Speeding up Flying Machines - Tuesday, 15th October, 17:00 – 18:30

Prof. Davide Scaramuzza

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Drone Racing: from a Game to Real World Impact

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Prof. Guido De Croon

TU Delft, Netherlands

Neuromorphic AI for bio-inspired, agile flight

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Prof. Giuseppe Loianno

Professor, New York University, USA

Enhancing Aerial Autonomy through Agility and Collaboration

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Prof. Mirko Kovac

Professor, Epfl, Empa, Imperial College London, Switzerland

Drones for Environmental Health

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Prof. Naira Hovakimyan

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA

Safe Learning in Autonomous Systems

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Moderator:

Prof. Yahya Zweiri

Professor, Director, Aerospace Research and Innovation

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Biorobotics - Wednesday, 16th October, 14:00 – 15:30

Prof. Auke Ijspeert

Professor, Head of the EPFL Biorobotics Laboratory, Epfl, Switzerland

Bio Robotics, Computational neuroscience

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Dr. Barbara Mazzolai

Principal Investigator, Fondazione Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologia, Italy

Bioinspired Soft Robotics

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Prof. Kaspar Althoefer

Professor of Robotics Engineering, Head of Centre for Advanced Robotics at Queen Mary (ARQ), Programme Director BEng/MEng Robotics Engineering, UK

Translating Nature: Bio-inspired solutions for robotic surgery

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Dr. Justin Werfel

Senior Research Fellow, Harvard University, United States

Building on Nature's Collective Intelligence

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Moderator:

Prof. Helge Wurdemann

Professor of Robotics, University College London, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, UK

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AI & Robotics - Thursday, 17th October, 14:00 – 15:30

Prof. Barbara Caputo

Directress Ai Hub, Politecnico Di Torino, Italy

Frugal AI

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Prof. Merouane Debbah

Professor, Director of the KU 6G center, Khalifa University, UAE

TelecomGPT

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Prof. Concepción Alicia Monje

Full Professor, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

Soft robot control

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Dr. Jianwei Zhang

Institute Director And Professor, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Crossmodal Learning

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Prof. Eric Xing

President and University Professor, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), UAE

On complex reasoning, agency, and virtual life via next generation foundation models beyond lingual and visual intelligence -- how a young university helps lead a young country in the premier league of global AI

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Dr.He Wang

Assistant Professor of Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies, Peking University, China

Towards Generalist Robots: Embodied Large Model System Empowered by Synthetic Data

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Moderator:

Prof. Yukie Nagai

Project Professor, The University of Tokyo, Japan

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Robotic Competitions - Friday, October 18th, 14:00 - 15:30

Prof. Pedro Lima

Full Professor, Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisbon, Portugal

Robot Competitions in Europe: European Robotics League and EuROBIN Coopetitions

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Dr. Timothy Chung

General Manager, Autonomy and Robotics, Microsoft, United States

Americas: DARPA Challenges

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Prof. Ubbo Visser

President of the RoboCup Federation
Assoc. Professor of Computer Science University of Miami, FL, USA

RoboCup competitions - Promoting and driving robotics and AI research

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Prof. Thomas McCarthy

Executive Director ASPIRE, UAE

Grand Challenges as a Mechanism to Hasten Translation from Lab to Market

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Moderator:

Prof. lakmal seneviratne

Professor Director, Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering, Khalifa University, UAE

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