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Bay Area Robotics Symposium 2026

TL;DR

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Event landing page for the 2026 Bay Area Robotics Symposium (BARS), to be held Friday, October 30, 2026 at UC Berkeley’s Pauley Ballroom in the MLK Jr. Building. The symposium gathers Bay Area roboticists — academic and industry — for a day of faculty talks, industry + student spotlight talks, keynotes, and student poster sessions. Registration is open. Organized by Negar Mehr (Berkeley), Mark Mueller (Berkeley), and Monroe D. Kennedy III (Stanford). Speaker lineup and keynote topics are TBD at time of filing.

Key claims

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  • Symposium is on Friday, October 30, 2026 at UC Berkeley Pauley Ballroom [§location].
  • Program consists of four faculty talk sessions, two industry & student spotlight talk sessions, two keynotes, and two student poster sessions across a 08:30-17:30 day [§schedule].
  • Registration open via na.eventscloud.com; university ID required at check-in [§registration].

Method

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Event website (static GitHub Pages site). Content is a schedule table with speakers and keynotes marked TBD at filing time, plus practical logistics (parking TBD, reception TBD).

Results

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Not applicable — this is an event announcement, not a research artifact. Serves as the canonical entry point for BARS 2026 registration and future schedule updates.

Why it’s interesting

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Bay Area robotics events are a leading indicator of who is working on what and what will show up in filed papers over the next 6-12 months. BARS in particular is where Berkeley, Stanford, and Bay Area industry labs surface new work; the schedule (when it fills in) will be a useful signal for prioritizing reading among the flood of robotics papers already filed here — e.g. the recent Berkeley/Stanford work on retargeting and policy learning shows up in Human-to-Robot Retargeting and VLA Models.

See also

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