2018 Robotics Institute National Robotics Week Celebration

The Robotics Institute will celebrate the ninth annual National Robotics Week on April 19, & 20 with lectures, project demonstrations, the annual Mobot (mobile robot) races, and a reception for RI affiliated people.

April 19
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.: Teruko Yata Memorial Lecture in Robotics
Location: Rashid Auditorium, 4401 Gates Hillman Center

Pre-registration is required.

Speaker: RUZENA BAJCSY, NEC Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley

Ruzena Bajcsy (LF’08) received the Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, in 1957 and 1967, respectively, and the Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1972. She is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director Emeritus of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Science (CITRIS). Prior to joining Berkeley, she headed the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Bajcsy is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine as well as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. In 2001, she received the ACM/Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Allen Newell Award, and was named as one of the 50 most important women in science in the November 2002 issue of Discover Magazine. She is the recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Computer and Cognitive Sciences (2009) and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Award (2013) for her contributions in the field of robotics and automation.

A School of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture

Box lunches will be available for those who register by April 17.


April 20

12:00 - 4:00 pm: ROBOTICS INSTITUTE LAB TOURS

Pre-registration is required.

12:00 - 4:00 pm: 
ROBOTICS INSTITUTE ROBOT DEMONSTRATIONS
Location: Newell-Simon Hall Perlis Atrium, 3rd floor
Open to the public.

12:00 - 2:00 pm: 
24TH ANNUAL MOBOT RACE
Location: Walkway outside of Wean Hall
Open to the public.

3:00 - 4:00 pm: 
THE 15TH GATE: MOBOT AWARD CEREMONY and WRAP-UP
Location: Rashid Auditorium – Gates & Hillman 4401
Open to the public.

4:00 - 5:30 pm: 
ROBOT RECEPTION
Location: Newell-Simon Hall Perlis Atrium, 3rd floor
Pre-registration is required.