Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

---

For more information about Stanford’s graduate programs, visit: https://online.stanford.edu/graduate-education

January 23, 2026
This seminar covers two lectures.

Autonomous Navigation in Complex Outdoor Environments: Towards Companion Robots for Longevity
• Deploying mobile robots in unstructured outdoor environments
• Robots going beyond simple navigation to also understand human behavior and enhance personal mobility
• Previous approaches for long-range outdoor navigation, with a focus on scene understanding and planning
• A high-level overview of current work

From Digital Humans to Safe Humanoids: Grounded Reasoning and Compliant Interaction
• Two complementary directions toward human-centered embodied intelligence
• An introduction to GentleHumanoid
• How large language models can be grounded in 3D human motion for behavior understanding and planning, highlighting ChatPose and ChatHuman

To follow along with the seminar schedule, visit: stanfordasl.github.io/robotics_seminar

Jing Liang, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford Robotic Center
Yao Feng, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford