Archive of Seminar Series
2025-2026
Line-Up and Video Links
| Date | Speaker | Title | YouTube |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 11, 2025 | Heng Yang | Semidefinite Relaxations for Robot Perception and Control: From Theory to Practice and Back | (link) |
| Jan. 15, 2026 | Anirudha Majumdar | Video World Models That Know When They Don't Know | (link) |
| Feb. 19, 2026 | Thomas Lew | Uncertainty-Aware Control at the Limits | (link) |
| March 25, 2026 | Yan Gu | Prediction & Reaction in Motion: Humanoid Control for Non-Inertial Worlds and Athletic AI | (link) |
| April 10, 2026 | Somil Bansal | Learning Safety in the Open World: From Reachability to Foundation Models | (link) |
2024-2025
Line-Up and Video Links
| Date | Speaker | Title | YouTube |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 5, 2024 | Andrea Del Prete | Globally Optimal and Safe Robot Control | (link) |
| Feb. 6, 2025 | Ian Abraham | Optimality and Robustness in Robotic Exploration | (link) |
| Feb. 21, 2025 | Cosimo Della Santina | Motor intelligence in soft robots and other unconventional robotic systems | (link) |
| Mar. 13, 2025 | Jemin Hwangbo | Learning-based control for quadrupedal robots | (link) |
| Apr. 3, 2025 | Sylvia Herbert | Scalable safety analysis and control synthesis for nonlinear differential games | (link) |
2023-2024
Line-Up and Video Links
| Date | Speaker | Title | YouTube |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 1, 2023 | Yuval Tassa | MJPC: Asynchronous UI for real-time behavior synthesis | (link) |
| Jan. 31, 2024 | Alessandro Saccon | Impact-Aware Manipulation: Exploiting Intentional Collisions to Speed Up Task Execution | (link) |
| Feb. 23, 2024 | Noémie Jaquier | From Data Structure, Physics, and Human Knowledge: A Manifold of Robotic Geometries | (link) |
| Mar. 14, 2024 | Ludovic Righetti | Learning complex behaviors with nonlinear MPC | (link) |
| Apr. 19, 2024 | Toshiyuki Ohtsuka | Numerical Optimization for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control:From Smooth Nonlinearities to Switches, Jumps, and Logic | (link) |
2022-2023
Line-Up and Video Links
| Date | Speaker | Title | YouTube |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov. 18, 2022 | Zac Manchester | Composable Optimization for Robotic Motion Planning and Control | (link) |
| Jan. 13, 2023 | Carlos Mastalli | Building athletic intelligence in legged robots: a top-down approach | (link) |
| Majid Khadiv | Optimal Control and Learning for Agile Locomotion | (link) | |
| Feb. 17, 2023 | Justin Carpentier | Progress and prospects in optimization for control and learning in robotics | (link) |
| Mar. 24, 2023 | Nathan Ratliff | On the Geometric Foundations of Continuous Control | (link) |
| Apr. 28, 2023 | Hae-won Park | Model Predictive Control for Legged Robots: From Fast Quadruped Locomotion to Agile Climbing Systems | (link) |
| Ioannis Havoutis | Learning and optimization for locomanipulation with quadrupedal robots | (link) |