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Our paper "Object-Centric Kinodynamic Planning for Nonprehensile Robot Rearrangement Manipulation" has been accepted by TRO
Our paper "Collision-Inclusive Manipulation Planning for Occluded Object Grasping via Compliant Robot Motions" has been accepted by RA-L
5 papers accepted to IEEE/RSJ IROS 2025
Ben Leebron has Been Awarded "Distinction in Research and Creative Works" by Rice University
Our paper "Caging in Time, A Framework for Robust Object Manipulation under Uncertainties and Limited Robot Perception" has been accepted by IJRR
Our paper "Robust Peg-in-Hole Assembly under Uncertainties via Compliant and Interactive Contact-Rich Manipulation" has been accepted by RSS 2025
Dr. Kaiyu Hang has Been Awarded ASME Rising Star of Mechanical Engineering
Hayden Webb won 3rd place in the "Student Mechanism and Robotics Design Competition" at the 2024 ASME IDETC
Our Paper "Interactive Robot-Environment Self-Calibration via Compliant Exploratory Actions" has been accepted by IEEE/RSJ IROS 2024
Our Paper "UNO Push, Unified Nonprehensile Object Pushing via Non-Parametric Estimation and Model Predictive Control" has been accepted by IEEE/RSJ IROS 2024
Howard Qian has been Awarded "Distinction in Research and Creative Works" by Rice University
Our Paper "RISeg, Robot Interactive Object Segmentation via Body Frame-Invariant Features" has been accepted by IEEE-RAS ICRA 2024, as well as its 3DVRM workshop
In-Hand Manipulation Competition in the 9th RGMC
National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Rice CS team helps robots rearrange objects without gripping them
Our Paper "Non-Parametric Self-Identification and Model Predictive Control of Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation" has been accepted by IEEE/RSJ IROS
Our Paper "Self-Supervised Unseen Object Instance Segmentation via Long-Term Robot Interaction" has been accepted by RSS 2023
Workshop on "Compliant Robot Manipulation: Challenges and New Opportunities" in IEEE-RAS ICRA 2023
Our Paper "Kinodynamic Rapidly-exploring Random Forest for Rearrangement-Based Nonprehensile Manipulation" has been accepted by IEEE-RAS ICRA 2023
Robot Self-Identification has been selected by Science Robotics as the Top 5 Editor's Picks of 2021