Second Seminar in Virtual Seminar Series Scheduled

We have our second seminar for the TC seminar series on Friday (1/13) at 9:30AM EST. We’ll mix up the format and have two talks this time with joint Q&A. Please find the flyer with all the details at this link. Speaker 1: Carlos Mastalli Title: Building athletic intelligence in legged robots: a top-down approach Speaker 2: Majid Khadiv Title: Optimal Control and Learning for Agile Locomotion Date: Friday, January 13th Time: 9:30 – 10:30AM EST (GMT -5:00) Link: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/91247893326?pwd=L2JWU21aQzc4cU1ZQklEb0Qr WGQvdz09 More details on upcoming seminars (and video links for past ones) can be found here: https://www.ieee-ras.org/model-based-optimization-for-robotics/activities/current-tc-events

2022 TC Best Paper Award

We are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the IEEE-RAS Technical Committee on Model-Based Optimization for Robotics 2022 Best Paper Award. Eligible papers for this year’s award will have appeared at a conference or in a journal in 2022 (online or in print). We encourage TC members and community members tonominate their favorite papers of the past year (including their own!). Nominations Due: March 15th, 2023 [self-nominations encouraged]Nomination Form: https://forms.gle/KoXu3a6XbLvHawBr6 Full policies and procedures for the best paper award can be found here.