<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Dear colleague,</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">I would like to draw your attention to the 3</span>^rd<span style="font-size:10.5pt"> International Workshop on AI for Robotics, organized by </span><a href="https://europe.naverlabs.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="font-size:10.5pt">NAVER LABS Europe</a><span style="font-size:10.5pt">. </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">This two-day event will take place on Wednesday November 15</span>^th<span style="font-size:10.5pt"> and Thursday November 16</span>^th<span style="font-size:10.5pt">, 2023 at NAVER LABS Europe, in Grenoble - France (</span><a href="https://europe.naverlabs.com/travel/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="font-size:10.5pt">directions here</a><span style="font-size:10.5pt">), as well as online via live streaming.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Researchers and experts from different disciplines of AI and Robotics will share their current research, exchange insights and explore the future directions of the field. </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">As we will provide live streaming, regardless of your location, you will be an integral part of this event! It promises to be an exceptional gathering and we believe that your participation in this workshop will greatly contribute to its success. </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">You can </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/3rd-naver-labs-europe-international-workshop-on-ai-for-robotics-tickets-684674328347?aff=oddtdtcreator" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="font-size:10.5pt">register here</a><span style="font-size:10.5pt">.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">In order to make our workshop more interactive, we will organize an </span><b style="font-size:10.5pt">on-site poster session</b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> and award </span><b style="font-size:10.5pt">EUR 1000</b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> to the best contribution. Each presenter (arriving from outside the Grenoble area) of an accepted poster will be </span><b style="font-size:10.5pt">granted up to EUR 300</b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> to cover travel expenses. Posters can be </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/3rd-ai-for-robotics-workshop-at-naver-labs-europeposter-session-tickets-723258093427?aff=oddtdtcreator" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="font-size:10.5pt">submitted here</a> (until Oct. 31st)<span style="font-size:10.5pt">.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">For more details on the workshop, including registration information and the agenda, please visit our </span><a href="https://europe.naverlabs.com/research/3rd-ai-for-robotics-international-workshop/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="font-size:10.5pt">website</a><span style="font-size:10.5pt">.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u style="font-size:10.5pt">Speakers:</u></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;font-size:10.5pt">§<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Sangok Seok, NAVER LABS</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;font-size:10.5pt">§<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Sylvain Calinon, IDIAP Research Institute </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;font-size:10.5pt">§<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Devendra S.Chaplot, Mistral AI </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;font-size:10.5pt">§<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Martial Hebert, Carnegie Mellon University</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;font-size:10.5pt">§<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Nicolas Obin, Sorbonne University - IRCAM </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;font-size:10.5pt">§<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Jan Peters, Technische Universität Darmstadt </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;font-size:10.5pt">§<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Cordelia Schmid, INRIA, Google</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;font-size:10.5pt">§<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Laure Soulier, Sorbonne University - ISIR lab</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;font-size:10.5pt">§<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Markus Wulfmeier, DeepMind</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;font-size:10.5pt">§<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Oya Celiktutan, King's College London</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;font-size:10.5pt">§<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Gül Varol, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;font-size:10.5pt">§<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Davide Scaramuzza, University of Zurich</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;font-size:10.5pt">§<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Hao Su, University of California, San Diego</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;font-size:10.5pt">§<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Olivier Sigaud, Sorbonne University - ISIR lab</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Should you have any questions or require additional information, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">We thank you for considering our invitation, and we hope you can join us this November.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Sincerely,</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:underline">Martin Humenberger, Gregory Rogez, Diane Larlus, Christian Wolf, Jean-Michel Renders, Adrian Mos & Nicolas Guerin.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u style="font-size:10.5pt">About NAVER LABS: </u></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i style="font-size:10.5pt"> </i></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.naverlabs.com/en/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="font-size:10.5pt"><i>NAVER LABS</i></a><i style="font-size:10.5pt"> is the R&D subsidiary of </i><a href="https://www.navercorp.com/en" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="font-size:10.5pt"><i>NAVER Corporation</i></a><i style="font-size:10.5pt">, Korea’s leading internet company and a global tech company with hundreds of millions of users worldwide.</i></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i style="font-size:10.5pt"> </i></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i style="font-size:10.5pt">The European branch, NAVER LABS Europe, is the biggest industrial AI research center in France and its sister lab, </i><a href="https://naverlabs.com/en/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="font-size:10.5pt"><i>NAVER LABS Korea</i></a><i style="font-size:10.5pt">, is a leading robotics research organization with projects such as indoor and outdoor </i><a href="https://www.naverlabs.com/en/m2" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="font-size:10.5pt"><i>mapping</i></a><i style="font-size:10.5pt">, autonomous </i><a href="https://www.naverlabs.com/en/rookie" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="font-size:10.5pt"><i>service robots</i></a><i style="font-size:10.5pt">, the advanced robot manipulator </i><a href="https://www.naverlabs.com/en/ambidex" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="font-size:10.5pt"><i>AMBIDEX</i></a><i style="font-size:10.5pt">, large-scale </i><a href="https://www.naverlabs.com/en/storyList?keyword=ALIKE&storySeq=" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="font-size:10.5pt"><i>digital twin</i></a><i style="font-size:10.5pt">, and most importantly, </i><a href="https://1784.navercorp.com/en/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="font-size:10.5pt"><i>1784</i></a><i style="font-size:10.5pt">, Korea's first robot friendly building where a fleet of 100 robots fulfil delivery tasks to the employees. 1784 is not only NAVER's new headquarters, it also serves as a testbed for future robotics solutions, all controlled by NAVER LABS' own AI Robot Cloud, </i><a href="https://www.naverlabs.com/en/ARC" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="font-size:10.5pt"><i>ARC</i></a><i style="font-size:10.5pt">.</i></p></div>