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DTSTAMP:20260913T221408
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T153000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:ClariTEA: Informal Undergraduate Advising Event
DESCRIPTION:ClariTEA is a weekly informal\, drop-in advising event where Robotics and Interested Undergraduate students meet with Robotics Undergraduate Academic Advisors. Refreshments and TEA are offered at each meeting.\n\nJoin us in having a conversation with the Robotics Undergraduate community.
UID:152068-21912791@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152068
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Robotics,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - Atrium
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261016T094345
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T180000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Robotics Pathways and Careers Speaker Series - Fall 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Robotics Pathways and Careers Speaker Series (RPCSS) invites professionals working in robotics to come talk with current undergraduates about their career path\, how a background in robotics has impacted their professional growth\, and what they hope to see in students looking to enter the profession.\n\nThe 90-minute format of the event will consist of a 40-minute presentation from the invited speaker and up to 30 minutes of moderated Q&A and discussion. Session available as in-person and virtual event. Virtual information is included in registration information.\n\n\nJeff Chu is a Principal\, Strategic Accounts at Invio Automation. In his role\, Jeff partners with manufacturing leaders to modernize discreet manufacturing and assembly lines. Jeff has experience in architecting automated solutions using industrial robotic arms\, custom automated machinery\, and autonomous guided vehicles. His past project work spans multiple industries including medical device assembly\, automotive and battery electric vehicles\, aerospace\, agricultural equipment\, and renewable energy. Jeff is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan (Mechanical Engineering\, 2014).\n\nRSVP Required for Event.
UID:152178-21914547@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152178
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Career,Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Robotics
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - 2300
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261015T163621
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261103T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261103T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Robotics Department Seminar Series: Towards Personalized AI Assistants
DESCRIPTION:Robotics Department Seminar Series (https://robotics.umich.edu/events/robotics-seminar-series/)\nSpeaker: Reid Simmons\, Research Professor\, Robotics and Computer Science\, Carnegie Mellon University\nTitle: \"Towards Personalized AI Assistants\"\nDate: Tuesday\, November 2\, 2026\nTime: 4:00 - 5:00 pm ET\nLocation: FRB 2300 + Zoom\nZoom Link: https://myumi.ch/9JjZ7\nMeeting ID: 910 7047 6728\nPasscode: 575785\n\nAbstract: As the population ages\, the need grows for AI agents to assist people to remain independent for longer.  Older adults are typically set in their ways\, so AI agents should adapt to their ways of doing things\, rather than the other way around.  To that end\, we are exploring various approaches to learning to personalize assistive agents\, including the use of bandit algorithms\, foundational models\, neuro-symbolic architectures\, and theory of mind.  This talk will present our approaches and results in several assistive areas\, including meal preparation and exercise coaching\, as well as work in learning policies from humans.  Much of the research is being supported by AI-CARING\, an NSF-sponsored Institute devoted to developing AI technologies to help older adults with cognitive and physical decline remain in their homes.\n\nSpeaker Bio: Dr. Reid Simmons is a Research Professor in the Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University.  He received his PhD from MIT in Artificial Intelligence\, and since coming to CMU in 1988\, his research has focused on developing self-reliant robots that can autonomously operate over extended periods of time in unknown\, unstructured environments\, and on human-robot social interaction\, especially non-verbal communication through affect\, proxemics\, motion\, and gesture.  He is co-PI and Research Director for the NSF-sponsored AI-CARING Institute.  Dr. Simmons is an author of over 250 publications on AI\, Robotics\, and Human-Robot Interaction and has graduated 25 PhD students.  He previously served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation\, where he oversaw the National Robotics Initiative and initiated the Smart and Autonomous Systems program.  In 2018\, Dr. Simmons helped found the first-in-the-nation standalone undergraduate major in Artificial Intelligence and currently serves as its program director.  He is a Fulbright Scholar\, a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence\, a Senior Member of IEEE\, and was an ONR Summer Faculty Fellow in 2022.
UID:153750-21916276@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153750
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Engineering,Free,Robotics
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - 2300
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260913T221408
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T153000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:ClariTEA: Informal Undergraduate Advising Event
DESCRIPTION:ClariTEA is a weekly informal\, drop-in advising event where Robotics and Interested Undergraduate students meet with Robotics Undergraduate Academic Advisors. Refreshments and TEA are offered at each meeting.\n\nJoin us in having a conversation with the Robotics Undergraduate community.
UID:152068-21912792@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152068
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Robotics,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - Atrium
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261016T094345
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T180000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Robotics Pathways and Careers Speaker Series - Fall 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Robotics Pathways and Careers Speaker Series (RPCSS) invites professionals working in robotics to come talk with current undergraduates about their career path\, how a background in robotics has impacted their professional growth\, and what they hope to see in students looking to enter the profession.\n\nThe 90-minute format of the event will consist of a 40-minute presentation from the invited speaker and up to 30 minutes of moderated Q&A and discussion. Session available as in-person and virtual event. Virtual information is included in registration information.\n\n\nJeff Chu is a Principal\, Strategic Accounts at Invio Automation. In his role\, Jeff partners with manufacturing leaders to modernize discreet manufacturing and assembly lines. Jeff has experience in architecting automated solutions using industrial robotic arms\, custom automated machinery\, and autonomous guided vehicles. His past project work spans multiple industries including medical device assembly\, automotive and battery electric vehicles\, aerospace\, agricultural equipment\, and renewable energy. Jeff is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan (Mechanical Engineering\, 2014).\n\nRSVP Required for Event.
UID:152178-21914548@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152178
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Career,Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Robotics
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - 2300
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261008T085913
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T193000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Defining the Discipline of Robotics for Excellence and Equity in an AI-driven World
DESCRIPTION:Start with a simple question: What is the best major for a student to become a roboticist?  In my role leading the creation of the Robotics Undergraduate Major at Michigan\, we tackled this question through the curricular challenge of how to both: 1) educate people to put ideas of the robotics discipline into practice and 2) endow them with the intellectual lens for creating new ideas that extend the frontiers of the robotics discipline -- where mobility and dexterity through humanoid robots are poised to have a transformative impact in our increasingly AI-driven world.\n\nIn this talk\, I will discuss my work to both advance the state of the art in semantic understanding for robotics and prepare students for possible futures where robotics and AI are abundant and ubiquitous.  I will present the design\, launch\, and innovations for the Michigan Robotics Major for undergraduates\, as robotics emerges into its own as a true academic discipline.  I will describe highlights from research in semantic 3D perception for mobile manipulation robots (including humanoids) to understand the form and function (or affordances) for a diversity of objects in common environments.  I will also share insights from my role as Program Chair of the AAAI-26 Conference (and its roughly 30\,000 submissions) and how this role\, and my experiences with Amazon AWS Machine Learning University\, has reshaped my perspective on AI for teaching at the university level.  Finally\, I will discuss new efforts in my course this semester to formulate \"mutation assessments\" that gauge student understanding of agentically coded projects.
UID:152086-21912972@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152086
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Academic Technology At Michigan,Artificial Intelligence,College Of Engineering,Free,Genai,Lecture,Robotics
LOCATION:Dana Building - 1040
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261015T205417
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Robotics Department Seminar Series: Beyond the Static World: Rethinking Manipulation Through the Lens of Dynamics
DESCRIPTION:Robotics Department Seminar Series (https://robotics.umich.edu/events/robotics-seminar-series/)\nSpeaker: Andrew Morgan\, Research Scientist - Tech Lead\, Robotics and AI Institute (RAI)\nTitle: \"Beyond the Static World: Rethinking Manipulation Through the Lens of Dynamics\"\nDate: Tuesday\, November 10\, 2026\nTime: 4:00 - 5:00 pm ET\nLocation: FRB 2300 + Zoom\nZoom Link: https://myumi.ch/WDMJm\nMeeting ID: 923 4651 9853\nPasscode: 802676\n\nAbstract: Recent advancements in Vision-Language-Action models and Behavior Cloning are reshaping decades-old assumptions in robot manipulation\, yet this progress remains largely anchored to a static worldview. The community continues to treat manipulation as an isolated end-effector problem\, ignoring the reality that in unstructured environments\, every physical contact is a collision and thus a dynamic event. For decades\, commercial hardware has been optimized for stiffness and precision\, resulting in effective endpoint masses an order of magnitude heavier than a human arm. This creates a severe impedance mismatch: unplanned contact results in undesired energy transfer\, especially when interacting with lightweight objects that have fast dynamic timescales. To address this fundamental limitation\, we introduce AthenaZero. Designed to minimize system inertia without sacrificing control authority\, AthenaZero achieves a human-equivalent effective endpoint mass. This architecture natively supports the physics of impact\, enabling a suite of dynamic manipulation tasks including throwing\, catching\, batting\, and juggling. By prioritizing physical fluency over rigid precision\, AthenaZero offers a new hardware foundation for contact-rich manipulation. \n\nSpeaker Bio: Andrew (Andy) Morgan is a Research Scientist at The Robotics & AI Institute in Cambridge\, MA. He received his PhD from Yale University's GRAB Lab under the supervision of Prof. Aaron Dollar in March of 2023. In this adventure\, he was the recipient of the NSF GRFP and the RSS: Pioneers awards. His research mainly focuses on planning\, control\, and design for robot hands and manipulators. During his PhD\, he also spent time at Amazon Robotics AI and TU Darmstadt working with Prof. Jan Peters. At RAI\, he focuses on the design and control of low-impedance\, high-torque manipulators for pushing towards dynamic contact interactions with robots. For more information\, visit his website: https://asmorgan24.github.io
UID:153756-21916281@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153756
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Engineering,Free,Robotics
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - 2300
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260913T221408
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T153000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:ClariTEA: Informal Undergraduate Advising Event
DESCRIPTION:ClariTEA is a weekly informal\, drop-in advising event where Robotics and Interested Undergraduate students meet with Robotics Undergraduate Academic Advisors. Refreshments and TEA are offered at each meeting.\n\nJoin us in having a conversation with the Robotics Undergraduate community.
UID:152068-21912793@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152068
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Robotics,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - Atrium
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261016T094345
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T180000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Robotics Pathways and Careers Speaker Series - Fall 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Robotics Pathways and Careers Speaker Series (RPCSS) invites professionals working in robotics to come talk with current undergraduates about their career path\, how a background in robotics has impacted their professional growth\, and what they hope to see in students looking to enter the profession.\n\nThe 90-minute format of the event will consist of a 40-minute presentation from the invited speaker and up to 30 minutes of moderated Q&A and discussion. Session available as in-person and virtual event. Virtual information is included in registration information.\n\n\nJeff Chu is a Principal\, Strategic Accounts at Invio Automation. In his role\, Jeff partners with manufacturing leaders to modernize discreet manufacturing and assembly lines. Jeff has experience in architecting automated solutions using industrial robotic arms\, custom automated machinery\, and autonomous guided vehicles. His past project work spans multiple industries including medical device assembly\, automotive and battery electric vehicles\, aerospace\, agricultural equipment\, and renewable energy. Jeff is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan (Mechanical Engineering\, 2014).\n\nRSVP Required for Event.
UID:152178-21914549@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152178
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Career,Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Robotics
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - 2300
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260913T221408
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261119T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261119T153000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:ClariTEA: Informal Undergraduate Advising Event
DESCRIPTION:ClariTEA is a weekly informal\, drop-in advising event where Robotics and Interested Undergraduate students meet with Robotics Undergraduate Academic Advisors. Refreshments and TEA are offered at each meeting.\n\nJoin us in having a conversation with the Robotics Undergraduate community.
UID:152068-21912794@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152068
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Robotics,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - Atrium
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261016T094345
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261119T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261119T180000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Robotics Pathways and Careers Speaker Series - Fall 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Robotics Pathways and Careers Speaker Series (RPCSS) invites professionals working in robotics to come talk with current undergraduates about their career path\, how a background in robotics has impacted their professional growth\, and what they hope to see in students looking to enter the profession.\n\nThe 90-minute format of the event will consist of a 40-minute presentation from the invited speaker and up to 30 minutes of moderated Q&A and discussion. Session available as in-person and virtual event. Virtual information is included in registration information.\n\n\nJeff Chu is a Principal\, Strategic Accounts at Invio Automation. In his role\, Jeff partners with manufacturing leaders to modernize discreet manufacturing and assembly lines. Jeff has experience in architecting automated solutions using industrial robotic arms\, custom automated machinery\, and autonomous guided vehicles. His past project work spans multiple industries including medical device assembly\, automotive and battery electric vehicles\, aerospace\, agricultural equipment\, and renewable energy. Jeff is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan (Mechanical Engineering\, 2014).\n\nRSVP Required for Event.
UID:152178-21914550@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152178
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Career,Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Robotics
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - 2300
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260913T221408
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261126T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261126T153000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:ClariTEA: Informal Undergraduate Advising Event
DESCRIPTION:ClariTEA is a weekly informal\, drop-in advising event where Robotics and Interested Undergraduate students meet with Robotics Undergraduate Academic Advisors. Refreshments and TEA are offered at each meeting.\n\nJoin us in having a conversation with the Robotics Undergraduate community.
UID:152068-21912795@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152068
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Robotics,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - Atrium
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260913T221408
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261203T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261203T153000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:ClariTEA: Informal Undergraduate Advising Event
DESCRIPTION:ClariTEA is a weekly informal\, drop-in advising event where Robotics and Interested Undergraduate students meet with Robotics Undergraduate Academic Advisors. Refreshments and TEA are offered at each meeting.\n\nJoin us in having a conversation with the Robotics Undergraduate community.
UID:152068-21912796@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152068
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Robotics,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - Atrium
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261016T094345
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261203T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261203T180000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Robotics Pathways and Careers Speaker Series - Fall 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Robotics Pathways and Careers Speaker Series (RPCSS) invites professionals working in robotics to come talk with current undergraduates about their career path\, how a background in robotics has impacted their professional growth\, and what they hope to see in students looking to enter the profession.\n\nThe 90-minute format of the event will consist of a 40-minute presentation from the invited speaker and up to 30 minutes of moderated Q&A and discussion. Session available as in-person and virtual event. Virtual information is included in registration information.\n\n\nJeff Chu is a Principal\, Strategic Accounts at Invio Automation. In his role\, Jeff partners with manufacturing leaders to modernize discreet manufacturing and assembly lines. Jeff has experience in architecting automated solutions using industrial robotic arms\, custom automated machinery\, and autonomous guided vehicles. His past project work spans multiple industries including medical device assembly\, automotive and battery electric vehicles\, aerospace\, agricultural equipment\, and renewable energy. Jeff is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan (Mechanical Engineering\, 2014).\n\nRSVP Required for Event.
UID:152178-21914552@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152178
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Career,Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Robotics
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - 2300
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260913T221408
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261210T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261210T153000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:ClariTEA: Informal Undergraduate Advising Event
DESCRIPTION:ClariTEA is a weekly informal\, drop-in advising event where Robotics and Interested Undergraduate students meet with Robotics Undergraduate Academic Advisors. Refreshments and TEA are offered at each meeting.\n\nJoin us in having a conversation with the Robotics Undergraduate community.
UID:152068-21912797@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152068
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Robotics,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - Atrium
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261016T094345
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261210T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261210T180000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Robotics Pathways and Careers Speaker Series - Fall 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Robotics Pathways and Careers Speaker Series (RPCSS) invites professionals working in robotics to come talk with current undergraduates about their career path\, how a background in robotics has impacted their professional growth\, and what they hope to see in students looking to enter the profession.\n\nThe 90-minute format of the event will consist of a 40-minute presentation from the invited speaker and up to 30 minutes of moderated Q&A and discussion. Session available as in-person and virtual event. Virtual information is included in registration information.\n\n\nJeff Chu is a Principal\, Strategic Accounts at Invio Automation. In his role\, Jeff partners with manufacturing leaders to modernize discreet manufacturing and assembly lines. Jeff has experience in architecting automated solutions using industrial robotic arms\, custom automated machinery\, and autonomous guided vehicles. His past project work spans multiple industries including medical device assembly\, automotive and battery electric vehicles\, aerospace\, agricultural equipment\, and renewable energy. Jeff is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan (Mechanical Engineering\, 2014).\n\nRSVP Required for Event.
UID:152178-21914553@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152178
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Career,Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Robotics
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - 2300
CONTACT:
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