INSPIRE - Radiance Fields in Robotics

​LOCATION: HG E33.3

​The ETH Robotics Club is pleased to invite you to its weekly INSPIRE Talk, featuring Maximum Wilder-Smith, PhD Student at the Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zürich.

​Radiance Fields in Robotics: From Scene Understanding to Teleoperation

Recently, Radiance Fields such as 3D Gaussian Splats have emerged as an expressive representation for complex physical environments. This talk will discuss novel research on applying radiance fields in robotics, where they can be leveraged for semantic scene understanding, navigation and teleoperation. Is will cover technical foundations and practical implementation, driving the exciting frontier at the intersection between perception and robotic interaction.

About the Speaker

Maximum Wilder-Smith is a PhD student at the Robotics Systems Lab at ETH, where he works at the intersection of computer vision, 3D modelling and robotics.
His work focuses on novel representation like Radiance fields to enhance scene understanding and robotic operation in unstructured, real-world scenarios.

​​About the INSPIRE Talks

​​The INSPIRE series is an integral part of the ETH Robotics Club’s weekly Robotics Nights. Each week, experts from robotics and related disciplines deliver talks that highlight big-picture perspectives and innovative ideas. The series is designed to spark curiosity and broaden horizons, while remaining accessible and engaging even after a full day of academic work.