Thank you to all of the speakers and participants of this year’s INTEGRATE Symposium. It was a great success because of you!!
Friday, April 18, 2025
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
H.F. DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building
University of Wisconsin – Madison
*Please note that registration is now closed for this event
2025 INTEGRATE Symposium Schedule
8:30 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM Welcome – Bilge Mutlu
9:05 AM Lightning Talks
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INTEGRATE Expedition – Comfort Team
- INTEGRATE Expedition – Human Movement Team
- Christine Lee
- Carter Sifferman
- Lindsay Jacobs
9:50 AM Keynote with Rob Seamans
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- “Economics of Robots – Overview and Open Questions”
10:45 AM Entrepreneur Panel – Hosted by Discovery to Product (D2P)
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- Moderator
- Abram Becker, Interim Director of D2P
- Panelists
- Luis Escano – Postdoc, Mechanical Engineering | CEO & Co-Founder, 3D Powder Tech
- Ross Mead – Founder and CEO, Semio
- Victor Santoro Fernandes – Postdoc, Medical Physics | Entrepreneurial Fellow
- Ian Bernstein – CEO Hackerbot
- Moderator
11:45 AM Lunch & Networking
12:30 PM Poster Session
1:15 PM Keynote with Bill Smart
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- “Privacy-Sensitive Robotics”
2:15 PM Lightning Talks
3:00 PM Closing Remarks
Keynote Speakers
Robert Seamans (PhD, UC Berkeley) is a Professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Director of the NYU Stern Center for the Future of Management, and a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. His research focuses on the economic consequences of AI, robotics and other advanced technologies. His research has been published in leading academic journals and been cited in numerous mainstream outlets including The Atlantic, Fortune, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and others. In 2015, Professor Seamans was appointed as the Senior Economist for technology and innovation on President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers.
Bill Smart is a Professor in the Robotics Program at Oregon State University, where he works in the areas of human-robot interaction. long-term autonomy, software architectures for robotics, and the intersection of law, policy, and robotics. He is also an Amazon Scholar at Amazon’s Lab126, where he works with the team developing the Astro home robot. Some of his recent work looks at the privacy implications of the widespread deployment of robots that are capable of understanding subtle context in the real world, and on how to mitigate the risks that these systems introduce. He is unreasonably proud of his Bacon-Erdös number, which is 6.
Talk Abstract: Privacy-Sensitive Robotics
As robots become more and more prevalent, both in the workplace and and outside it, they will have greater access to the details of our lives. Sensors used by these robots to make intelligent decisions about what to do can also be used to record the people and things around them. These sensors are fundamentally different from existing fixed infrastructure, such as surveillance cameras, because they are attached to a mobile system, capable to operating autonomously. How should we think about the new privacy risks that such systems bring with them? How can we mitigate these risks, while still reaping the benefits offered by the widespread use of robots? What do we even mean when we say the word “privacy”? In this talk, we’ll give a framework for how to think about privacy in the context of mobile robot systems, outline some of the potential risks introduced by this new technology and show some examples of technical mitigations that can preserve privacy, while still allowing the robot to do its job.