Registration for TEROS 2026 is full!!

We have reached capacity for for TEROS 2026. At this time, new registrants will be added to a waitlist. You will be notified if space becomes available. We are sorry for anybody who is dissapointed but very excited that so many people will join us.

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.

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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

UT-Austin

Rob Ambrose

Professor

Texas A&M University

Shaun Edwards

CTO & Co-Founder

Plus One Robotics

Vaibhav Unhelkar

Assistant Professor

Rice University

Spotlight Speakers

Speakers will be posted as they are confirmed.

Alex Sowell

Avionics Engineer

NASA Johnson Space Center

Arthur Zhang

PhD Student

UT-Austin

Cody Gonzalez

Assistant Professor

UTSA

Eddie Hilburn

PhD Student

Texas A&M University

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®) Steve Dellenback, SwRI Welcome to Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®)	SwRI Building 263
09:05	Introduction of TEROS 2025 Meera Day Towler, P.E., Southwest Research Institute Paul Evans, Southwest Research Institute	SwRI Building 263
09:15	Keynote: Robert Ambrose The Texas A&M University Space Institute and novel mobile robotic systems	SwRI Building 263
09:45	Keynote: Kamel Saidi, NIST	SwRI Building 263
10:00	Panel: Research Opportunities in Robotics Christy Cardenas, IRIS Kamel Saidi, NIST Alex Sowell, NASA Johnson Space Center	SwRI Building 263
10:30	Break for Networking and Posters	SwRI Building 263
11:00	Keynote: Joydeep Biswas, UT-Austin Robots Without Boundaries: Embracing the Unseen and Tackling Novel Tasks	SwRI Building 263
11:30	Spotlight Speakers 1 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 Gonzalez, UTSA Multifunctional Lithium-ion Batteries, a Path to Self-Powered Robotics Shane King Assistive devices for motor and sensory restoration: Addressing the need for bidirectional information flow between users and their devices Vinayak Krishnamurthy, Texas A&M University 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: Shaun Edwards, Plus One Robotics	SwRI Building 263
14:00	Keynote: Vaibhav Unhelkar Interactive AI Techniques for Training Human-Robot Teams	SwRI Building 263
14:30	Break for Networking and Posters	SwRI Building 263
15:15	Spotlight Speakers 2 Manoranjan Majji, Texas A&M University Autonomous Space Robotic Systems: Challenges and Opportunities Yildirim Hurmuzlu, SMU Magnetically actuated millimeter-scale biped Weihang Guo, Rice University CaStL: Constraints as Specifications through LLM Translation for Long-Horizon Task and Motion Planning Arthur Zhang, UT-Austin CREStE: Scalable Mapless Navigation with Internet Scale Priors and Counterfactual Guidance Eddie Hilburn, Texas A&M University 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

Registration for TEROS 2026 is full!!

About

Registration

Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Joydeep Biswas

Rob Ambrose

Shaun Edwards

Vaibhav Unhelkar

Spotlight Speakers

Alex Sowell

Arthur Zhang

Cody Gonzalez

Eddie Hilburn

Lillian Chin

Manoranjan Majji

Shane King

Thai Duong

Vinayak Krishnamurthy

Weihang Guo

Yildirim Hurmuzlu

Schedule

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

Venue Information

Participating Institutions

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Organizers

Meera Towler

Paul Evans

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Registration for TEROS 2026 is full!!

About

Registration

Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Joydeep Biswas

Shaun Edwards

Spotlight Speakers

Alex Sowell

Arthur Zhang

Cody Gonzalez

Eddie Hilburn

Yildirim Hurmuzlu

Schedule

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

Venue Information

Participating Institutions

Contact Us

Organizers

Other Editions of TEROS

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