JHU Robotics Day was held on 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 again in 2027. Check back for more information!

To be added to our invitation list, or to request a pdf of our student resume book, email Brendan Guerzon.

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.

 

2026 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 

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