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Dr. Kaiyu Hang has been selected by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to receive the award of ASME Rising Star of Mechanical Engineering in recognition of his contributions to robotic manipulation.

We are excited to announce that our lab member, Hayden Webb, has placed 3rd place in the prestigious “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 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IEEE/RSJ IROS) 2024. Check out the video!

Our paper “UNO Push: Unified Nonprehensile Object Pushing via Non-Parametric Estimation and Model Predictive Control” has been accepted by IEEE/RSJ IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IEEE/RSJ IROS) 2024.

We are thrilled to announce that our esteemed lab member, Howard Qian, has been awarded the prestigious “Distinction in Research and Creative Works” by Rice University. This is a university honor for graduating students that will be granted at Commencement and will appear on recipients’ transcripts and diplomas.

Our paper “RISeg: Robot Interactive Object Segmentation via Body Frame-Invariant Features” has been accepted by IEEE-RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IEEE-RAS ICRA). Check out the video! RISeg was also recently accepted to the “3DVRM workshop” at ICRA!

We are organizing the 9th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) at IEEE-RAS ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan, on May 13-17. Dr. Hang is the lead organizer of the In-Hand Manipulation Competition (Sub-Track 2) within the Essential Skill Track.

Kaiyu Hang has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to develop robots that can physically interact with the world through compliance- and motion-based manipulation funnels.

Rice University Computer Scientists presented research on enabling robots to rearrange objects without grasping them at the 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

Our paper “Non-Parametric Self-Identification and Model Predictive Control of Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation” has been accepted by IEEE/RSJ IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IEEE/RSJ IROS). Check out the video!