ABC Robotics Initiative – Agricultural, Biological & Cognitive

Spring semester 2021

February 22
Time: 16:10-17:00

Speaker: Dr. Aslan Miriyev, scientist at Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, based in Dübendorf, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland.
Title: Fusing Digital and Physical AI into Lifelike Robots

The recording of Dr. Aslan Miriyev's seminar will be available upon request to ABC researchers and students only.

March 22
Time: 16:10-17:00

Speaker: Amir Porat, PhD student at Tel Aviv University
Title: A General 3D Model for Growth Dynamics of Sensory-Growth Systems

The recording of Amir Porat's seminar will be available upon request to ABC researchers and students only.

April 26

Time: 16:10-17:00

Speaker: Prof. Inna Sharf, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University
Title: Path Planning Problems for Timber-Harvesting Machinery

The recording of Professor Inna Sharf's seminar will be available upon request to ABC researchers and students only.

May 31
Time: 10:15-11:00

Speaker: Prof. Maura Casadio, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Genoa, Italy
Title: Body-machine interfaces from rehabilitation to robot control

The recording of Professor Maura Casadio's seminar will be available upon request to ABC researchers and students only.

June 28
Time: 16:10-17:00

Speaker: Dr. Mitch Pryor, Research Scientist and Lecturer at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin
Title: Towards routine use of flexible, assistive robotics in hazardous environments

The recording of Dr. Mitch Pryor's seminar will be available upon request to ABC researchers and students only.

Fall semester 2020/21

Date	Speaker	Department	Abstract
26.10.2020 10:10-11:00	1) Speaker: EU ITN SOCRATES Project Early Stage Researcher and BGU Doctoral Candidate, Shikhar Kumar. Title: The Effect of Dynamic Interaction on User: Evaluation of Politeness in HRI 2) Speaker: EU ITN SOCRATES Project Early Stage Researcher and BGU Doctoral Candidate, Samuel Olatunji. Title: Socially Assistive Robots in Eldercare – Interaction Design for varying Levels of Automation ⏺ Seminar's Recording
30.11.2020 16:10-17:00	Dr. Reuth Mirsky	Post Doc in the Computer Science Department of University of Texas at Austin	Using Human-inspired Signals in Social Navigationg ⏺ Seminar's Recording
28.12.2020 16:10-17:00	Dr. Avishai Sintov	Senior Lecturer and the head of the Robotics Lab in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University	Learning Models for Underactuated Robotic Hands ⏺ Seminar's Recording
25.1.2021 17:10-18:00	Prof. Noah Cowan	Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Locomotion in Mechanical and Biological Systems (LIMBS) Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University	Neuroscience in The Matrix: Closing the loop around the brain to understand how it controls the body ⏺ the recording of Prof. Cowan's seminar will be available upon request to ABC researchers and students only

Fall semester 2019/20

Date	Speaker	Department	Abstract
20.2.2020 bldg. 16 room 150 13:00-15:00	Prof. Ellen Bass	College of Computing & Informatics; College of Nursing and Health Professions - Drexel University	Special ABC Robotics and Industrial Engineering and Management Department Seminar on: An approach to function allocation: bridging the gap between task analysis and function allocation recommendations
27.1.2020	Prof. Oren Saltzman	Computer Science Department, Technion	Toward Asymptotically-Optimal Inspection Planning via Efficient Near-Optimal Graph Search
30.12.2019	Alap Kshirsagar PhD student	Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University	Human-Robot Object Handovers
	André Potenza PhD student	School of Science and Technology, Örebro University	Development of a Telepresence Robot for Research
	Rick van Essen PhD student	Biosystems Engineering, Wageningen University	Dynamic viewpoint selection for maturity detection of sweet peppers
25.11.2019	Prof. Itzik Melzer	Physical Therapy Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, BGU	Properties Balance Control Associated with Unexpected Loss of Balance: Age-related differences
28.10.2019	Prof. Yoram Halevi	Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion	Minimum Energy Control of Redundant Manipulators using Bi-level Optimization

Spring semester 2019

Date	Speaker	Department	Abstract
25.2.2019	Amit Svarzenberg	Open Innovation Manager at Samsung R&D Institute Israel	Samsung Research Open Innovation Technical Hurdles
24-25.3.2019	Karniel Computational Motor Control Workshop
	Due to the Karniel Computational Motor Control Workshop on March 24-25, the ABC Monthly Seminar for March will be on Wednesday March 27 in conjunction with the Biomedical department seminar Time: 14:00-15:00 Location: Building 51, room 015 See Details below:
27.3.2019	Prof. Allison Okamura	Department of Mechanical Engineering Stanford University	Let's be Flexible: Soft Haptics and Soft Robotics
29.4.2019	Prof. Simon D. Levy	Visiting Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, BGU	Innovative Drone Research: Bridging the Gap between Hardware and Simulation
27.5.2019	Dr. Jessica Cauchard	Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, BGU	Are You Autonomous? Towards Designing Natural Interactions Between People and Drones

Fall semester 2018/2019

Date	Speaker	Department	Abstract
29.10.2018	Dr. Raziel Riemer	Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, BGU	Biomechanical energy harvesting as a base for exoskeleton: theory, design, and results
26.11.2018 9:45	Ephrat Messing	Research & Development Authority, BGU	Opportunities in the Robotics Area of Horizon 2020 with an emphasis on the upcoming Horizon 2019 Calls
26.11.2018 10:20-11:00	Polina Kurtser, Post Doctorate student Boaz Arad, PhD student	Industrial Engineering & Management, BGU Computer Science, BGU	Sweeper: Sweet Pepper Harvesting Robot
31.12.2018	Dr. Tal Shafir	The Emili Sagol Creative Arts Therapies Research Center, University of Haifa	Emotion perception and expression through movement in human-robot interaction

Spring semester 2018

Date	Speaker	Department	Abstract
26.3.2018	Prof. Mindy Levin	McGill University School of Physical and Occupational Therapy	Motor abundance, compensation and adaptability in the stroke-damaged nervous syst
30.4.2018	Dr. Guillaume Doisy	Chief Robotics Officer, Wyca	Applying mobile robotics and human robot interaction research to the startup world: the WYCA experience and other examples
28.5.2018	Guy Cohen-Lazry	PhD student, Industrial Engineering & Management Department, BGU	A Window to Autonomous Vehicles from a Human-Robot Interaction Perspective
25.6.2018	Prof. Zvi Shiller	Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, Ariel University	On Optimal Trajectory Planning

Fall semester 2017/2018

Date	Speaker	Department	Abstract
30.10.2017	Dr. J. Michael Herrmann	Institute for Perception, Action and Behaviour, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Centre for Robotics	Critical Brains for Autonomous Robots
27.11.2017	Prof. Vladimir Gontar	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	From Discrete Chaotic Dynamics of Living and Thinking Systems to Artificial Brain, Consciousness and Creativity
25.12.2017	Nir Dgan Shir Kashi Yarden Sharon	Mechanical Engineering Information Systems Engineering Biomedical Engineering	(1) Wave-like propulsion robot over flexible surface (2) Smooth leader or sharp follower? Playing the mirror game with a robot (3) Quantitative Characterization of Open and Robot-Assisted Needle-Driving Using the One-Sixth Power Law Abstract of the talks
29.01.2018	Tal-Chen Rabinowitch	University of Washington	The clockworks of human-robot collaboration
26.2.2018	Dr. Hwee-Pink TAN	SMU-TCS iCity Lab, Singapore Management University (SMU)	Large-scale IoT Systems for Ageing-in-Place: Experiences and Lessons Learnt towards Sustainability

Spring semester, 2017

29.03.17
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Framework for Individualized Dynamical Modeling of Human Motion

24.04.17
Dr. Aleksandar Jevtić
Institute of Industrial Robotics and Informatics, Barcelona, Spain
Robot-Assisted Dressing

29.05.17
Dr. Oren Friefeld
Department of Computer Sciences, BGU
Bayesian Mixture Models: Variants, MCMC Inference, and Applications

19.06.17
Prof. Michael Goodrich
Department of Computer Science, Brigham Young University, Utah, USA
Human-Robot Interaction

03.07.17
Dr. Guy Rosman
Post-doctoral Researcher, MIT/CSAIL, Cambridge, MA, USA
Life-Long Adaptive Robotic Perception

Fall semester, 2016/2017

31.10.16
Roy Someshwar Department of Industrial Engineering & Management
Human-Robot Collaboration

28.11.16
Dr. Aharon Bar Hillel Department of Industrial Engineering & Management
Convolutional Table Ensembles – visual classification in the microsecond scale

26.12.16
Prof. Yakir Levin Department of Philosophy
The Classic Model of Human Cognition

30.01.17
Dr. Avinoam Borowsky Department of Industrial Engineering & Management
Human-machine Interaction in Driving Automation

Spring semester, 2016

29.02.2016

Dr. Gábor Kósa, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University
Bio-inspired micro systems, robots and sensing systems

04.04.2016

Ola Ringdahl, Dept. of Computing Science, Umea University, Sweden
A software framework for agricultural robotics using ROS

23.05.2016
Heather Lum, Heather Lum
Human-robot interaction in context: Individual differences in perception and interaction with anthropomorphic and non-anthropomorphic robots

06.06.2016

Jun Ueda, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Robotic Induction of Neuromodulation in Human Motor System

Zlotowski-ABC seminar:
20.01.2016 - Dr. Armin Biess
Nanoscale quantum magnetic and electric-field sensing of neurons using nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

08.06.2016 - Dr. Jason Friedman, Tel Aviv University
Modeling distributions of arm movements

Fall semester, 2015/2016

26.10.2015
Dr. Ilana Nisky Nisky, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, BGU
Studying Human-Robot Interaction in the Lab and in the Wild to Help Patients

30.11.2015
Prof. Gal Kaminka, Dept. of Computer Science, Bar Ilan University
No robot is an island, no team an archipelago

28.12.2015
Prof. Alon Wolf, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Technion
The Human Machine Merger: Are we headed for the MMATRIX?

25.01.2016
Prof. Amir Degani, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion
Optimal Orchard Architectures for Optimal Robot Manipulators

Spring semester, 2015

23.02.2015
Prof. Yitzhar Or, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion
Dynamics and control of (bio-) robotic locomotion: nonlinear, nonholonomic and hybrid mechanical systems

23.03.2015
Prof. Ehud Sharlin, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada
“Counting Electric Sheep” Human-Robot Interaction in a Nutshell

27.04.2015
Dr. Shelly Levy-Tzedek, Dept. of Physical Therapy, BGU
Sensorimotor learning with sensory substitution

25.05.2015
Dr. Oren Shriki, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, BGU
EEG-based brain computer interfaces

29.06.2015
Prof. Juan Wachs, School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
Embodied Interaction in Healthcare-New Opportunities for Old Challenges

27.07.2015
Dr. Hadas Kress-Gazit, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
High-level Verifiable Robotics

Fall semester, 2014-2015

24.11.2014

Guillaume Doisy, Industrial Eng. And Mngmt. BGU
Advanced interfaces and interface design for learning robots

29.12.2014

Dr. Guy Hoffman, IDC
Human-Robot Teamwork: Fluency and Embodiment in AL

19.1.2015

Prof. Vladimir Lumelsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Human-Robot Interaction and Whole-Body Robot Sensing

The 10th Computational Motor Control Conference will host the ABC Robotics Annual Conference
18-20 June, 2014 program | Website

Spring semester, 2013-2014

31.03.2014

Prof. Opher Donchin, Department of Biomedical Engineering , BGU
The cerebellum and hierarchical motor control

28.04.2014
Dr. David Zarrouk, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Miniature Crawling Robots

26.05.2014
Dr. Lior Shmuelof, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
The puzzle of motor learning: bridging the laboratory - real world divide

Past Events and Seminars

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