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What does it take to cook a meal with a humanoid robot? Students Steve Han, Mingyo Seo, Hye-Young Chung, Kyutae Sim, Yifan Xu, Yuke Zhu, Seung Hyeon Bang and Carlos Gonzalez, myself and Prof. Yuke Zhu team up to explore this question as well as how we work together as a team from a Team Science perspective.

We had a fantastic year with many talented students in our lab. We said goodbye to UT MS student Mehar Jaiswal and MS visiting student Johannes Drexler from TUM. We look forward to the next generation of students and visitors to come in the summer and fall.

 

We are very pleased to hear that our former PhD student will become assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Texas A&M starting next Fall. Huge congratulations Gray!

His most notable work in the lab was to design a computational framework for strength augmentation of lower body exoskeletons and deploy it in the SAGIT 5 exoskeleton system.

Seung Hyeon and Carlos explore more precise whole-body control capabilities using Whole-Body Impulse Control which combines Inverse Kinematic and Inverse Dynamic controllers:

Graduate and undergraduate students perform teleoperate tasks to collect data for imitation learning using our DRACO3 humanoid robot.

Kyle had a great time presented his workshop paper on “Learning Contact-based Navigation in Crowds” at the 2nd Workshop on Human-Interactive Robot Learning (HIRL 2023) at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

LINK TO PAPER

 

Friends and colleagues. The IEEE-RAS Humanoids 2023 website is up and running! It will be held in Austin, USA on December 12-14. Note that the paper deadline is July 1st. We look forward to sharing this experience with academics and industry within the field of humanoids and human-centered robots. Additional details on the particular topics for the conference will be posted soon.

Click on the image to be directed to the Humanoids 2023 Website.

Apptronik, a spin-off of our lab is featured in IEEE Spectrum focusing on robots to perform dull, dirty, and dangerous tasks. Congratulations Nick Paine and Appttronik team! Click on the image below for a link to the article.

 

 

 

Our lab got three papers accepted for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in London 2023. Congratulations to students Mingyo Seo, Jeeeun Lee, Ryan Gupta, Jaemin Lee, and collaborators! Click on the images below to access pre-prints of the papers.

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Our new NSF Growing Convergent Research project focusing on Community Embedded Robotics had several spotlights on the news this month, e.g.

Click here for a link to USA Today’s news coverage

See below for video coverage from KVUE: