Past Speakers
Speakers in past AIR conferences
Past Keynote Speakers
Prof. Dinesh Manocha (AIR 2023)
Topic: Robot Navigation in Complex Indoor and Outdoor Environments
Affiliation: Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, US
Sangeet Kumar (AIR 2023)
Topic: Robotics: Challenges in Industrial Applications
Affiliation: Co-Founder and CEO ADDVERB TECHNOLOGIES
Prof. Naresh Chandra Murmu (AIR 2023)
Topic: On Going Research Activities at CMERI, Durgapur
Affiliation: Director, CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur, West Bengal, India
Prof. Prathyush P. Menon (AIR 2021)
Topic: Autonomous Oceanographic Sampling
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Engineering, University of Exeter, UK
Prof. Taewon Seo (AIR 2019)
Topic: Underwater Robotic Platform for Hovering and Operations
Affiliation: Hanyang University, South Korea
Prof. Davide Scaramuzza (AIR 2019)
Topic: Autonomous, Agile, Vision-controlled Drones: from Frame-based to Event-based Vision
Affiliation: University of Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Nobuto Matsuhira (AIR 2019)
Topic: Community Service Robot
Affiliation: Shibaura Institute of Tech., Japan
Prof. Peter Corke (AIR 2017)
Topic: Robots for society: why we need robots
Affiliation: Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Prof. Nancy Amato (AIR 2017)
Topic: Sampling-Based Motion Planning: From Intelligent CAD to Crowd Simulation to Protein Folding
Affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA
Prof. Burkhard Corves (AIR 2017)
Topic: Recent Robotic Research Activities at IGM, RWTH Aachen University
Affiliation: RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Past Plenary Talks
Prof. Pietro Valdastri (AIR 2023)
Chair in Robotics and Autonomous Systems IEEE Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Prof. Gregory Chirikjian (AIR 2023)
Topic: Robot Imagination: Affordance-Based Reasoning about Unknown Objects
Affiliation: Head of Department, Mechanical Engineering, NSU National University of Singapore, Engineering Drive 1, Singapore
Prof. Gursel Alici (AIR 2023)
ACES: Soft Robotics for Prosthetic Devices University of Oxford, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Prof. Seul Jung (AIR 2021)
Topic: Balancing mechanism and control in research and life
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Mechatronics, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea
Prof. Paolo Fiorini (AIR 2021)
Topic: Dreams in medical and surgical robotics: intelligence and affordability
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Prof. Minoru Asada (AIR 2021)
Topic: Autonomy in humans and machines: Robot sense of agency: self, pain, and ethics
Affiliation: Professor, Symbiotic Intelligent Systems Research Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Prof. Eduardo Nebot (AIR 2019)
Topic: Autonomous Systems in industrial application and Urban environments
Affiliation: Director, Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney, Australia
Prof. Blake Hannaford (AIR 2019)
Topic: Model Driven Medical Robot & Procedure Design
Affiliation: Professor and Director, Biorobotics Laboratory, University of Washington, USA
Prof. Jan Peters (AIR 2019)
Topic: Motor Skill Learning
Affiliation: Professor, Intelligent Autonomous Systems, University of Darmstadt, Germany