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Robotics in a Human-Centered World: Innovations and Implications

Status
Past
Date
Tuesday, April 01, 2025 8:30 AM - 6:30 PM PST/PDT
Location
David and Joan Traitel Building of Hoover Institution | 435 Lasuen Mall Stanford, CA 94305
Topics
Robotics
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This conference is dedicated to exploring the latest advances, challenges, and societal implications of robotic technology at the intersection of artificial intelligence. The conference will foster a deeper understanding of how researchers, engineers, social scientists and policymakers can work together to navigate the evolving landscape of robotics. This year, HAI is also working with the Stanford Robotics Center to bring interactive robot demonstrations.

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM PST

Registration & Breakfast

Check-in, networking, and refreshments

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM PST

Opening Remarks

Welcome and introduction to the conference theme.

9:15 AM - 9:50 AM PST

Keynote Address #1

Robotics: The Push and Pull of Ideas and Applications. The constant interplay of excitement, delusion, overreach, surprise, and success.

9:50 AM - 10:30 AM PST

Highlight Sessions

12-minute talks

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM PST

Break

10:45 AM - 11:45 AM PST

Panel: Pushing the Frontiers of Robotics AI

11:45-12:00 PST

Stanford Robotics Center: Recent Advances and Future Directions

12:00-1:30pm PST

Lunch & Demonstrations

1:30 PM - 2:05 PM PST

Keynote Address #2

Robots Among Us: Shaping Human-Centered Robotics for a Shared Future of Education, Work, and Care

2:05 PM - 3:10 PM PST

Panel: From Research to Real-World Impact

3:10 PM - 3:25 PM PST

Break

3:25 PM - 4:10 PM PST

Highlight Sessions

12-minute talks

4:10 PM - 5:10 PM PST

Panel: Societal Impacts of Robots in a Human-Centered World

5:10 PM - 5:20 PM PST

Closing Remarks

5:15 PM - 6:30 PM

Evening Reception

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Event Contact
Annie Benisch
abenisch@stanford.edu
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Welcome Remarks
James Landay
Denning Co-Director, Stanford HAI | Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Event Chairs
Allison Okamura
Richard W. Weiland Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University | Stanford HAI Affiliated Faculty
Dorsa Sadigh
Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University | Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI
Karen Liu
Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University | Stanford HAI Affiliated Faculty
Speaker
Rodney Brooks
Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus), MIT
Speakers
Jeannette Bohg
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Karol Hausman
Co-Founder and CEO of Physical Intelligence (Pi)
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Fei-Fei Li
Denning Co-Director, Stanford HAI | Sequoia Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Speakers
Chelsea Finn
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; Co-Founder, Physical Intelligence
Wendy Ju
Associate Professor, Information Science and Design Technology, Cornell Tech
Dhruv Shah
Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Moderated by
Karen Liu
Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University | Stanford HAI Affiliated Faculty
Speakers
Oussama Khatib
Weichai Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Speaker
Maja Mataric
Chan Soon-Shiong Chair and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics, University of Southern California
Panelists
Pieter Abbeel
Professor, Jim Gray Chair of Engineering, UC Berkeley; Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab; Co-Director of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) lab; Co-Founder, President, and Chief Scientist Covariant
Charlie Kemp
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Hello Robot
Andrea Thomaz
CEO and Co-Founder of Diligent Robotics and a renowned social robotics expert
Moderated by
Steve Cousins
Executive Director, Stanford Robotics Center
Speakers
Dieter Fox
Senior Director of Robotics Research, NVIDIA; Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Lydia Kavraki
Kenneth and Audrey Kennedy Professor of Computing; Professor of Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Bioengineering, Rice University; Director, Ken Kennedy Institute
Monroe Kennedy
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University | Stanford HAI Affiliated Faculty
Panelists
Steven Hartley Collins
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Steffi Paepcke
Steffi Paepcke
Senior Manager, Robotics User Experience (UX) at Toyota Research Institute
Londa Schiebinger
John L. Hinds Professor of the History of Science, Stanford University
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Amy Zegart
Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution | Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies | Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI | Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science, Stanford
Moderated by
Allison Okamura
Richard W. Weiland Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University | Stanford HAI Affiliated Faculty
Speakers
Allison Okamura
Richard W. Weiland Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University | Stanford HAI Affiliated Faculty
Dorsa Sadigh
Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University | Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI
Karen Liu
Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University | Stanford HAI Affiliated Faculty