Series

Schedule:

• Even weeks: Wednesdays at 12:00 PM UTC+1 in HG F26.5 (46 seats)
• Odd weeks: Fridays at 4:00 PM UTC+1 in HG E41 (50 seats)
• Location: ETH Zürich
• Join via Zoom – https://ethz.zoom.us/j/63716670526

Upcoming Talks

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Past Talks

Soft and Perceptive Robots

Prof. Dr. Perla Maiolino (University of Oxford)
May 2025

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Salp-Inspired Approach to Underwater Multi-Robot Locomotion

Prof. Dr. Cynthia Sung (University of Pennsylvania)
May 2025

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Autonomy On-Orbit and Beyond: Expanding Mission Capabilities in Extreme Environment Robotics

Prof. Dr. Keenan Albee (JPL / USC)
May 2025

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Advances in self-supervised multimodal learning

Prof. Dr. Hilde Kuehne (Tuebingen AI Center and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab)
May 2025

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Towards Next-Gen 3D Reconstruction and Generation: From Visual Fidelity to Multimodal and Physical Understanding

Prof. Dr. Lingjie Liu (University of Pennsylvania)
May 2025

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Modeling Humans for Humanoid Robots

Prof. Dr. Xiaolong Wang (UC San Diego)
May 2025

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Pathway to Robotic Intelligence

Prof. Dr. Pulkit Agrawal (MIT)
April 2025

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Building Generalist Robots with Agility via Learning and Control: Humanoids and Beyond

Prof. Dr. Guanya Shi (CMU)
April 2025

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Video understanding for skill learning

Prof. Dr. Kristen Grauman (UT Austin)
April 2025

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Desktop to Deep Sea: Mechanical Programming of Soft Machines

Prof. Dr. Kaitlyn Becker (MIT)
March 2025

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Robots With a Twist

Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Lipton (Northeastern / BG)
March 2025

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Embodied Multimodal Intelligence with Foundation Models

Dr. Oier Mees (UC Berkeley)
March 2025

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ReachBot: Locomotion and Manipulation with Exceptional Reach

Prof. Dr. Mark R. Cutkosky (Stanford University)
March 2025

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Insect-scale aerial robots driven by soft artificial muscles

Prof. Dr. Kevin Chen (MIT)
February 2025

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From Quantity to Quality for 3D Perception

Prof. Dr. Angela Dai (TU Munich)
February 2025

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