Texas Regional Robotics Symposium


April 14th, 2023

Rice University
Houston, 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.

Click here to register!

Sponsors

Rice University logo
Rice University George R. Brown School of Engineering logo

Participating Institutions

University of Texas at Austin logo
Texas A&M University logo
University of Texas at Arlington logo
University of Texas at Dallas logo
UT Southwestern Medical Center logo
Rice University logo

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.

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Ann Majewicz Fey

Professor

UT Austin

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Luis Sentis

Professor

UT Austin

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Dezhen Song

Professor

Texas A&M

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Moshe Vardi

Professor

Rice University

Spotlight Speakers

Speakers will be posted as they are confirmed.

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Shaun Azimi

Dexterous Robotics Team Leader

NASA Johnson Space Center

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Stuart Corr

Professor

Houston Methodist

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Ashish Deshpande

Professor

UT Austin

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Nicholas Gans

Professor

UT Arlington

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Kiju Lee

Professor

Texas A&M

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Roberto Martín-Martín

Professor

UT Austin

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Anoop Rajappan

Postdoc

Rice University

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Yu Xiang

Professor

UT Dallas

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 opens
08:45 Introduction Auditorium
09:00 Keynote: Unknown Speaker Auditorium
09:30 Keynote: Unknown Speaker Auditorium
10:00 Posters / Industry Booths / Coffee Event space
11:00 Spotlight Speakers 1
  • Unknown Speaker
    Remote Robotic Operations Supporting Human Space Exploration
  • Unknown Speaker
    Mobile Manipulation-Integration vs. Factorization
  • Unknown Speaker
    Swarm Robotics and its Potential for Complex Problems
  • Unknown Speaker
    Textile-Enabled Technologies for Wearable Robots
Auditorium
12:00 Lunch Event space
13:30 Keynote: Unknown Speaker Auditorium
14:00 Spotlight Speakers 2
  • Unknown Speaker
  • Unknown Speaker
    Harmony Exoskeleton: from Robotics Lab to Stroke Patients

14:30 Posters / Industry Booths / Coffee Event space
15:00 Keynote: Unknown Speaker Auditorium
15:30 Spotlight Speakers 3
  • Unknown Speaker
    Adding Safety to Learning by Demonstration
  • Unknown Speaker
    Object-Centric Perception for Robot Manipulation

16:00 Closing Remarks and Transition to Tours Auditorium
16:00 Networking / Coffee / Tours Event space

Venue Information

The symposium will be held in Rice University's Bioscience Research Collaborative (BRC).

Parking Information

Parking passes will be provided for the BRC garage which is beneath the BRC. If you would like to park at other on-campus options, you can park at those parking lots at an hourly rate. Please note that to use the parking pass, you have to swipe your credit card first upon entrance, and use the pass when exiting. Your card will not be charged in this way.

WIFI

BRC guests can access the Rice Visitors wifi network by agreeing to the Terms & Conditions when they open their web browser.

Accommodation Information

Hotel choices are available around the campus. The recommended hotel is InterContinental Houston – Medical Center, where a Rice rate is immediately applicable if you access via the above link (shown as Rice-TEROS on their webpage). Please keep in mind that the cut off date to get the discount is March 30, 2023.

Contact Us

You can reach us via email at teros2023@rice.edu

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