Oussama Khatib is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Robotics Laboratory at Stanford University. His research focuses on methodologies and technologies in human-centered robotics, haptic interactions, artificial intelligence, human motion synthesis and animation. During his talk, Professor Oussama will discuss how human‐robot collaboration can expand our abilities to reach new resources, build and maintain infrastructure, and perform disaster prevention and recovery operations – be it deep in oceans and mines, at mountain tops, or in space.