REAL - Robotics and Embodied AI Lab

This week, the Robot Learning Seminar is excited to host Kensuke Nakamura @kensukenk, Ph.D. student at CMU, on "Safety in a Learned World: When and how can world models help keep robots safe?". See you Thursday at 11:00am ET! 🎥 youtube.com/live/0Wsk-VZum_I

This week, the Mila Robot Learning Seminar is excited to host Hongyu Li (NVIDIA) for his talk "Perceiving, Predicting, and Planning Physical Interaction in Observation-Centric Coordinates." See you Thursday at 11:00AM Eastern! Livestream: youtube.com/live/U-b-11TIUV4

The full schedule for the Fall 2026 edition of our Robot Learning Seminar Series is now available on our website: montrealrobotics.ca/robotlea…. We have great talks lined up every Thursday at 11 AM Eastern, streamed live on YouTube!

The Mila Robot Learning Seminar is back today with Boris Ivanovic (NVIDIA) @iamborisi with his talk "Building Embodied Reasoning Models for Physical AI" at 11:00 AM ET! Livestream: youtube.com/live/AKU6QQ_MtWg

The Mila Robot Learning Seminar returns this Thursday (Oct 15, 11am ET) with Eric Dexheimer (Imperial College London) @eric_dexheimer for his talk "Geometric Priors for Dense SLAM." Livestream: youtube.com/watch?v=tuEzO1mB…

The Mila Robot Learning Seminar is back for Fall 2026! 🤖 We kick off this Thursday (Oct 8, 11am ET) with Paul-Edouard Sarlin (Google) @pesarlin for his talk "Geometry is the harness of 3D learning." Livestream: youtube.com/live/OU-UmmOmZ5o

For the last talk of this term, we are thrilled to have @s_a_parkison, a robotics researcher at IREQ/@hydroquebec. His talk is titled: "Robot Navigation for Inspection and Intervention". See you this Thursday at 11:00AM ET! 🎥: youtube.com/@MontrealRobotic… 🏠: montrealrobotics.ca/robotlea…

This week the Robot Learning Seminar is excited to host @petitegeek, an associate professor at @SFU_CompSci. Her talk is titled: "Multimodal and Socially Interactive Embodied AI". See you tomorrow at 11:00AM ET! 🎥: youtube.com/@MontrealRobotic… 🏠: montrealrobotics.ca/robotlea…

This week, we are back with a talk from Christina Kassab, a PhD candidate @oxfordrobots. Her talk is titled: "A Unified Approach to Semantic and Geometric Mapping". See you this Thursday at 11:00AM ET! 🎥 : youtube.com/@MontrealRobotic… 🏠 : montrealrobotics.ca/robotlea…

Today, the Robot Learning Seminar is excited to have from @Majumdar_Ani, an associate professor at @Princeton. His talk is titled: "Trustworthy World Models for Safe Generalist Robots". See you at 11:00AM ET! 🎥 : youtube.com/@MontrealRobotic… 🏠 : montrealrobotics.ca/robotlea…

This week, we are excited to have a talk from Nils Dengler, a PhD student @UniBonn. His talk is titled: "Learning Perception and Manipulation of Objects in Cluttered Environments". See you at 11:00AM ET! 🎥 : youtube.com/@MontrealRobotic… 🏠 : montrealrobotics.ca/robotlea…

This week, we are excited to have a talk from @ajwagenmaker a Postdoc @UCBerkeley. His talk will discuss: "What Does RL Theory Have to Do with Robotics". See you tomorrow at 11:00AM ET! 🎥 : youtube.com/@MontrealRobotic… 🏠 : montrealrobotics.ca/robotlea…

This week, we are excited to continue the seminar with a presentation from @YunzhuLiYZ, an assistant professor at @Columbia. His talk is titled "Scaling Robotic Manipulation via Structured World Models and Tactile Sensing". See you at 11:00AM ET! 🎥: youtube.com/@MontrealRobotic…

This week, we have our second presentation of the year with Majid Khadiv, an assistant professor @TU_Muenchen. His talk is titled "A scalable path towards humanoid foundation models". See you at 11:00AM ET! 🎥: youtube.com/@MontrealRobotic… 🏠: montrealrobotics.ca/robotlea…

The Robot Learning Seminar is back for 2026! Today, we are excited to have the first presentation from @ir0armeni, an assistant professor at @Stanford. Her talk is titled "Rectified Point Flow: Generic Point Cloud Pose Estimation". See you at 11:00 ET! 🎥 youtube.com/@MontrealRobotic…

For the last robot learning seminar of this year we have @JosiahHanna, an assistant professor @UWMadison. His talk is titled "Safe and Deployable Reinforcement Learning for Reason and Action". See you today at 11:00AM ET! 🎥: youtube.com/@MontrealRobotic… 🏠 : montrealrobotics.ca/robotlea…

This week the robot learning seminar is continuing with @jcivera, a Full Professor at University of Zaragoza. His talk will be "Visual Localization and Mapping as the 3D Geometric Grounding of Foundation Model Representations". See you at 11:00AM ET! 🎥: youtube.com/@MontrealRobotic…