Robotics Seminar Event 1
Welcome to the Robotics & Embodied Intelligence Seminar!
Join us for an engaging session exploring how AI, robotics, and wireless innovation are converging to transform the physical world. This hybrid event will be held at 370 Jay Street and online mark your calendars and don’t miss this opportunity to connect with leading researchers shaping the future of intelligent machines. Whether you’re a student, professional, or enthusiast, this seminar offers a front-row seat to the breakthroughs redefining how robots sense, learn, and act.
About the Lecture
Control for Robot Learning
Robot learning systems rely on motion synthesis to enable efficient and flexible learning during continuous online deployment. Motion motivated by learning needs can be found throughout natural systems, yet there is surprisingly little known about synthesizing motion to support learning for robotic systems. Moreover, robotic systems will need to collect data autonomously for learning, for instance when isolated for long period of time or when encountering novel environmental features. Learning goals create a distinct set of control-oriented challenges, including how to choose measures as objectives, synthesize real-time control based on these objectives, impose physics-oriented constraints on learning, and produce analyses that certify performance and safety with limited knowledge. This talk will discuss learning tasks that robots encounter, abstractions that enable regulating information content of observations, and recent progress on algorithms for generating action plans that facilitate learning.
About the Speaker
Todd Murphey is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the McCormick School of Engineering and of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences in the Feinberg School of Medicine, both at Northwestern University. He is additionally the Director of Transformative Research in Northwestern University's Office of Research. He received his Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology in 2002. His laboratory is part of the Center for Robotics and Biosystems, and his research interests include robotics, control, human-machine interaction, and emergent behavior in dynamical systems. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER award, is a recipient of Northwestern University's Professorship of Teaching Excellence, was a member of the United States Department of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, served as a Senior Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2014-2018) and as Vice President for the Publication Activities Board in the Robotics and Automation Society (2022-2023), and is a recipient of the IEEE RAS Distinguished Service Award.
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Visitor Information
This event is open to NYU students, faculty, and staff.
📍 Location: NYU Tandon School of Engineering,
370 Jay Street 12 FL Room 1201, [NYU ID required ]
📍 Location: Zoom
Link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/91961657086
meeting ID: 919 6165 7086
About the Robotics & Embodied Intelligence Series
The Robotics & Embodied Intelligence Seminar Series highlights the interdisciplinary work happening across NYU Tandon’s robotics ecosystem — uniting AI, mechanical systems, mechatronics, and wireless technologies.
From bio-inspired locomotion and AI4CE Lab’s autonomous construction research to Machines in Motion’s dynamic control and Bio mechatronics Lab’s assistive robotics, each session offers a deep dive into the innovations reshaping how humans and machines interact.