Roboticists, Welcome to Week 1 of a new term. As is our tradition, the first seminar of the term will be a State of the Program presentation by our Robotics Program Director, Cindy Grimm. Dr. Grimm will talk about where the program is, and where it’s headed. She will also take any program-related questions you might have. As a reminder, everyone is expected to come to the seminar. We’ve got a strict no-device policy, but we also have coffee, tea, and cake. We’re still in KEC 1001 for this week. cheers -- Bill State of the Robotics Program Cindy Grimm, Oregon State University Abstract: We, the robots... or rather, the robotics program, will do a short (15-20min) review of who we are and what we do, followed by a Q&A led by the Robotics Graduate Student Association. Bio: Cindy Grimm works in the area of robotic grasping and manipulation for both industry and agriculture, as well as ethics, law and policy related to robotics. Her background is in Computer Graphics, Visualization, and Human-robot interaction. She received her PhD from Brown University in 1995 in the area of surface modeling, spent two years working at Microsoft Research on facial animation, then ten years as faculty in Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis. She is now at Oregon State University as a member of the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute.