11 October 2024, University of California, Berkeley, International House.

Bay Area Robotics Symposium

Photo credit: Ruiqi Zhang  

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About

The 2024 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: 

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

Sponsors:

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If you are interested in sponsoring BARS 2024, please contact the local organizer, Mark Mueller.

Venue

The event will be held on the campus of UC Berkeley at International House, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA.

Details about transit, directions and parking can be found here.

Schedule

The event schedule is as below.

08:30 Registration opens
08:50-09:00 Welcome
09:00-10:00 Faculty talks #1
10:00-10:45 Industry & student spotlight talks #1
10:45-11:15 Coffee break and student posters #1
11:15-12:00 Faculty talks #2
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:30 Keynote
13:30-14:15 Faculty talks #3
14:15-15:00 Industry & student spotlight talks #2
15:00-15:30 Coffee break and student posters #2
15:30-16:30 Faculty talks #4

Keynote speaker: Terry Fong

The list of speakers for each talk session is:

Faculty talks #1 (09:00 -- 10:00): Mark Mueller, Grace Gao, Koushil Sreenath, Renee Zhao, Sergey Levine, Monroe Kennedy, Hannah Stuart, Jeannette Bohg

Faculty talks #2 (11:15 -- 12:00): Ken Goldberg, Karen Liu, Claire Tomlin, Chelsea Finn, Ricardo Sanfelice, Dorsa Sadigh

Faculty talks #3 (13:30 -- 14:15): Shuran Song, Trevor Darrell, Dejan Milutinovic, Zhaodan Kong, Mac Schwager, Roberto Horowitz

Faculty talks #4 (15:30 -- 16:30): Daniel Fremont, Sanjit Seshia, Mark Cutkosky, Steve McGuire, Somil Bansal, Negar Mehr, Alexandre Bayen, Maria Sakovsky, Tae Myung Huh

Industry & student spotlight talks #1 (10:00-10:45): Google, Matic, Johnson&Johnson, Jacobi, Intuitive, followed by student talks

Industry & student spotlight talks #2 (14:15-15:00): Waymo, Autodesk, Skydio, Symbotic, Stanford Robotics, Nimble, followed by student talks

Code of conduct

We expect all attendees (whether they are affiliated with UC Berkeley 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: 

Mark Mueller, mwm@berkeley.edu

Negar Mehr, negar@berkeley.edu

Grace Gao, gracegao@stanford.edu

Carlo Bosio, c.bosio@berkeley.edu (website and sponsors)

Ruiqi Zhang, richzhang@berkeley.edu (faculty and student talks schedule)

Jean-Baptiste Bouvier, bouvier3@berkeley.edu (student talks schedule)