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!

Sponsors

To be announced

Program

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.

Shaun Azimi

NASA

Joydeep Biswas

UT-Austin

Vaibhav Unhelkar

Assistant Professor

Rice University

Erik Nieves

Plus One Robotics

Rob Ambrose

Texas A&M

Spotlight Speakers

Speakers will be posted as they are confirmed.

Cody Gonzalez

Assistant Professor

UTSA

Shane King

Postdoctoral Fellow

Rice University

Thai Duong

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Rice University

Farshid Asadi

SMU

Weihang Guo

PhD Student

Rice University

Arthur Zhang

UT-Austin

Lillian Chin

Assistant Professor

UT-Austin

Posters and Industry Booths

Along with talks from distinguished speakers, the symposium will feature exciting posters and industry booths. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with the poster and booth presenters during networking sessions scheduled throughout the day.

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®)
Steve Dellenback, Vice President—R&D
SwRI Building 263
09:05
Introduction of TEROS 2025
Meera Towler and Paul Evans, SwRI
SwRI Building 263
09:15
Panel: Research Opportunities in Robotics

  • Christy Cardenas, Iris
SwRI Building 263
09:45
Keynote: Shaun Azimi, NASA
Building and Maintaining a Human Outpost on Mars with Dexterous Mobile Robots
SwRI Building 263
10:15
Break for Networking and Posters SwRI Building 263
10:45
Spotlight Talks: Researchers

  • Lillian Chin, UT-Austin
    Material Matters: Designing Robot Bodies in Dialogue with Computation
  • Thai Duong, Rice University
    Preserving Structures in Dynamics Learning and Control for Autonomous Robot Navigation
  • Cody Gonzales, UTSA
    Multifunctional Lithium-ion Batteries, a Path to Self-Powered Robotics
  • Shane King, Rice University
    Assistive devices for motor and sensory restoration: Addressing the need for bidirectional information flow between users and their devices
SwRI Building 263
11:15
Keynote: Joydeep Biswas, University of Texas at Austin
Robots Without Boundaries: Embracing the Unseen and Tackling Novel Tasks
SwRI Building 263
11:45
Break for Box Lunches SwRI Building 263
12:15
Keynote: Erik Nieves, Plus One Robotics SwRI Building 263
12:45
Keynote: Vaibhav Unhelkar, Rice University
Interactive AI Techniques for Training Human-Robot Teams
SwRI Building 263
13:45
Spotlight Talks: Students

  • Farshid Asadi, SMU
  • Weihang Guo, Rice University
    CaStL: Constraints as Specifications through LLM Translation for Long-Horizon Task and Motion Planning
  • Arthur Zhang, UT-Austin
SwRI Building 263
14:45
Break for Networking and Posters SwRI Building 263
15:15
Keynote: Rob Ambrose, Texas A&M University SwRI Building 263
15:45
Closing Remarks
Transition to Networking and Robotics Lab Tours
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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