Roboticists, A reminder to come and join us to celebrate our success at IROS this year and to find out about some of diverse research that we’re doing here in the Robotics Program. Tomorrow, 10am, KEC 1001, coffee, cake, robots! -- Bill This week, we have four short talks representing the diversity of research that we do here in the Robotics Program. All of these talks present work that recently appeared in the Internation Conference on Robots and Systems (IROS 2023). - Parallelized Control-Aware Motion Planning with Learned Controller Proxies, Chow, Chang, and Hollinger. - Hand Design Approach for Planar Fully Actuated Manipulators, Nave, DuFrene, Davidson, and Grimm. - Robottheory Fitness: GoBot’s Engagement Edge for Spurring Physical Activity in Young Children, Mayoral, Helmi, Warren, Logan, and Fitter. - Geometric Gait Optimization for Interia-Dominated Systems with Nonzero Net Momentum, Yang and Hatton.