Hugh Herr
Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT Media Lab
About
Hugh Herr is a professor at the MIT Media Lab and co-directs MIT’s K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics. Herr’s work combines human physiology and electromechanics to develop bionic limbs, prostheses, exoskeletons, and neural interfaces.
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OCT
30
FRI
Minds in Motion convenes researchers, founders, investors, and builders working on physical AI. The program covers world models, robot foundation models, simulation and sim-to-real, hardware, fleet deployments, real-world data, infrastructure, startups, culture, and ethics across warehouses, roads, hospitals, factories, and space. It includes keynotes, fireside conversations, technical talks, case studies, live robot demonstrations, and a physical AI vision exercise; the strongest visions and demos may advance to the Imagination in Action Summit in Davos. Named speakers include Ahmad Bahai, Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President, Texas Instruments; Aleksandra Przegalinska, Vice-President, Kozminski University; Alexandra Vidyuk, CEO & General Partner, Beyond Earth Ventures; Colin Angle, CEO & Co-Founder, Familiar Machines & Magic; Daniela Rus, Director, MIT CSAIL; Emily Knight, CEO & President, The Engine; Fady Saad, Co-Founder of MassRobotics and GP at Cybernetix Ventures; Florian Gendeau, Head of Finance, Figure.ai; John Werner, Founder & CEO, Imagination In Action; Joyce Sidopoulos, Co-Founder & Chief of Operations, MassRobotics; Matt Ramsay, Corporate VP, Financial Strategy & Investor Relations, AMD; Neil Gershenfeld, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms; Oded Maron, Head of AI, MassRobotics; Paige Fox, Solutions Architect & ML Infrastructure Engineer, Databricks, ex-Google; Paul Golding, Head of Physical Intelligence, VP, Analog Devices; Rylan Hamilton, CEO & Co-Founder, Blue Water Autonomy; Sertac Karaman, Professor at MIT and Director at LIDS; Tye Brady, Chief Technologist, Amazon Robotics; and Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi, CIO Global Equities, UBS Global Wealth. Capacity is limited and registrations are reviewed by the hosts.