Detailed Presentation Descriptions
Full Schedule Saturday July 31st
Full Schedule Sunday August 1st
All times are recorded in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), UTC-5
Saturday, 31st of July
Session 1: Simulation
10:00 – 11:00 Brian Gerkey (Open Robotics) – Open Robotics, Gazebo, Ignition
11:00 – 11:15 Ian Dewancker (SBX) – Teaching robots how to see using synthetic data
11:15 – 11:30 Mirza (BabaCAD) – Simulation and control software
11:30 – 11:45 Evan McMahon (Bottango) – Animating robots
11:45 – 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 – 12:30 Darko Lukic (CyberBotics) – SLAM and navigation with Turtlebot3, ROS2, and Webots
12:30 – 12:45 Benjamin Gibbs (Ready Robotics) – Forge/OS 5: An Operating System for Industrial Automation
12:45 – 13:00 Tuur Benoit (Studio Technix) – Improving robotics with multi-domain simulation
1 hour Break
Session 2: Mobile Robots
14:00 – 14:45 Mark Emerton (UKRI) – Robots for a Safer World: UK robotics for safer inspections, maintenance and repairs
14:45 – 14:55 Beshr Eldebuch – A Fully Autonomous Indoor Mobile Robot Using Visual SLAM
14:55 – 15:05 Jason Luk – Indoor self driving robot
15:05 – 15:35 Sabine Haurt (Bristol Robotics Laboratory) – Swarms for People
15:35 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:00 Calvin Kielas-Jensen – BeBot: Bernstein Polynomial Toolkit for Optimal Trajectory Generation
16:00 – 16:15 Human Mode
16:15 – 16:25 Ammaar Solkar – Last Mile Delivery Robot for Residential Buildings
16:25 – 16.40 Miro Voellmy (European Space agency – Planetary Robotics Lab) – ExoMy
Sunday, 1st of August
Session 1: Manipulation
10:00 – 11:00 Rich Walker (Shadow Robot Company) – From the general to the specific: why we’re building “Tactile Telerobots” and what the “sense of touch” means for robots
11:00 – 11:15 John Till – Continuum Robotics – A fascinating use of mathematical modeling
11:15 – 11:30 Dan Royer – Makelangelo art robot
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:00 Thomas – Mimico: The Biomimicking Robot
12:00 – 12:15 CORO: Collaborative Robot Avatar
12:15 – 12:30 Joshua Nye – Using simple circuits to build powered exoskeletons, and giant robots
12:30 – 12:45 Daniel O’Mara – Robotics CoLab: Building Robots to Learn Robotics
1 hour 15 minutes Break
Session 2: Legged Robots
14:00 – 15:00 Shamel Fahmi (IIT) – Overview of the HyQ robots, and how to make them terrain-aware.
15:00 – 15:15 Piotrek Wasilewski – Wolfie quadruped
15:15 – 15:30 Haider – Robotallic: A micro robot using smart materials
15:30 – 15.45 Kevin Chow – Converting a toy hexbug into an autonomous robot
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 16:30 Robin Fröjd – K3LSO Quadruped
16:30 – 16:45 Gary Lvov – Sparky the Quadruped: Using ROS/Gazebo to iterate faster
16:45 – 17:00 Tze Hank Chia – Damage Recovery for Hexapod Robots
17:00 – 17:15 Jeff Underly – Quadruped with 3D Printed Recirculating Ball Screws
All times are recorded in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), UTC-5
| Saturday | Saturday | Saturday | Saturday | Saturday |
| Time (EDT) | Talk Title | Theme | Speaker/ Participant | Affiliation |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Open Robotics, Gazebo, Ignition | Simulation | Brian Gerkey | Open Robotics |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Teaching robots how to see using synthetic data | Simulation | Ian Dewancker | SBX |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Simulation and control software | Simulation | Mirza | BabaCAD |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | Animating robots | Simulation | Evan McMahon | Bottango |
| 15 minutes | Coffee Break | |||
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Slam navigation with Turtlebot3, ROS2, and Webots | Simulation | Darko Lukic | CyberBotics |
| 12:30 – 12:45 | Forge/OS 5: An Operating System for Industrial Automation | Simulation | Benjamin Gibbs | Ready Robotics |
| 12:45 – 13:00 | Improving robotics with multi-domain simulation | Simulation | Tuur Benoit | Studio Technix |
| 1 hour | Break | |||
| 14:00 – 14:45 | Robots for a Safer World: UK robotics for safer inspections, maintenance and repairs | Mobile Robots | Mark Emerton | United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) |
| 14:45 – 14:55 | A Fully Autonomous Indoor Mobile Robot Using Visual SLAM | Mobile Robots | Beshr Eldebuch | |
| 14:55 – 15:05 | Indoor self driving robot | Mobile Robots | Jason Luk | |
| 15:05 – 15:35 | Swarms for People | Mobile Robots | Sabine Haurt | Bristol Robotics Laboratory |
| 10 minutes | Coffee Break | |||
| 15:45 – 16:00 | BeBot: Bernstein Polynomial Toolkit for Optimal Trajectory Generation | Mobile Robots | Calvin Kielas-Jensen | |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Human Mode | Mobile Robots | – | |
| 16:15 – 16:25 | Last Mile Delivery Robot for Residential Buildings | Mobile Robots | Ammaar Solkar | |
| 16:25 – 16.40 | ExoMy | Mobile Robots | Miro Voellmy | European Space agency – Planetary Robotics Lab |
| Sunday | Sunday | Sunday | Sunday | Sunday |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | From the general to the specific – why we’re building “Tactile Telerobots” and what the “sense of touch” means for robots | Manipulation | Rich Walker | Shadow Robot Company |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Continuum Robotics – A fascinating use of mathematical modeling | Manipulation | John Till | |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Makelangelo art robot | Manipulation | Dan Royer | |
| 15 minutes | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Mimico – The Biomimicking Robot | Manipulation | Thomas | |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | CORO – Collaborative Robot Avatar | Manipulation | – | |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Using simple circuits to build powered exoskeletons, and giant robots | Manipulation | Joshua Nye | |
| 12:30 – 12:45 | Robotics CoLab – Building Robots to Learn Robotics | Manipulation | Daniel O’Mara | |
| 1 hour 15 minutes | Break | |||
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Research of the Dynamic Legged Systems lab of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) | Legged Robots | Dr Shamel Fahmi | IIT |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Wolfie quadruped | Legged Robots | Piotrek Wasilewski | |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Robotallic: A micro robot using smart materials | Legged Robots | Mr.Haider | |
| 15:30 – 15.45 | Converting a toy hexbug into an autonomous robot | Legged Robots | Kevin Chow | |
| 15 minutes | Coffee break | |||
| 16:00 – 16:30 | K3lso Quadruped | Legged Robots | Robin Fröjd | |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | Sparky the Quadruped: Using ROS/Gazebo to iterate faster | Legged Robots | Gary Lvov | |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Damage Recovery for Hexapod Robots | Legged Robots | Tze Hank Chia | |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Quadruped with 3D Printed Recirculating Ball Screws | Legged Robots | Jeff Underly |
