Special Events

Please join us for some fun, food, beverages and conversation! All RI faculty, staff, students and visitors are invited to the Robotics Institute Winter Party! We apologize but due to space limitations in the Atrium we regretfully cannot include family or other non-RI guests.

April 12 1:00 - 4:00 pm: PUBLIC SPACE ROBOTS Open to the public TANK the roboceptionist Newell-Simon Hall 3rd floor entry area Meet Marion (Tank) LeFleur, Newell-Simon’s Roboceptionist. He’ll be glad to see you! The goal of the project is to produce a robot helpmate that is useful, exhibits social competence, and remains compelling to [...]

Join RISO at the Ice Cream Social robolounge @5-7 Wednesday September 4th Free Entry

All Robotics Institute Faculty. Staff, Students, and Visitors are invited to attend this event. Please join us for food, beverages, and casual conversation with colleagues. A calendar invite including details will be sent closer to the event.

Title: Learning World Simulators from Data Abstract: Modern foundational models have achieved superhuman performance in many logic and mathematical  reasoning tasks by learning to think step by step.  However, their ability to understand videos, and, consequently, control embodied agents, lags behind. They often make mistakes in recognizing simple activities, and often hallucinate when  generating videos. This [...]

12:00 - 4:00 pm: PUBLIC SPACE ROBOTS
 Open to the public TANK the roboceptionist Newell-Simon Hall 3rd floor entry area
Meet Marion (Tank) LeFleur, Newell-Simon’s Roboceptionist. He’ll be glad to see you! The goal of the project is to produce a robot helpmate that is useful, exhibits social competence, and remains compelling to interact with for [...]