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Robotics students and faculty gather for an event in the Ford Motor Company Robotics Building.

Events

Michigan Robotics hosts regular events that bring together students, faculty, and industry leaders. These events provide opportunities for learning, networking, and exploring the latest developments in robotics research and applications.

Robotics Pathways and Careers Speaker Series

Join us for talks from distinguished roboticists sharing their career journeys and insights into the field. This series aims to highlight the many paths to robotics and what students can do with a robotics degree.

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Robotics Seminar Series

Explore cutting-edge robotics research through our regular seminar series featuring leading researchers and experts from academia and industry presenting their latest work and findings.

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Upcoming events

A virtual driving setup for human robot interaction testing

Situation Awareness and Trust Methods for Improving Human-Robot Team Performance

Robotics PhD Defense, Arsha Ali

RSVP requested. FRB 2300 and Zoom (passcode: mavric). Co-chairs: Dawn Tilbury and Lionel Robert Abstract: The field of human-robot interaction is dedicated to understanding how humans intera...
A user with a robotic exoskeleton on their shoulder, forearm, wrist and fingers grasps a cup with a computer logging data in the background.

Promoting Co-Adaptation in Human Interaction with Powered Upper Limb Exoskeletons

Robotics PhD Defense, Xiangyu Peng

Chair: Leia Stirling IOE 2717 and Zoom Powered robotic exoskeletons offer great promise in assisting elderly or disabled individuals with daily activities or augmenting healthy individuals in perf...
A diagram showing the safe autonomy stack necessary taking into account mission and safety requirements

Architectures for Safe Autonomy: Provable Guarantees Across Control, Planning, and Perception

PhD Defense, Devansh Agrawal

Chair: Dimitra Panagou Abstract This thesis addresses the design of safety-critical autonomous systems - systems that must always satisfy a set of safety constraints. The primary objective is to d...
Fall 25 Advising Super Session Event Flyer

Robotics Advising Super Session

Fall 2025

U-M undergraduate students majoring in Robotics or interested in enrolling in Robotics courses for Fall 2025 will be able to learn more about our courses, relevant resources, and more! The event prese...

Robotics Pathways and Career Speaker Series

Grant Gibson

The Robotics Pathways and Careers Speaker Series (RPCSS) invites professionals working in robotics to come talk with current undergraduates about their career path, how a background in robotics has im...

Robotics Pathways and Career Speaker Series

The Robotics Pathways and Careers Speaker Series (RPCSS) invites professionals working in robotics to come talk with current undergraduates about their career path, how a background in robotics has im...