The Robotics and Embodied AI Lab and Mila are hosting the Winter 2026 edition of the Mila Robot Learning Seminar; a set of virtual talks by researchers in this field. Seminars usually take place at 11:00 Eastern time on Thursdays and are streamed on our YouTube channel.

We have an exciting lineup of speakers for this newest edition of the seminar series! Follow us on Twitter for more updates.

Speaker

Talk title

Date/Time

YouTube link

Iro Armeni
Assistant Professor
Stanford
Rectified Point Flow: Generic Point Cloud Pose Estimation
22 January 2026
11:00 hrs EDT

Majid Khadiv
Assistant Professor
TUM
A Scalable Path Towards Humanoid Foundation Models
29 January 2026
11:00 hrs EDT

Yunzhu Li
Assistant Professor
Columbia
Scaling Robotic Manipulation via Structured World Models and Tactile Sensing
5 February 2026
11:00 hrs EDT

Andrew Wagenmaker
Postdoctoral Scholar
UC Berkeley
What Does RL Theory Have to Do with Robotics?
12 February 2026
11:00 hrs EDT

Makram Chahine
PhD Student
MIT
From Internet to Edge and Back
19 February 2026
11:00 hrs EDT

Nils Dengler
Ph.D. Student
University of Bonn
Learning Perception and Manipulation of Objects in Cluttered Environments
5 March 2026
11:00 hrs EDT

Anirudha Majumdar
Associate Professor
Princeton University
Visiting Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
Trustworthy World Models for Safe Generalist Robots
12 March 2026
11:00 hrs EDT

Christina Kassab
Ph.D. Student
Oxford Robotics Institute
University of Oxford
A Unified Approach to Semantic and Geometric Mapping
2 April 2026
11:00 hrs EDT

Tom Silver
Assistant Professor
Princeton University
Towards Robots that Learn In-The-Wild by Engineering Their Own Software
9 April 2026
11:00 hrs EDT

Coline Devin
Member of Technical Staff
Generalist AI
16 April 2026
11:00 hrs EDT

Angelica Lim
Associate Professor
Simon Fraser University
23 April 2026
11:00 hrs EDT

Steven Parkison
Researcher
Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Québec (IREQ)
30 April 2026
11:00 hrs EDT