RSS offers our attendees the opportunity to tour University of Southern California’s robotics labs and facilities, and see live demonstrations of our latest robotics technologies. Technical tours will take place on Tuesday, June 24, from 4:00–5:30 PM. Sign-ups are available through this Google Form: https://forms.gle/7dajcWGvDZhhCiyD8 (closes on June 13, 2025).
Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CAM)
PI: SK Gupta | Type: Tour (90 min) | https://sites.usc.edu/cam/
90-minute tour of USC’s advanced manufacturing facility
Location: 1115 W 25th St Los Angeles, CA 90007 (Maps)
RoboLAND Lab
PI: Feifei Qian | Type: Tour & Demo (30 min) | https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/roboland
Description: Bio-inspired locomotion and sensing on deformable terrains
Demo: Demonstrates proprioception-based terrain sensing using a quadrupedal robot, with applications in earth and planetary explorations.
Location: RTH 324 (Maps)
ICAROS Lab
PI: Stefanos Nikolaidis | Type: Tour & Demo (30 min) | https://icaros.usc.edu/
Description: Human-Robot Teaming and LLMs
Demo: Demonstrates VR-based human-robot teaming + Collaboration and communication with LLM-powered agents
Location: RTH 417 (Maps)
GVL Lab
PI: Yue Wang | Type: Presentation (30 min) | https://usc-gvl.github.io/
Description: Humanoid Teleoperation via VR
Location: OHE 136 (Maps)
Time: 4pm
SLURM Lab
PI: Daniel Seita | Type: Presentation (30 min) | https://slurm-lab-usc.github.io/
Description: Learning & Manipulation
Location: OHE 136 (Maps)
Time: 4.30pm
HaRVI Lab
PI: Heather Culbertson | Type: Tour (30 min) | https://sites.usc.edu/culbertson/
Description: Haptics and Virtual Interaction
Location: RTH 416 (Maps)
Dynamic Robotics Lab
PI: Quan Nguyen | Type: Tour & Demo (30 min) | https://sites.usc.edu/quann/
Description: Robot Dynamics and Control
Demo: Demonstrates whole-body dynamic interaction using a humanoid robot.
Location: BHE 113 (Maps)
Lira Lab
PI: Erdem Bıyık | Type: Presentation (30 min) | https://liralab.usc.edu/
Description: Learning and Interactive Robot Autonomy
Location: OHE 136 (Maps)
Time: 5pm
Interaction Lab
PI: Maja Mataric | Type: Tour (30 min) | https://uscinteractionlab.web.app/
Description: Socially assistive robotics and human-robot interaction that supports human health and wellness, communication, learning, and autonomy
Location: RTH 423 (Maps)