Robots in Human Spaces: Designing Coexistence
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Event Embodied Intelligence x Stanford Connect Lunch
Connecting the dots between Swiss fellows in the Bay Area Innovation Ecosystem and Swissnex in San Francisco.
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Event Robots in Human Spaces: Designing Coexistence
An invite-only event to open a discussion around the coexistence of robots and humans with experts from the Bay Area and Switzerland.
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Embodied Intelligence
Join us at Swissnex on the afternoon of October 29 for a discussion and networking with robotic experts and designers.
Robots are not limited to factories and manufactures anymore and are entering our streets with Waymos and Teslas, our homes with smart vacuum cleaners and soon potentially with Figures, and worksites. From construction sites to our homes, from infrastructure maintenance to social care, the way robots slowly but surely integrate into human spaces is defined by how society is embracing or resisting this new wave of embodied intelligence.
Join us for an afternoon of discussions and networking as we explore the topic with robotic experts and designers: How can robots safely, socially, and meaningfully operate in everyday environments. How are we designing coexistence?
A panel discussion with Swiss robotics innovators and a Bay Area expert will address questions like the biggest barriers to adoption, and the partnerships needed between technologists, policymakers, and communities to design robots that people trust.
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Fan Yang
Head of System Integration and Testing, Nimble RoboticsFan Yang is a senior engineering leader shaping the future of autonomous systems. With a background deploying robots at Zoox, Nuro, and now leading Systems Integration at Nimble, he bridges cutting-edge AI research with scalable commercial deployment, offering strategic guidance on safety, validation, and the path to market-ready robotics.
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Antonio Paolillo
Senior Researcher, SUPSI, IDSIA USI-SUPSIAntonio Paolillo is a Senior Researcher at IDSIA, USI-SUPSI, leading social human-robot interaction research. With a Ph.D. from Sapienza, he hold roles at EPFL, Idiap (Switzerland) and CNRS (France and Japan). He focuses on intuitive, adaptive robotics using AI, machine learning and control, contributing to research projects and serving as editor and workshop chair.
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Victor Klemm
PhD Student, RSL ETH ZurichVictor Klemm is a Swiss roboticist and PhD candidate at ETH Zurich’s Robotic Systems Lab, supervised by Prof. Marco Hutter and Prof. Roland Siegwart. His research focuses on advancing design and control of wheeled-legged robots by combining deep reinforcement learning with optimization-based methods, enabling agile and versatile robotic mobility.
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Lesya Hendrix
CEO, Spacer RoboticsLesya Hendrix is a robotics founder and CEO of Spacer Robotics, leading innovation at the intersection of robotics, construction, and space. Previously with Tesla and Nuro, she has launched factories, scaled teams, and built autonomous systems across three continents. Today, she’s focused on creating the physical-AI robots that will construct the infrastructure of the future.
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