Spring Semester 2025
March 31, 2025
Prof. Nili Krausz, Mechanical Engineering Department, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Building the Future of Prosthetics and Wearable Robotics
April 28, 2025
Jonathan Morag, BGU SISE Ph.D. student
Adapting to Planning Failures in Lifelong Multi Agent Path Finding
Ehud Nahum, BGU IEM Ph.D. student
Investigating the proxemics shape: an exploratory human-robot interaction study
May 26, 2025
Prof. Leo Joskowicz, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
June 30, 2025
Dr. Shachar Maidenbaum, Biomedical Engineering Department, BGU
Fall Semester 2024\25
November 25, 2024
Dr. Ayal Taitler, Dept of Industrial Engineering & Management, BGU
Integrated Planning, Learning and Control for Robots in Hybrid Environments
December 30, 2024
Prof. Polina Kurtser, Umeå University
Automating thermal leaks detection in building envelopes using unmanned and manned ground robots
January 27, 2025
Shani Arusi, BGU BME Ph.D. student
The Difference Between Hands in the Perception of Stiffness of Virtual Elastic Objects
Yoad Guetta, BGU ME Ph.D. student
On-Board Physical Battery Replacement System and Procedure for Drones During Flight
February 24, 2025
Dr. Firas Mawase, Biomedical Engineering Department, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Neural Control of Dexterity: From Behavior to Single-Cell Activity
Spring Semester 2024
May 27, 2024
Dr. Shirley Handelzalts, Department of Physical Therapy, BGU
Laboratory and real-world gait measurements in at-fall risk stroke survivors
June 24, 2024
Ori Fartook, BGU PhD student, IEM Dept.
Emotional Support Drone (ESD): A Personal Companion for Support and Regulation
Barak Ostraich, BGU PhD student, IEM Dept.
July 29, 2024
Hanna Kossowsky Lev, BGU Phd student, BME Dept.
Errors in Long-Term Robotic Surgical Training
Arseni Pertzovskiy, BGU PhD student, IEM Dept.
Optimization Challenges in Mobile Multi-Agent Systems
Fall Semester 2023/4
December 25, 2023
Synergy7 Indoor Robotics lab
HiTech Park Gav Yam 1 Building at 77 HaEnergia St, 12:00-14:00
The lab visit is open to all ABC Robotics researchers and students.
January 29, 2024
Viviane Herdel, BGU PhD student, IEM Dept.
Emotion Appropriateness in Human-Drone Interaction
Shikhar Kumar, BGU PhD student, IEM Dept.
February 26, 2024
Dr. Danny Eizicovits, CTO & Head of Business e2 Young Engineers
Overcoming Mass Production Hurdles in the IoT Revolution, Real Lessons Learned
March 25, 2024
Dr. Yoav Matia, Department of Mechanical Engineering, BGU
Putting Materials to Work: Functionalizing Matter in Service of Robotic Solutions
Spring Semester 2023
March 27, 2023
Prof. Sanja Dogramadzi, Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK
Physical Human-Robot Interaction - design and safety aspects for dressing and walk support
April 24, 2023
Melanie Samson, Acting CEO at Oazis Accelerator and Venture Builder
Meeting with researchers | Please contact Melanie at melanie@bgu.ac.il to set up a meeting on zoom.
May 29, 2023
Prof. Hadas Erel, Head of Social HRI research miLAB - Media Innovation Lab, IDC Herzliya
Dark patterns in human-robot interaction
June 26, 2023
Dr. Asaf Degani, Technical Fellow at General Motors R&D
Ethical Considerations for Autonomous Vehicles: A Formal Approach
Fall Semester 2022/2023
October 31, 2022
Ittay Mannheim, PhD candidate, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Implications of Ageism on the Use and Design of Digital Technology for Older Person
November 28, 2022
Daniel Polyakov, BGU PhD student, BCS Dept.
Recruiting Neural Field Theory model for a data augmentation in BCI-controlled drone
December 26, 2022
Dr. Igal Bilik, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, BGU
Sensing for Autonomous Driving
January 30, 2023
Prof. Erez Karpas, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion
Situated Planning
February 27 - cancelled ❌
Spring semester 2022
March 28, 2022
Shanee Honig, BGU PhD student, IEM Dept.
Thinking inside of the box – Exploring Research methods in HRI during a Global Pandemic
Oded Zafrani, BGU PhD student, IEM Dept.
Between Fear and Trust: Factors Influencing Older Adults' Evaluation of Socially Assistive Robots
April 25, 2022
Prof. Noa Agmon, Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University
Adversarial Robotics: From Teamwork to Swarms
May 9, 2022
Prof. Hod Lipson, Engineering & Data Science, Columbia University, New York
Automating discovery: From cognitive robotics to particle physics
May 11-12, 2022
Creative Collaborations 2: Art, Design and HRI Conference
The conference is a collaborative project between the Department of Arts (Nea Ehrlich), and the Department of Industrial Engineering & Management (Tal Oron-Gilad, Yael Edan) at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and the graduate program in Industrial Design at Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design, Jerusalem.
May 11: 15:00-18:30, W. A. Minkoff Senate Hall Building #71
May 12: 9:30-17:30, National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev Building #41
Registration is mandatory » 
Full Program
May 16, 2022
Prof. Susanne Boll, Department of Computing Science, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Humans, vehicles, and AI - tensions and opportunities
May 30, 2022
Prof. Lars Oddson, College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
A Wearable Sensory Prosthesis Improves Balance and Gait Function in Patients with Peripheral Neuropathy
June 27, 2022
Michal Rottem-Hovev, Yazamut 360, BGU
‘THE LAB’ Experience
Shimon Regev, BGU Ph.D. student, ME Dept.
Optimal Solutions with Multi-objective Considerations in a Non-cooperative Multi-agent Environment
Fall semester 2021/22
February 28, 2022
on zoom
Dr. Goren Gordon, head of the Curiosity Lab, Tel-Aviv University
January 31, 2022
on zoom
Shmulik Edelman, BGU PhD student, ME Dept.
Hyper Redundant articulated robot for NDT of closed complex structures
Tair Sela, BGU MSc. student, IEM Dept.
Human Preferences for Robot Eye Gaze in Human-to-Robot Handovers
David Spivak, Coordinator for Research Funding Opportunities at the Research & Development Authority, BGU, Upcoming EU Calls
📢 Please note one-time change in location:
Nano Building 51, room 015
Time: 10:10-11:00
Seminar is intended for researchers only
November 29, 2021Dr. Polina Kurtser, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Mobile Robots and Olfocation (MRO) Lab at the Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems, Örebro University, Sweden
Yogev Koren, BGU PhD student PT Dept.
The roads to walking stability
Ela Liberman Pincu, BGU PhD student - IEM Dept.
Spring semester 2021
February 22, 2021
Dr. Aslan Miriyev, scientist at Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, based in Dübendorf, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland.
Fusing Digital and Physical AI into Lifelike Robots
Amir Porat, PhD student at Tel Aviv University
A General 3D Model for Growth Dynamics of Sensory-Growth Systems
Prof. Inna Sharf, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University
Path Planning Problems for Timber-Harvesting Machinery
Prof. Maura Casadio, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Genoa, Italy
Body-machine interfaces from rehabilitation to robot control
Dr. Mitch Pryor, Research Scientist and Lecturer at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin
Towards routine use of flexible, assistive robotics in hazardous environments
Fall semester 2020/21
October 26, 2020
EU ITN SOCRATES Project Early Stage Researcher and BGU Doctoral Candidate, Shikhar Kumar.
The Effect of Dynamic Interaction on User: Evaluation of Politeness in HRI
EU ITN SOCRATES Project Early Stage Researcher and BGU Doctoral Candidate, Samuel Olatunji.
Socially Assistive Robots in Eldercare – Interaction Design for varying Levels of Automation
November 30, 2020
Dr. Reuth Mirsky, Post Doc in the Computer Science Department of University of Texas at Austin
Using Human-inspired Signals in Social Navigationg
December 28, 2020
Dr. Avishai Sintov, Senior Lecturer and the head of the Robotics Lab in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University
Learning Models for Underactuated Robotic Hands
January 25, 2021
Prof. Noah Cowan, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Locomotion in Mechanical and Biological Systems (LIMBS) Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University
Fall semester 2019/20
February 20, 2020
Prof. Ellen Bass, College of Computing & Infomatics; College of Nursing and Health Professionals - Drexel University
Special ABC Robotics and Industrial Engineering & Management Department Seminar on:
January 27, 2020
Prof. Oren Saltzman, Computer Science Department, Technion
Toward Asymptotically-Optimal Inspection Planning via Efficient Near-Optimal Graph Search
December 30, 2019
PhD student presentations:
Alap Kshirsagar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
Andre Potenza, School of Science and Technology, Orebro University
Development of a Telepresence Robot for Research
Rick van Essen, Biosystems Engineering, Wageningen University
Dynamic viewpoint selection for maturity detection of sweet peppers
November 25, 2019
Prof. Itzik Melzer, Physical Therapy Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, BGU
Properties Balance Control Associated with Unexpected Loss of Balance: Age-Related Differences
October 28, 2019
Prof. Yoram Halevi, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion,
Minimum Energy Control of Redundant Manipulators using Bi-level Optimization
Spring semester 2019
February 25, 2019
Amit Svarzenberg, Open Innovation Manager at Samsung R&D Institute, Israel
Samsung Research Open Innovation Technical Hurdles
March 24-25, 2019
Karniel Computational Motor Control Workshop
Due to the Karniel Computational Motor Control Workshop on March 24-25, the ABC Monthly Seminar for March will be on Wednesday March 27 in conjunction with the Biomedical department seminar
Time: 14:00-15:00
Location: Building 51, room 015
See Details below:
March 27, 2019
Prof. Allison Akamura, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Let's Be Flexible: Soft Haptics and Soft Robotics
April 29, 2019
Prof. Simon D. Levy, Visiting Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, BGU
Innovative Drone Research: Bridging the Gap between Hardware and Simulation
May 27, 2019
Dr. Jessica Cauchard, Industrial Engineering & Management, BGU
Are You Autonomous? Towards Designing Natural Interactions Between People and Drones
Fall semester 2018/19
October 29, 2018
Dr. Raziel Riemer, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management, BGU
Biomechanical energy harvesting as a base for exoskeleton: theory, design and results
November 26, 2018
9:45
Ephrat Messing, Research & Development Authority, BGU, Opportunities in the Robotics Area of Horizon 2020 with an emphasis on the upcoming Horizon 2019 calls
10:20-11:00
Polina Kurtser, Post Doctorate student, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management, BGU
Boaz Arad, PhD candidate, Department of Computer Science, BGU
Sweeper: Sweet Pepper Harvesting Robot
December 31, 2018
Dr. Tal Shafir, The Emili Sagol Creative Arts Therapies Research Center, University of Haifa
Emotion perception and expression through movement in human-robot interaction
Spring semester 2018
March 26, 2018
Prof. Mindy Levin, McGill University School of Physical and Occupational Therapy
Motor abundance, compensation and adaptability in the stroke-damaged nervous system
April 30, 2018
Dr. Guillaume Doisy, Chief Robotics Officer, Wyca
May 28, 2018
Guy Cohen-Lazry, BGU PhD student, IEM Dept
A Window to Autonomous Vehicles from a Human-Robot Interaction Perspective
June 25, 2018
Prof. Zvi Shiller, Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, Ariel University
On Optimal Trajectory Planning
Fall semester 2018/19
October 30, 2017
Dr. J. Michael Herrmann, Institute for Perception, Action and Behavior, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
Critical Brains for Autonomous Robots
November 27, 2017
Prof. Vladimir Gontar, Industria; Engineering & Management, BGU
December 25, 2017
Nir Dgani, Mechanical Engineering, BGU
Wave-like propulsion robot over flexible surface
Shir Kashi, Information Systems Engineering, BGU
Smooth leader or sharp follower? Playing the mirror game with a robot
Yarden Sharon, Biomedical Engineering
January 29, 2018
Tal-Chen Rabinowitch, University of Washington
The clockworks of human-robot collaboration
February 26, 2018
Dr. Hwee-Pink TAN, SMU-TCS iCity Lab, Singapore Management University (SMU)
Large-scale IoT Systems for Ageing-in-Place: Experiences and Lessons Learnt towards Sustainability
Spring semester, 2017
March 29, 2017
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Framework for Individualized Dynamical Modeling of Human Motion
April 24, 2017
Dr. Aleksandar Jevtić
Institute of Industrial Robotics and Informatics, Barcelona, Spain
May 29, 2017
Dr. Oren Friefeld, Department of Computer Sciences, BGU
Bayesian Mixture Models: Variants, MCMC Inference, and Applications
June 19, 2017
Prof. Michael Goodrich, Department of Computer Science, Brigham Young University, Utah, USA
July 3, 2017
Dr. Guy Rosman, Post-doctoral Researcher, MIT/CSAIL, Cambridge, MA, USA
Life-Long Adaptive Robotic Perception
Fall semester, 2016/2017
October 31, 2016
Roy Someshwar, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management
November 28, 2016
Dr. Aharon Bar Hillel, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management
Convolutional Table Ensembles – visual classification in the microsecond scale
December 26, 2016
Prof. Yakir Levin, Department of Philosophy
The Classic Model of Human Cognition
January 30, 2017
Dr. Avinoam Borowsky, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management
Human-machine Interaction in Driving Automation
Spring semester, 2016
February 29, 2016
Dr. Gábor Kósa, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University
Bio-inspired micro systems, robots and sensing systems
April 4, 2016
Dr. Ola Ringdahl, Dept. of Computing Science, Umea University, Sweden
A software framework for agricultural robotics using ROS
May 23, 2016
Dr. Heather Lum, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, USA
June 6, 2016
Dr. Jun Ueda, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Robotic Induction of Neuromodulation in Human Motor System
January 20, 2016
Zlotowski-ABC seminar - Dr. Armin Biess, Industrial Engineering & Management, BGU
June 8, 2016
Dr. Jason Friedman, Tel Aviv University
Modeling distributions of arm movements
Fall semester, 2015/2016
October 26, 2015
Dr. Ilana Nisky, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, BGU
Studying Human-Robot Interaction in the Lab and in the Wild to Help Patients
November 30, 2015
Prof. Gal Kaminka, Dept. of Computer Science, Bar Ilan University
No robot is an island, no team an archipelago
December 28, 2015
Prof. Alon Wolf, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Technion
The Human Machine Merger: Are we headed for the MMATRIX?
January 25, 2016
Prof. Amir Degani, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion
Optimal Orchard Architectures for Optimal Robot Manipulators
Spring semester, 2015
February 23, 2015
Prof. Yitzhar Or, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion
March 23, 2015
Prof. Ehud Sharlin, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada
“Counting Electric Sheep” Human-Robot Interaction in a Nutshell
April 27, 2015
Dr. Shelly Levy-Tzedek, Dept. of Physical Therapy, BGU
Sensorimotor learning with sensory substitution
May 25, 2015
Dr. Oren Shriki, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, BGU
EEG-based brain computer interfaces
June 29, 2015
Prof. Juan Wachs, School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
Embodied Interaction in Healthcare-New Opportunities for Old Challenges
July 27, 2015
Dr. Hadas Kress-Gazit, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
High-level Verifiable Robotics
Fall semester, 2014-2015
November 24, 2014
Guillaume Doisy, Industrial Engineering & Management, BGU
Advanced interfaces and interface design for learning robots
December 29, 2014
Dr. Guy Hoffman, IDC
Human-Robot Teamwork: Fluency and Embodiment in AL
January 19, 2015
Prof. Vladimir Lumelsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Human-Robot Interaction and Whole-Body Robot Sensing
The 10th Computational Motor Control Conference will host the ABC Robotics Annual Conference
18-20 June, 2014
Spring semester, 2013-2014
March 31, 2014
Prof. Opher Donchin, Department of Biomedical Engineering , BGU
The cerebellum and hierarchical motor control
April 28, 2014
Dr. David Zarrouk, Department of Mechanical Engineering
May 26, 2014
Dr. Lior Shmuelof, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
The puzzle of motor learning: bridging the laboratory - real world divide
