The Agricultural, Biological, and Cognitive (ABC) Robotics Initiative

ABC Robotics Monthly Seminars

Last Monday of the month

NEW LOCATION: Building 51 (Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology)

Seminar room 015

Coffee at 9:45

Lecture beginning at 10:10

 

 

October 27

Dr. Nicolas Navarro-Guerrero, L3S Research Center at the Leibniz Universität Hannover

Towards Dexterous Manipulation: From Teleoperation to Autonomous Learning

 

 

 

November 26

Prof. Benedetto Allotta, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Florence

Wearable robotics for rehabilitation and assistance to disabled people with reduced hand function; Underwater robotics

 

 

 

December 29

Prof. Opher Donchin, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, BGU

Statistics You Can Trust: Why You Should Embrace Bayes

 

 

 

January 26

Prof. Nir Shvalb, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management, Ariel University

Hypo-paradoxical Linkages: Linkages That Should Move—but Don’t

 

 

 

February 23

Dr. Victor Bloch, the Volcani Center – Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Israel

Challenges for Agricultural Robots

 

 

 

March 30 - POSTPONED

Dr. Guy Laban, Dept. of Industrial Engineering & Management, BGU

Title:  TBA

 

 

 

April 27

Prof. Bat-El Pinchasik, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University

Insects Inspired Robotics

 

 

 

May 25

Dr. Guy Laban, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management, BGU

Sharing our emotions with robots: why do we do it, and how does it make us feel?

 

 

 

June 29

Speaker: Dr. Amber Maimon, Postdoctoral Researcher Computational Psychiatry and Neurotechnology Lab, BGU

Title: TBA