Join us for a groundbreaking event where four Leading Researchers and Industry Professionals come together for the first time in Hungary!

Are you ready to explore the future of AI and robotics? Whether you're an industry professional, researcher, or just a tech enthusiast, this is your chance to decode the secrets of machine intelligence and see how robotics is reshaping the world. Don't just read about innovation—experience it firsthand.

Be among the select 150 participants to gain exclusive insights into the latest advancements in AI and robotics. After the talks, take advantage of a unique networking opportunity with experts and like-minded professionals.

Event Program:

Guest Lecture 1: Sandor Felber - Deep Reinforcement Learning and Legged Locomotion (Quadrupeds & Humanoids)

1:15 - 1:45 PM 

Topic:
Sandor Felber will explore how reinforcement learning (RL) enables dynamic movement in quadrupeds and humanoids, covering key challenges in control, contact dynamics, and policy optimization. He will also discuss sim-to-real transfer techniques for real-world robot deployment.

Biography:
Sandor Felber is a Visiting Researcher of Robot Learning at MIT's CSAIL, focusing on learned control systems to enhance the intelligence and capabilities of humanoid robots leveraging sim-to-real reinforcement learning. Previously Sandor was part of the Optimus team at Tesla's Robotics R&D department in Palo Alto, CA, and at the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics where he worked with Kawada Robotics to develop safe teleoperated control systems for robotic manipulation in shared workspaces.

 

Guest Lecture 2: Benedek Forrai - Behavior Cloning, VLMs, and Manipulation (Hardware & Hands)

1:45 - 2:15 PM

Topic: Benedek Forrai will discuss how behavior cloning (BC) and generative AI models are revolutionizing robotic manipulation, surpassing traditional reinforcement learning in many areas. He will address the limitations of large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) and the challenges of achieving truly general robotic policies.

Biography: Benedek Forrai is a founding engineer at mimic robotics, a swiss robotics startup tackling manipulation problems with generative AI, and is also involved in VIKI (Védelmi Innovációs Kutatóintézet) as a robotics consultant. Before founding mimic, Benedek was a Research Assistant at the Soft Robotics Laboratory of ETH Zürich, where he published on learning based manipulation and locomotion. His master studies at ETH Zürich were supported by the Stipendium Peregrinum Scholarship.
 

Recess & Refreshments: 2:15 - 2:30 PM

Guest Lecture 3: László A. Jeni - Perception for Robotics, Geometric Reasoning, and Computational Behavior

2:30 - 3:00 PM
Topic:
László A. Jeni will dive into the challenges of spatial reasoning in multimodal AI, discussing innovative methods like universal 3D semantic lifting, efficient Vision Transformers, and improved benchmarking frameworks for enhanced robotic perception and decision-making.

Biography:
László A. Jeni, Assistant Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, leads the CMU CUBE Lab, where he researches understanding behavior and environments using computer vision, spatial reasoning, affective computing, and immersive technologies. He holds degrees from Eötvös Loránd University and the University of Tokyo. Recipient of multiple Best Paper and Outstanding Reviewer awards, Dr. Jeni has authored over 90 peer-reviewed publications and received funding from NIH, NSF, DARPA, and companies like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google, and Fujitsu.

 

Guest Lecture 4: Jozsef Nagy - Computer Vision and Robotics in Factory Automation

3:00 - 3:30 PM
Topic:
Jozsef Nagy will provide insights into the evolution of Industry 4.0 and the challenges of deploying robotics in constrained factory environments. He will also discuss the journey from prototyping to full-scale automation in industrial applications.

Biography:
Jozsef Nagy, Senior Manager, Product Marketing - Cognex, Vision Software
Jozsef joined Cognex in 2011 as an Engineer in the Budapest office. In 2015, he moved to the Corporate Headquarters in Natick, MA, where he transitioned into a Product Management role. During his tenure at Cognex, he has worked with a wide breadth of products including Image-Based Barcode Readers, 2D & 3D Vision Systems, and PC Vision Software Platforms. His work has focused on automating various steps of production pipelines across different industries through Cognex's Vision Technology, including in-vitro diagnostic instruments, collaborative robot integration, factory automation with traditional industrial robots, and warehouse automation.
 

Recess: 3:30 - 3:45 PM

Roundtable Discussion with All Presenters: 3:45 - 4:25 PM

All speakers will participate in a moderated panel discussion about recent developments in the fields of Control Engineering, Robotics, and AI, followed by an open Q&A session.

Closing Speech: 4:25 - 4:30 PM

Speakers: Adam Miklosi + Sandor Felber

Networking event: 4:30 - 5:30 PM

Feel free to join and talk about science with all the participants. Light food and drinks to be served by Biscee.

Limited seats available – first come, first served! Don’t miss out on this extraordinary event!