Schedule of Events

9:00-9:10 AM

Introduction

9:10-9:40 AM

Wenzhen Yuan, Improving the Robustness of Manipulation Using Tactile Feedback 

9:40-10:10 AM

Roberto Martín-Martín, Learning Contact-rich Interaction Control 

10:10-10:40 AM

Sachin Chitta, CAD to Assembly

10:40-11:00 AM

Coffee Break

11:00-11:30 AM

Erwin Coumans, Towards Learning a Programmable Contact and Friction Simulator for Robotics 

11:30 AM-12:00 PM

Sergey Levine, Data-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation 

12:00-1:30 PM

Lunch & Break

1:30-2:00 PM

Dongjun Lee, Contact modeling and solving for industrial robot manipulation tasks

2:00-2:30 PM

Abhishek Gupta, Sequential Decision Making from Offline Data as a Tool for Accurate, Fine Manipulation

2:30-3:05 PM

 Lightning Talks 

3:05-3:30 PM

Coffee Break

3:30-4:00 PM

Ken Goldberg, Assembly of Deformable Bags and Disassembly of Knotted Deformable Cables 

4:00-4:30 PM

Ralph Lange, Flexible, Dexterous Assembly of Advanced Component Parts – Challenges and Approaches from an Industrial Perspective

4:30-4:45 PM

NIST, MOAD Benchmark announcement 

4:45-5:00 PM

Closing Remarks