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16 February, The Radical Potential and Complex Challenges of Robotics, Keynote at the CADR-RAS Showcase, Adelaide, Australia.
17 February, DSTG Briefings, QUT, Adelaide, Australia
12 March, “Strategy for a disrupted future”, Panel Discussion at the QUT Senior Leadership Forum
16 March, “New and Emerging Technologies in Transport”, Guest Lecture BSB105 The Future Enterprise, QUT, Brisbane, Australia.
22 March, Bio-Inspired Robotics and AI, Gentle Thinkers event, Brisbane Square Library
25 March: MC for the Game Changers, World Science Festival Brisbane
31 March, keynote speaker, Maths in the Brain workshop, Melbourne.
6 May: Where AI is going and what it means for STEM Education, Australian Council of Deans of Science Learning & Teaching Forum (online)
7 May: “Mentoring Researchers”, Mentors Connect workshop run by South Western Sydney University and Western Sydney University (online).
9 May, What’s the Deal with AI? Symptoms to Surgery – The GP Guide to Brain & Spine event, Briz Brain & Spine team, Sofitel Brisbane.
20 May, “Taking, and Giving, Advice in Research and Academia”, Starting Strong: Building Your Research Career Event Day 1, ECU, Perth, Australia.
20 May, Panel Discussion, Starting Strong: Building Your Research Career Event Day 1, ECU, Perth, Australia.
21 May, Panel Discussion, Starting Strong: Building Your Research Career Event Day 2, ECU, Perth, Australia.
26 May, The Local Positioning System (LPS), Transport and Mobility Industry Network Event, QUT/AVR3
1 – 5 June, IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA2026), Vienna. Team presentations / presenting on behalf of team for:
- ICRA2026 Invited Keynote Talk: From Neuroscience to Autonomous Vehicle Navigation
- ICRA2026 standalone paper: Event-LAB: Towards Standardized Evaluation of Neuromorphic Localization Methods, Adam D. Hines, Alejandro Fontan, Michael J Milford, Tobias Fischer
- ICRA2026 standalone paper: Prepare for Warp Speed: Sub-millisecond Visual Place Recognition Using Event Cameras, Vignesh Ramanathan, Michael J Milford, Tobias Fischer
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) presentation: Ensemble-Based Event Camera Place Recognition Under Varying Illumination, Joseph, Therese, Fischer, Tobias, Milford, Michael J
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) presentationStructured Pruning for Efficient Visual Place Recognition, Oliver Grainge, Michael Milford, Indu Bodala, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn and Shoaib Ehsan
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) presentation TeTRA-VPR: A Ternary Transformer Approach for Compact Visual Place Recognition, Oliver Grainge, Michael J. Milford, Indu Bodala, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Shoaib Ehsan
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) presentation On Motion Blur and Deblurring in Visual Place Recognition, Timur Ismagilov, Bruno Ferrarini, Michael Milford, Tan Viet Tuyen Nguyen, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Shoaib Ehsan
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM) paper presentation: A Roadmap for Responsible Robotics, Araiza-Illan, Dejanira, Baum, Kevin, Beebee, Helen, Chatila, Raja, Moth-Lund Christensen, Sarah, Coghlan, Simon, Collins, Emily, Conroy, S. Kate, Cunha, Alcino, Dobrosovestnova, Anna, Duijf, Hein, Evers, Vanessa, Fisher, Michael, Hochgeschwender, Nico, Kokciyan, Nadin, Lemaignan, Severin, Rodriguez-Lera, Francisco, Ljungblad, Sara, Magnusson, Martin, Mansouri, Masoumeh, Milford, Michael, Moon, AJung, Powers, Thomas M., Salvini, Pericle, Scantamburlo, Teresa, Schuster, Nick, Slavkovik, Marija, Topcu, Ufuk, Vanegas, Daniel, Wasowski, Andrzej, & Yang, Yi
- Workshop: The Good Reviewer: Shaping up peer-review in the robotics community, Alejandro Fontan, Gokul B Nair, Irene Ballester, Lisa Weijler, Riccardo Giubilato, Javier Civera, Tobias Fischer, Michael J Milford
9-11 June, Invited Keynote Speaker at the International Conference on Smart Mechatronics (ICSMech 2026), Bandung, Indonesia.
23 June, “Taking, and Giving, Advice in Research and Academia”, opening keynote at Research Bazaar Queensland, QUT KG campus, Brisbane.
6 – 10 July, invited speaker, iNAV Symposium, Banff, Canada
12 July, [declined, travel conflict] invited senior speaker/mentor and panelist, RSS Pioneers, RSS2026, Sydney
5 August, The Performance-Introspection Dilemma for Robotics, AI and Autonomy in Defence, Oral Presentation at Australian Defence Science, Technology and Research (ADSTAR2026) Summit, Adelaide, Australia.
October 13-15, Invited talk at the Nature Conference on Autonomous Robotics, organized by Nature Electronics, Nature Sensors, and Nature Communications in partnership with Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea.
December 11/12: Invited talk and panelist at proposed Robot Learning Workshop at NeurIPs2026, Sydney