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Seth Hutchinson: Model-Based Methods in Today's Data-Driven Robotics Landscape | Priors #02

Priors, a Boston robotics research group, hosts the second lecture in its series. Seth Hutchinson, a Northeastern professor, examines robotics problems where data-driven methods are expensive, slow or dangerous, and presents model-based alt

Starts

2026-11-02T23:00:00+00:00

Ends

2026-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

Organizer

Personal

Location

Boston, United States

Priors, a Boston robotics research group, hosts the second lecture in its series. Seth Hutchinson, a Northeastern professor, examines robotics problems where data-driven methods are expensive, slow or dangerous, and presents model-based alternatives in flapping flight, soft continuum robots, a cable-driven graffiti-painting robot and safe mobile manipulation around people. He also considers where learned tools can improve those methods. A 40-minute talk is followed by 15 minutes of Q&A and networking, for researchers and developers working on world models, VLAs, diffusion policies, tactile sensing, teleoperation, manipulation or online RL.