Texas Regional Robotics Symposium


April 18th, 2025

Southwest Research Institute
San Antonio, Texas

About

The Texas Regional Robotics Symposium (TEROS) aims to bring together Texas robotics researchers. TEROS is a one-day event with research talks, poster presentations, and social activities. The goal of TEROS is to share exciting ideas and build new connections in the robotics research community in Texas.

Registration

Attendance is free to Texas robotics researchers. Attendance will be limited to the first 90 registrants.

Click here to register!

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Participating Institutions

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Speakers

TEROS will be held as a one-day event with keynote talks, spotlight talks, poster presentations, industry booths, robotics lab tours, and social activities. A detailed schedule is included below.

Keynote Speakers

Speakers will be posted as they are confirmed.

Joydeep Biswas

Joydeep Biswas

UT-Austin

Rob Ambrose

Rob Ambrose

Professor

Texas A&M University

Shaun Edwards

Shaun Edwards

CTO & Co-Founder

Plus One Robotics

Vaibhav Unhelkar

Vaibhav Unhelkar

Assistant Professor

Rice University

Spotlight Speakers

Speakers will be posted as they are confirmed.

Alex Sowell

Alex Sowell

Avionics Engineer

NASA Johnson Space Center

Arthur Zhang

Arthur Zhang

PhD Student

UT-Austin

Cody Gonzalez

Cody Gonzalez

Assistant Professor

UTSA

Eddie Hilburn

Eddie Hilburn

PhD Student

Texas A&M University

Lillian Chin

Lillian Chin

Assistant Professor

UT-Austin

Manoranjan Majji

Manoranjan Majji

Professor

Texas A&M University

Shane King

Shane King

Postdoctoral Fellow

Rice University

Thai Duong

Thai Duong

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Rice University

Vinayak Krishnamurthy

Vinayak Krishnamurthy

Associate Professor

Texas A&M University

Weihang Guo

Weihang Guo

PhD Student

Rice University

Yildirim Hurmuzlu

Yildirim Hurmuzlu

University Distinguished Professor

SMU

Schedule

Speakers and topics are posted as they are confirmed
Final schedule subject to change

Time Schedule Location
08:00 Registration Desk Open and Posters SwRI Building 263
09:00 Welcome to Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®)
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    Welcome to Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®)
SwRI Building 263
09:05 Introduction of TEROS 2025
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SwRI Building 263
09:15 Keynote: Unknown Speaker SwRI Building 263
09:45 Keynote: Unknown Speaker SwRI Building 263
10:00 Panel: Research Opportunities in Robotics
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SwRI Building 263
10:30 Break for Networking and Posters SwRI Building 263
11:00 Keynote: Unknown Speaker SwRI Building 263
11:30 Spotlight Speakers 1
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    Material Matters: Designing Robot Bodies in Dialogue with Computation
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    Preserving Structures in Dynamics Learning and Control for Autonomous Robot Navigation
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    Multifunctional Lithium-ion Batteries, a Path to Self-Powered Robotics
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    Assistive devices for motor and sensory restoration: Addressing the need for bidirectional information flow between users and their devices
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    Part, Path, Plan: Partitive Geometry for Multi-Robot Cooperative Additive Manufacturing
SwRI Building 263
12:30 Break for Box Lunches SwRI Building 263
13:30 Keynote: Unknown Speaker SwRI Building 263
14:00 Keynote: Unknown Speaker SwRI Building 263
14:30 Break for Networking and Posters SwRI Building 263
15:15 Spotlight Speakers 2
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    Autonomous Space Robotic Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
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    Magnetically actuated millimeter-scale biped
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    CaStL: Constraints as Specifications through LLM Translation for Long-Horizon Task and Motion Planning
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    CREStE: Scalable Mapless Navigation with Internet Scale Priors and Counterfactual Guidance
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    Robotic Space Simulator: An Actively Controlled Dual-Spacecraft Microgravity Dynamics Simulator
SwRI Building 263
16:00 Closing Remarks SwRI Building 263
16:00 Networking, Posters, and Lab Tours SwRI Building 263

Venue Information

The symposium will be held at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, TX.

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Contact Us

For more information, contact Paul Evans (+1 210 522 2994) or Meera Towler (+1 210 522 6339).

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