Keynote speakers:

• Vincent Vanhoucke, Google Brain
• Wojciech Zaremba, OpenAI
• Chelsea Finn, UC Berkeley
• Emo Todorov, University of Washington

This one-day symposium will focus on emerging advances at the intersection of Robotics and Machine Learning, which is experiencing a surge in research activity using expressive learning methods such as deep learning.

The symposium will consider a range of approaches and applications with long and short presentations and posters, to identify research themes, open questions, and set the stage for the 3-day Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), a new annual meeting that will launch in November.

Other Speakers include: Fereshteh Sadeghi, Claire Tomlin, Pieter Abbeel, Anca Dragan, Gabe Elkaim, Ricardo Sanfelice, and Stavros Vougioukas.

Reception to follow from 5:00pm to 5:30pm.

Program

11:00: Welcome
11:15: Vincent Vanhoucke
12:00: Emo Todorov
12:45: Lunch and breakout sessions
02:00: Chelsea Finn
02:45: Lightning Poster Talks
03:15: Poster Session with Coffee Break
04:15: Wojciech Zaremba
05:00: Reception

We hope you can join us!

CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, CITRIS People and Robots, Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research

FAQs

What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event?

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How can I contact the organizer with any questions?

For program info: Please contact Ron Berenstein, People and Robots, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, at ron.berenstein@berkeley.edu.

For event logistics: Please contact Lorie Mariano, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute Events Manager, at lorie@citris-uc.org.

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