Robot Agentic Programming: Back into the Future
What happens when agentic programming moves from software into robots?
Prof. David Hsu will explore Robot Agentic Programming (RAP), and how the rise of coding agents could reshape the way robot systems are designed, programmed, and deployed in the physical world.
Tracing robotics from the model-driven classical era to today's data-driven deep-learning approaches, he'll argue that the next step may bring these ideas together: combining model-based planning and data-driven learning to develop more generalisable robot capabilities for the open world.
He'll also unpack the key ingredients needed to make this possible, including expressive robot programming interfaces, structured program representations, and interactive environments for program execution and verification, and how robot foundation models could help close the loop from program specification to real-world deployment.
More About the Speaker
David Hsu is a Provost's Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Director of Smart Systems Institute. He received BSc in computer science & mathematics from The University of British Columbia and PhD in computer science from Stanford University. At NUS, he co-founded NUS Advanced Robotics Center in 2013. He founded the NUS AI Laboratory (NUSAIL) in 2019 and served as the founding director. He held visiting positions in MIT Aeronautics & Astronautics Department and CMU Robotics Institute. He is an IEEE Fellow.
His research interests span robotics, AI, and computational structural biology. In recent years, he has been working on robot planning and learning under uncertainty and human-robot collaboration. His work won several international awards, including, most recently, Test of Time Award at Robotics: Science & Systems (RSS) in 2021 and JCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize in 2022. More information on his research is available on the Adaptive Computing Laboratory (AdaComp) web site.
He has chaired or co-chaired several major international robotics conferences, including WAFR 2004 and 2010, RSS 2015, ICRA 2016, and CoRL 2021. He also served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Robotics, International Journal of Robotics Research, and Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
More About the Series
Singapore Embodied AI Colloquium (SEAIC) is a focused technical research series built around researcher-driven discussions and sharing on frontier topics in embodied AI, robot learning, and physical AI.
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