<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><b class="">====================================<br class="">3rd Summer School on Cognitive Robotics</b><br class="">University of Southern California<br class="">July 17-21, 2019<br class=""><a href="https://sites.usc.edu/cognitive-robotics/" class="">https://sites.usc.edu/cognitive-robotics/</a><div class=""><b class="">=====================================<br class=""></b><br class=""><b class="">The Summer School</b><br class="">The overarching goal of the school is to help build a solid bridge between AI and Robotics. Several features make this school unique. The primary objective is to catalyze a community of researchers that work closely together on a sustained basis drawing equally upon the disciplines of Robotics and AI, particularly those focused on planning, learning and execution within both subjects. In addition, the school has a very strong practical component. As in previous years, we plan to offer lab sessions every day, in addition to a grand challenge that the students need to accomplish by the end of the school. Each lab will present different perspectives on cognitive robotics and will focus on different kinds of robotic systems. Finally, together with (task and motion) planning, reasoning with risk and uncertainty, robust execution, perception and manipulation, this year, we have a new, transversal theme, which will impact all the others: learning. Five out of the sixteen speakers perform research at the crossover between learning, robotics and AI. The students will get a chance to gain insight into imitation learning, learning to reach and grasp, hierarchical reinforcement learning and robust deep learning. <br class=""><br class=""><b class="">The University</b><br class="">The Summer School will be held at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, CA. USC is one of the world’s leading private research universities, known as a global center for arts, technology, and business. USC is home to the Viterbi School of Engineering, which is comprised of eight separate departments. Additionally, Viterbi houses the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center (RASC), which is an interdisciplinary organized research unit that focuses on the science and technology of effective, robust, human-centric, and scalable robotic systems. RASC represents the organized research efforts of 16 Viterbi faculty towards creating autonomous robotic systems.<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">The Speakers</b><br class="">Sara Bernardini (Royal Holloway University of London)<br class="">Nikhil Bhargava (MIT)<br class="">Byron Boots (Georgia Tech)<br class="">Luca Carlone (MIT)<br class="">Caelan Garrett (MIT)<br class="">Malte Helmert (University of Basel)<br class="">Ashkan Jasour (MIT)<br class="">Phil Kilby (Australian National University)<br class="">Sven Koenig (USC)<br class="">Zico Kolter (Carnegie Mellon University)<br class="">George Konidaris (Brown University)<br class="">Ben Kuipers (University of Michigan)<br class="">Dragos Margineanru (Boeing Research & Technology)<br class="">Maja Mataric (USC)<br class="">Stefanos Nikolaidis (USC)<br class="">Masahiro Ono (JPL)<br class="">Reid Simmons (Carnegie Mellon University)<br class="">David Smith (NASA Ames Research Center)<div class="">Felipe Trevizan (Australian National University)<br class="">Brian Williams (MIT)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">The Organizing</b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;" class=""> </span><b class="">Committee</b></div><div class="">Sara Bernardini (Royal Holloway University of London)</div><div class="">Heather Culbertson (USC)</div><div class="">Tiago Vaquero (JPL)</div><div class="">Brian Williams (MIT)</div><div class=""><br class=""><b class="">To Register</b></div><div class="">Please follow the link <a href="https://sites.usc.edu/cognitive-robotics/registration/" class="">https://sites.usc.edu/cognitive-robotics/registration/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Contact Us</b></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; orphans: 2; text-align: center; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Send us questions and comments regarding the summer school at </span><font face="Open Sans, sans-serif" class=""><a href="mailto:CogRob2019@gmail.com" class="">CogRob2019@gmail.com</a></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>