Talks
Recorded talks and seminars, newest first. The range runs from a general audience to a robotics seminar, so the right one depends on who is watching. For a short biography or a photograph, see the biography page.
Featured · TEDxMIT · April 2025
The Robot That Broke the Rules, and What It Means for the Future of AI
On engineering general intelligence: why the next step for AI may be learning when to break the rules, and what changes when machines design things that have to survive contact with the physical world. Eight minutes, and the best starting point for a general audience.
Watch on YouTubeGRASP Seminar, University of Pennsylvania
2026
2026
Spring 2026 GRASP on Robotics
The full research program end to end: representation, learning, optimization, and the move from simulation to hardware.
MIT Corporate Relations
2022
2022
MIT.nano
2019
2019
High Resolution Tactile Sensing for HCI, Robotics and VR/AR
The scalable tactile glove and what dense touch data makes possible.
MIT Professional Education
2018
2018
Computational Design for Manufacturing
Two short promotional clips for a professional education course, not a lecture: a minute each on why design is becoming a computational problem.
Stanford, EE380 Computer Systems Colloquium
2014
2014
Abstractions for Multi-Material 3D Printing
The case for a language and compiler layer between a design and a printer. The longest and most complete of the older talks.
Carnegie Mellon, Robotics Institute Seminar
2014
2014
Abstractions for Multi-Material 3D Printing
The same argument, for a robotics audience.
ACM SIGGRAPH
2009
2009
Significant New Researcher Award
The award announcement, and the acceptance talk in two parts.
Given, but not recorded
- “Can Computers Beat Humans at Design?”, Fraunhofer Direct Digital Manufacturing Conference, 2025. Slides only.
- “Can Computers Beat Humans at Design?”, Soft Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich, May 2023.
- “Undergraduate Learning at MIT”, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, November 2022.