Events

Date: 16 October 2026   Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Location: Basement, Digital Environment Research Institute, 67-75 New Rd, London E1 1HH, United Kingdom Map 

This seminar brings together diverse areas of robotics research, from artificial muscles and surgical robotics to manipulation, graspability and dexterous robotic hands. It also explores human–robot interaction, facial expression and motion transfer, examining how robots can move, interact with their surroundings and communicate with people.

This seminar is supported by AgiBot, members of their R&D team will also be joining us in person to take part in the discussions and answer questions. The event will provide an opportunity to explore potential collaborations between Agibot and QMUL.

Below is the schedule.
14:00–14:05 ---- Welcome speech by Greg Slabaugh (DERI director)
14:05–14:35 ---- AgiBot keynote: company background, technologies and research directions
14:35-15:40 ---- Presentations from QMUL academics
15:40–16:00 ---- Robot demonstrations, open discussion and Q&A

The AgiBot team will bring the following robots:

AgiBot X2 Ultra / Edu — a half-size humanoid robot
AgiBot A3 Ultra — a full-size humanoid robot
AgiBot G2 — a wheeled humanoid robot
AgiBot D1 Edu — a quadruped robot

Here is the list of presentations from QMUL academics:

Majid Taghavi: The Next Generation of Robotic Muscles
Hadi Sadati: Physically Intelligent Surgical Robots
Changjae Oh: Robot Perception and Learning for Manipulation and Human Interaction
Arsen Abdulali: Human-robot communication
Ketao Zhang: Bio-inspired Robotics
Miles Hansard: Probabilistic Graspability
Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne: Robotic Facial Expressions
Shanxin Yuan: Robotic Hands and Motion Transfer