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The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Cyprus, within the framework of its lecture series ENGiTalks, invites you to the annual public lecture entitled “Teaching Robotics to See: Are We There Yet?”. The lecture will take place on which will take place on Wednesday, 19 November 2025, at 18:30, at the new premises of the Faculty of Engineering on the University Campus (POL10, Amphitheatre B102 “Elias Kyriakides”).
The keynote speaker is Dr. Margarita Chli, distinguished Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering, and Director of the Vision for Robotics Lab, jointly based at the University of Cyprus and ETH Zurich.
During her talk, Dr. Chli will address key issues related to robotic vision and its modern applications, exploring fundamental questions on how robots perceive visually, the open challenges that remain, and the directions future research should take to overcome them.
A welcome address will be delivered by the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Cyprus, Professor Marina Neophytou, while the event will be addressed by the President of Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts, Professor Achilles C. Emilianides.
The lecture will be delivered in English and is open to the public. Registration is required by 18 November 2025 at the following link.
Speaker’s Bio
Dr. Margarita Chli is a leading researcher in robotic vision and autonomous systems, renowned for pioneering the world’s first vision-based autonomous flight of a small drone and the first collaborative monocular SLAM demonstration for a swarm of small drones. After a successful tenure at ETH Zurich, she joined the University of Cyprus in 2023, having been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant to further advance her team’s groundbreaking research in robotic perception. Her work has earned her recognition as one of the most highly cited researchers in her field for her career stage. In 2025, she received the Honorary Award of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts, acknowledging her pioneering contributions and global influence in robotic vision. Professor Chli has been an invited keynote speaker at leading international venues, including the World Economic Forum in Davos, TEDx, and ICRA, and was featured in Robohub’s “25 Women in Robotics You Need to Know About” (2016). Her research continues to shape the future of autonomous systems through advances in visual perception, multi-robot collaboration, and intelligent flight technologies.
For more information, please contact the Faculty of Engineering at tel. +357 22894431 or via email .
