14 November 2025, Stanford University, California.

Bay Area Robotics Symposium

Photo credit: Mark Leschinsky  

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About

The 2025 Bay Area Robotics Symposium aims to bring together roboticists from the Bay Area. The program will consist of a mix of faculty, student and industry presentations. For more details, see the event schedule.

Faculty Organizers: 

Grace Gao (Stanford), Negar Mehr (UC Berkeley), and Mark Mueller (UC Berkeley)

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Venue

The event will be held on the campus of Stanford University at the David and Joan Traitel Building of the Hoover Institution.

Available parking around the venue is shown below: the red "S" marker is the venue, and the yellow "P" square markers show nearby visitor parking garages. More details on visitor parking found here.

Stanford parking map

The Open House after the main programming will be held at the Stanford Robotics Center (SRC) in the basement of the David Packard Electrical Engineering Building.

Schedule

The event schedule is as below.

08:30-09:00 Breakfast
09:00-09:15 Welcome
09:15-10:00 Nimble Faculty Talks Session
10:00-10:30 Industry & Student Spotlight Talks #1
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break & Student Posters #1
11:00-11:45 Faculty Talks Session #2
11:45-12:15 Keynote #1: Gary Bradski
12:15-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Keynote #2: Judith Fan
14:00-14:45 Faculty Talks Session #3
14:45-15:15 Industry & Student Spotlight Talks #2
15:15-15:45 Coffee Break & Student Posters #2
15:45-16:30 Faculty Talks Session #4
16:30-17:30 Open House at the Stanford Robotics Center (SRC)

Keynote Speakers: Gary Bradski & Judith Fan

The list of speakers for each talk session is:

Nimble Faculty Talks (09:15-10:00): Mark Mueller, Renee Zhao, Christina Harvey, Sergey Levine, Natalie Larson, Cynthia Sung, Steve McGuire, Shuran Song

Faculty Talks #2 (11:00-11:45): Grace Gao, Raja Sengupta, Chelsea Finn, Ricardo Sanfelice, Koushil Sreenath, Somil Bansal, Tae Myung Huh, Mac Schwager

Faculty Talks #3 (14:00-14:45): Jiajun Wu, Ken Goldberg, Mark Cutkosky, Monroe Kennedy, Trevor Darrell, Sanjit Seshia, Murat Arcak, Javier Gonzalez-Rocha

Faculty Talks #4 (15:45-16:30): Negar Mehr, Karen Liu, Zhaodan Kong, Marco Pavone, Hannah Suart, Dejan Milutinovic, Allison Okamura

Industry & Student Spotlight Talks #1 (10:00-10:30): Nimble, Waymo, Wayve, TetherIA, Toyota Research Institute; followed by student talks

Industry & Student spotlight Talks #2 (14:45-15:15): Symbotic, Autodesk, Johnson & Johnson, Google Deepmind, Human Capital, Stanford Robotics Center; followed by student talks

Code of conduct

We expect all attendees (whether they are affiliated with Stanford University or not) to adhere to the University's code of conduct. Any concerns about participant conduct may be reported directly to the organizers, or staff at the welcome desk. 

Contact

Symposium organizers: 

Grace Gao, gracegao@stanford.edu

Negar Mehr, negar@berkeley.edu

Mark Mueller, mwm@berkeley.edu

Asta Wu, astawu@stanford.edu