Slides from Talks

I plan to post slides from talks here. For some of the talks, I’ve presented jointly with others.

1/21/2026: Home Robots for Aging in Place – AgeTech Connect Atlanta Meetup – 2026 Kickoff!, Atlanta, GA [Google Slides] [PDF Slides]

5/14/2025: Home Robots as Care Partners: Opportunities and Challenges Illustrated with Examples – Workshop on Robotics for Nursing, ISMR, Atlanta, GA [Google Slides] [PDF Slides]

4/18/2025: What will it take for human-scale mobile manipulators to be happily used in homes? – Robotics Institute Seminar (RI Seminar), CMU, Pittsburgh, PA [Google Slides] [PDF Slides][Video]

3/15/2024 : Together, We Can Get There: An Open Community Approach to Accessible Home Robots – Assistive Applications, Accessibility, and Disability Ethics (A3DE) workshop, HRI 2024, Boulder, CO [Google Slides] [PDF Slides]

3/11/2024 : Glimpses of a Future Where Mobile Manipulators Support Aging in Place – HRI for Aging in Place workshop, HRI 2024, Boulder, CO [Google Slides] [PDF Slides]

2/29/2024 : Human Factors not Humanoids: Why portability, community, and ease of use will determine the future of mobile manipulation – Google DeepMind in Mountain View, CA [Google Slides] [PDF Slides]

8/23/2023 : The Future of Friendly Mobile Manipulation – IRIM Fall Symposium hosted by the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA [Google Slides] [PDF Slides]

11/30/2022 : Why Human-Scale Mobile Manipulators Will Eventually Be In Homes – IRIM Robotics Days for Industry in Atlanta, GA [Google Slides] [PDF Slides]

10/15/2022 : Toward Versatile and Inclusive Mobile Manipulators – ErgoX Symposium in Atlanta, GA [Google Slides] [PDF Slides]

8/24/2022 : Visually Estimating Contact Pressure for Humans and Robots – IRIM Fall Symposium hosted by the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) at Georgia Tech [Google Slides] [PDF Slides] [Human Paper] [Robot Paper]

5/24/2022 : The Design of Stretch: A Compact, Lightweight Mobile Manipulator for Indoor Human Environments – Paper presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Philadelphia, PA [Google Slides] [PDF Slides] [Video] [Paper]

5/10/2022 : Mobile Manipulation for Healthcare – Keynote Talk at the Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum in Boston, MA [Google Slides] [PDF]

4/18/2022 : My Work with Stretch at Georgia Tech – Talk at Hello Robot’s 2nd Stretch Social [Google Slides] [PDF]

4/11/2022 : Commercialization of a Novel Mobile Manipulator – Guest Lecture for Prof. Zackory Erickson‘s class at CMU, 16-887: Robotic Caregivers and Intelligent Physical Collaboration [Google Slides] [PDF]

11/15/2021 : Towards a Future with Inclusive Mobile Manipulators – Guest Lecture for Prof. Maru Cabrera’s Assistive Robotics Class [Google Slides] [PDF]

11/12/2021 : Hello Robot: Democratizing Mobile Manipulation – Oregon State University Robotics Seminar [Google Slides] [PDF]

10/20/2021 : Hello Robot: Democratizing Mobile Manipulation – ROS World 2021 [Google Slides] [PDF]

10/14/2021 : A Brief History of Stretch: A Friendly Mobile Manipulator for Indoor Human Environments – Guest Lecture for Prof. Wendy Roger‘s class CHLH 494: Human-Robot Interaction in Community Health at UIUC [Google Slides] [PDF]

8/25/2021 : From One to Many: My Personal Quest for Meaningful Mobile Manipulation – Fall 2021 IRIM Research Symposium at Georgia Tech [Google Slides] [PDF] [Video]

5/15/2021 : Toward a New Kind of Assistive Robot – LIBERATE 2021 – Living Better Through Rehabilitative and Assistive Technologies, NSF Convergence Workshop [Google Slides] [PDF] [Video]

2/24/2021 : Mobile Cobots as Assistive Technology – DPT899: Interfacing Engineering Technology and Rehabilitation, Guest lecture for Prof. Randy Trumbower’s class at Harvard [Google Slides] [PDF]