JHU Robotics Day
April 10, 2026

9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus

The Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics will host Robotics Day on Homewood Campus in Baltimore, MD, on Friday, April 10, 2026.


This exciting, all-day event will showcase cutting-edge faculty and student research in Medical Robotics, Robots in Extreme Environments, BioRobotics, Embodied Intelligence, Interactive and Multi-Agent Systems, and more. Join participants from industry and academia for dynamic presentations, live demonstrations, and networking opportunities.

Registration is free of charge but required. Register HERE.
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PROGRAM
8:00-9:00  Registration & Breakfast  Levering/Glass Pavilion 
9:00-9:30 

 

Welcome & Opening Remarks, Greg Hager 

 

 

Levering/Glass Pavilion 
9:30-9:45  Welcome & Remarks Dean Ed Schlesinger, Benjamin T. Rome Dean of JHU’s Whiting School of Engineering  Levering/Glass Pavilion
9:45-10:05  “The Future of Medical Robotics: From Teleoperation to Autonomy,” Axel Krieger    Levering/Glass Pavilion 
10:05-10:25  New Faculty Spotlights 

Zih-Yun “Sarah” Chiu 

Anand Bhattad 

Lalithkumar Seenivasan 

Manish Sahu  

Levering/Glass Pavilion 
10:30  BREAK   
10:45-11:05  “Physical AI at the Edge: Connecting Perception to Action for On-Device Autonomous Intelligence,” Tinoosh Mohsenin  Levering/Glass Pavilion 
11:05-11:30  New Faculty Spotlights 

Ziyun “Claude” Wang 

Tianmin Shu 

Abhishek Cauligi 

Joseph Moore 

Chinmay Maheshwari  

Levering/Glass Pavilion 
11:30-1:30  Lab Demonstrations & Posters 

 

Hackerman Hall Robotorium, Other Labs 
12:30-1:25  Boxed Lunch  Levering/Glass Pavilion 
1:30-1:50  “Connecting Research to the Real World: Collaborations and Partnerships,” Greg Hager

David Handelman, Sr. Staff Roboticist and Program Manager, Applied Physics Lab

Levering/Glass Pavilion 
1:50-2:10  Industry Keynote: “Towards Autonomous Scientific Research,” Sam Schmidgall, Research Scientist at Google DeepMind Glass Pavilion 
2:10-2:30  Industry Keynote: “Driving AI Innovation in Healthcare Robotics through Open Data and Foundation Models,” Daguang Xu, Senior Research Manager at NVIDIA Glass Pavilion 
2:30-2:50  Industry Keynote: “Humanoid Robots for Human Spaces,” Kelleher Guerin, VP Platform Architecture at Fauna Robotics, an Amazon Company

 

Glass Pavilion 
2:50-3:00  JHU Corporate Engagement Office, Seth Zonies  Glass Pavilion 
3:30  Reception  Hackerman Hall,  

1st Floor South Lobby 

Stay tuned for updates as we continue to finalize program details!

Please contact Brendan Guerzon with questions.

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