Spring Semester 2024
May 27
Dr. Shirley Handelzalts, Department of Physical Therapy, BGU
Laboratory and real-world gait measurements in at-fall risk stroke survivors
June 24
Speaker 1: Ori Fartook, PhD student, Industrial Engineering & Management Dept, BGU
Emotional Support Drone (ESD): A Personal Companion for Support and Regulation
Speaker 2: Barak Ostraich, PhD student, Industrial Engineering & Management, BGU
July 29
Speaker 1: Hanna Kossowsky Lev, Phd student, Biomedical Engineering Dept, BGU
Errors in Long-Term Robotic Surgical Training
Speaker 2: Arseni Pertzovskiy, PhD student, Industrial Engineering & Management Dept, BGU
Optimization Challenges in Mobile Multi-Agent Systems
Fall Semester 2023/4
December 25
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
PhD students Viviane Herdel and Shikhar Kumar
Speaker 1: Viviane Herdel, PhD student, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management, BGU
Emotion Appropriateness in Human-Drone Interaction
Speaker 2: Shikhar Kumar, PhD student, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management, BGU
February 26
Dr. Danny Eizicovits, CTO & Head of Business e2 Young Engineers
Overcoming Mass Production Hurdles in the IoT Revolution, Real Lessons Learned
March 25
Speaker: Dr. Yoav Matia, Department of Mechanical Engineering, BGU
Putting Materials to Work: Functionalizing Matter in Service of Robotic Solutions
Spring Semester 2023
March 27
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
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
Prof. Hadas Erel, Head of Social HRI research miLAB - Media Innovation Lab, IDC Herzliya
Dark patterns in human-robot interaction
June 26
Dr. Asaf Degani, Technical Fellow at General Motors R&D
Ethical Considerations for Autonomous Vehicles: A Formal Approach
Fall Semester 2022/2023
October 31
Ittay Mannheim, PhD candidate, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Implications of Ageism on the Use and Design of Digital Technology for Older Person
November 28
Daniel Polyakov, PhD student, Dept of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Recruiting Neural Field Theory model for a data augmentation in BCI-controlled drone
December 26
Dr. Igal Bilik, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sensing for Autonomous Driving
January 30
Prof. Erez Karpas, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion
Situated Planning
February 27 - cancelled ❌
Prof. Firas Mawase, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion
Spring semester 2022
March 28
Time: 10:10-11:00
Will be given on Zoom
Thinking inside of the box – Exploring Research methods in HRI during a Global Pandemic
Shanee Honig, PhD students in the Department of Industrial Engineering & Management
Abstract
Between Fear and Trust: Factors Influencing Older Adults' Evaluation of Socially Assistive Robots
Oded Zafrani, PhD students in the Department of Industrial Engineering & ManagementAbstract
April 25
Seminar time: 10:10 - 11:00
Location: Alon Building 37, Room 202
Adversarial Robotics: From Teamwork to Swarms
Prof. Noa Agmon, Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University
Abstract
May 9
Speaker: Prof. Hod Lipson, Engineering & Data Science Columbia University, New York
Automating discovery: From cognitive robotics to particle physics
Seminar time: 10:10 - 11:00
Location: Alon Building 37, Room 202Abstract
May 11-12
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
Speaker: Prof. Susanne Boll, Department of Computing Science, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Humans, vehicles, and AI - tensions and opportunities
Seminar time: 10:10 - 11:00
Location: Alon Building 37, Room 202Abstract
May 30
Speaker: 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
Seminar time: 16:10 - 17:00
Location: ZoomAbstract
June 27
Speaker 1: Michal Rottem-Hovev, Yazamut 360, BGU
‘THE LAB’ Experience
Speaker 2: Shimon Regev, Ph.D. student, Mechanical Engineering , BGU
Optimal Solutions with Multi-objective Considerations in a Non-cooperative Multi-agent Environment
Seminar time: 10:10-11:00
Location: Alon Building 37, room 202Abstracts
Fall semester 2021/22
February 28, 2022
on zoom
The recording of the seminar will be available upon request to ABC researchers and students only
Social Robots in Education: Promoting 21st Century Skills
Dr. Goren Gordon, head of the Curiosity Lab in Tel-Aviv University
Abstract
on zoom
The recording of the seminar will be available upon request to ABC researchers and students only
Hyper Redundant articulated robot for NDT of closed complex structures
Shmulik Edelman, PhD student, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Human Preferences for Robot Eye Gaze in Human-to-Robot Handovers
Tair Sela, MSc. student, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management
December 27, 2021
Upcoming EU Calls
Guest Speaker: David Spivak, Coordinator for Research Funding Opportunities at the Research & Development Authority, BGU
📢 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, 2021
Development of novel robotic platforms for mechanical stress induction, and their effects on plant morphology, elements, and metabolism
Speaker: Dr. Polina Kurtser, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Mobile Robots and Olfocation (MRO) Lab
at the Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems, Örebro University, Sweden Abstract
ABC Robotics Scholars
The roads to walking stability
Yogev Koren, PhD student - Department of Physical Therapy
The effect of SARs’ visual qualities on users’ perceptions and attitude
Abstract
Spring semester 2021
February 22
Time: 16:10-17:00
Speaker: Dr. Aslan Miriyev, scientist at Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, based in Dübendorf, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland.
Title: Fusing Digital and Physical AI into Lifelike Robots
The recording of Dr. Aslan Miriyev's seminar will be available upon request to ABC researchers and students only.
Time: 16:10-17:00
Speaker: Amir Porat, PhD student at Tel Aviv University
Title: A General 3D Model for Growth Dynamics of Sensory-Growth Systems
The recording of Amir Porat's seminar will be available upon request to ABC researchers and students only.
Speaker: Prof. Inna Sharf, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University
Title: Path Planning Problems for Timber-Harvesting Machinery
The recording of Professor Inna Sharf's seminar will be available upon request to ABC researchers and students only.
Time: 10:15-11:00
Speaker: Prof. Maura Casadio, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Genoa, Italy
Title: Body-machine interfaces from rehabilitation to robot control
The recording of Professor Maura Casadio's seminar will be available upon request to ABC researchers and students only.
Time: 16:10-17:00
Speaker: Dr. Mitch Pryor, Research Scientist and Lecturer at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin
Title: Towards routine use of flexible, assistive robotics in hazardous environments
The recording of Dr. Mitch Pryor's seminar will be available upon request to ABC researchers and students only.
Fall semester 2020/21
26 OCT
and BGU Doctoral Candidate, Shikhar Kumar.
Title: The Effect of Dynamic Interaction on User: Evaluation of Politeness in HRI
and BGU Doctoral Candidate, Samuel Olatunji.
Title: Socially Assistive Robots in Eldercare – Interaction Design for varying Levels of Automation
30 NOV
Speaker: Dr. Reuth Mirsky
Department: Post Doc in the Computer Science Department of University of Texas at Austin
Using Human-inspired Signals in Social Navigationg
⏺ Seminar's Recording
28 DEC
Speaker: Dr. Avishai Sintov
Departmet: 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
⏺ Seminar's Recording
25 JAN
Speaker: Prof. Noah Cowan
Department : Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Locomotion in Mechanical and Biological Systems (LIMBS) Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University
Neuroscience in The Matrix: Closing the loop around the brain to understand how it controls the body
⏺ the recording of Prof. Cowan's seminar will be available upon request to ABC researchers and students only
