Rutgers Robotics Workshop 2024

The workshop is held annually as part of the NSF National Research Traineeship SOCRATES (Socially Cognizant Robotics for a Technology Enhanced Society) at Rutgers.

This annual robotics workshop is held for faculty, students, and industry representatives. The workshop will have both internal and external speakers as well as a poster session for students to present their robotics research. The workshop panels will discuss RobotGPT: current trends and future directions in robotics foundation model and unintended consequences of robotics foundation models.

Robotics Workshop Agenda:

8:30 - 9:00 Check - in

9:00 - 9:30 Introduction - Welcoming Remarks

9:30 - 10:30 Plenary Speaker, Camillo J. Taylor, UPenn “Perception and Control for Autonomous Systems”

10:30 - 10:45 Poster Spotlight Talks

10:45 - 11:30 Coffee break & Poster Session

11:30 - 12:30 Panel: RobotGPT: Current Trends and Future Directions in Robotics Foundation Models. Panelist: Kristin Dana, Kostas Bekris, Jingang Yi, Industry Representatives

12:30 - 1:30 Networking Lunch

1:30 - 2:30 Panel: Unintended Consequences of Robotics Foundation Models. Panelist: Qiong Zhang, Matthew Stone, Clint Andrews, Jacob Feldman

2:30 - 3:15 Student Talks (SOCRATES NRT fellows/trainees)

3:15 - 4:00 Robot Demos

Optional: Walk over to the CS Robotics Lab on 1 Spring Street for demo

4:00 - 5:00 Industry Consortium meeting at 1 Spring Street (by invitation for consortium members)

For more information, visit https://robotics.rutgers.edu/#workshop