Work Together. Create Smart Machines. Serve Society. 🤖 The University of Michigan Robotics Department.
Ann Arbor, MI
Joined August 2017
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Michigan Robotics retweeted
SKF is accepted for @NeurIPSConf as spotlight!
Wow, I didn't expect it. Kudos to AC and reviewers for valuing basic research. We feel extra rewarded and motivated!
A tour de force by my student Kaito Iwasaki and collaborators for nonlinear non-Gaussian Bayesian filtering, SKF.
Moment representation + score matching -> solving linear systems. It exactly recovers information from KF for linear-Gaussian systems.
arxiv.org/abs/2605.16644
Michigan Robotics retweeted
NEW ARTICLE: “Small robot propulsion: low-power twisting enables hopping, swimming.”
The mechanism works on challenging surfaces such as slippery cloth and grass-covered ground, producing frog-like motion. news.engin.umich.edu/2026/09…
Michigan Robotics retweeted
Congrats to @XinYe_Eva for her paper receiving the HFES HART Best Student Paper Runner-Up Award!
#HFES2026 @HFES @umsi @UMRobotics #securityrobot
Congrats @XinYe_Eva on a new HFES paper — Trusting Security Robotic Authority
#HFES2026 @HFES
#Robots #Trust @umsi @HRI_Conference @ieeeras @BlackInRobotics @UMRobotics
doi.org/10.1177/107118132614… #HRI
Michigan Robotics retweeted
Big congrats to @XinYe_Eva on our new paper, Mitigating Human–Security Robot Conflict Through Fairness. We found that distributive and informational fairness reduce conflict and boost security robot acceptance.
@umsi @UMRobotics @BlackInRobotics
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Michigan Robotics retweeted
Congrats to MichealNayebare @kwameporterrob1 @roneglash @audreygbennett @guzdial
New paper: "Understanding online conversations through fractal dimension."
@umsi @UMichiganNews @BlackInRobotics @UMRobotics
link.springer.com/article/10…
Michigan Robotics retweeted
We just hit 1000 users on our Open Robotics @zulip server.
Zulip is our open source alternative to Discord.
We migrated late last year and the experience has been nothing short of fantastic; no bots, no spam, and threaded conversations!
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Michigan Robotics retweeted
Healthcare robots for older adults won’t succeed on novelty alone — design matters. Read our new article on the topic! @CarolQiaoning @Jessie_YangXi @umsi @BlackInRobotics @UMRobotics @ieeeras @HRI_Conference
doi.org/10.1007/s12369-026-0…
Michigan Robotics retweeted
We locally calibrate uncertainty in approximate dynamics models! By conditioning on latent observation embeddings, states, and actions, we enable uncertainty-aware planning in u̲n̲s̲e̲e̲n̲ test environments!
More on this @wafr_conf paper w/ @TheLuisMarques @UMRobotics below ⬇
Michigan Robotics retweeted
Stroke remains a leading cause of adult disability. It is responsible for high personal and public costs, with an annual total of $56.2 billion in the United States, including the cost of acute hospital care, rehabilitation, and days of missed work. professional.heart.org/en/sc…
Rehabilitation plays a key role in reducing disability and promoting quality of life after stroke.
The goal of rehabilitation is for patients with stroke to be restored as closely as possible to normal form
and independent functioning, minimizing required assistance and promoting a high quality of life.
✍🏼@alicen_whitaker @CVCatMCW @NeuroscienceMCW @MedicalCollege @dukemedschool @duke_Oto @duke_neurology @duke_brain @dukehealth @AbilityLab @uutah @NeuRRoLab @UMichPMR @umichmedicine @UMichResearch @UMKines @umflintdpt @UMRobotics
@UMneurosciences @UMBME @umichme @IowaPT
Michigan Robotics retweeted
What if robot hands could acquire dexterity once, then reuse it to learn downstream tasks much faster?
Introducing ADEPT: a pre-training & post-training paradigm using RL entirely in sim, then zero-shot deploying visuo-tactile policies in the real world.
🔗adept-dexterity.github.io with Dex team @NVIDIAAI
Michigan Robotics retweeted
Robotics at University of Michigan is on 🔥!
Plus, it's completely open-sourced and free.
@UMRobotics put their entire robotics program on GitHub.
Everything. Code. Textbooks. Examples. Simulations.
That's what inside:
→ ROB 101: Computational Linear Algebra. Foundation course on the math that actually powers robots.
→ ROB 201: Calculus for the Modern Engineer. They wrote a textbook from scratch (GPL-licensed, on GitHub) because standard calculus doesn't address what engineers need.
→ ROB 204: Introduction to Human-Robot Systems. How humans and robots actually interact.
→ ROB 311: How to Build Robots and Make Them Move. The gap between theory and practice.
→ ROB 501: Mathematics for Robotics. Graduate-level rigor with code examples and interactive Jupyter notebooks.
If you want to learn robotics math from one of the world's best robotics departments, it's free.
Over 2,800 GitHub stars on the math courses alone.
Thousands of people learning robotics, just because it's open for everyone :)
This is how you build the next generation of roboticists.
🔗 Access it here: github.com/michiganrobotics
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Michigan Robotics retweeted
After 4 wonderful years, I'm signing off from NVIDIA. Working at NVIDIA's Seattle Robotics Lab was an absolute pleasure. Amazing collaborators, a great research environment, and friendships I'll keep for life.
Before I start at @UMRobotics next year, I'm joining @proceptionAI to lead the effort to build the dexterous manipulation learning stack. Proception is a full-stack
robotics startup that is already shipping robot hands and data-collection gloves.
I believe solving dexterous manipulation requires co-designing the entire stack: hardware, software, and AI. Proception is one of the few places where you can
actually do that.
We're building the best dexterous manipulation system in the world — hands, data, and policies together. If that's the problem you want to work on, come build with us. Links below.
Michigan Robotics retweeted
New Research: "Bite-Bot: A robo-physical model for studying snake envenomation" 🐍
👉🔗 Learn more about the development from U-M ME and @UMRobotics: bit.ly/3UanGGF
ALT Journal cover for Integrative and Comparative Biology, a journal of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Cover features a snake with large fangs exposed, and three smaller illustrations of fangs puncturing into layers of tissue.
ALT The bite-bot robo-physical model. The model has a swing arm with a fang at its end, which sits above a small piece of equipment that holds a sponge. The model's height is adjustable. Image text: "Bite-Bot can independently vary: Venom pressure, pressure duration, venom viscosity, fang size, fang angle, fang shape, fang canaliculation state, bite force, bite speed."
ALT Three 3D-printed snake fangs. On the far left, the fang is labeled hollow. In the middle, the fang is labeled grooved. On the right, the fang is labeled unmodified.
Michigan Robotics retweeted
Mixed-Agent Museum Tour Guide Design Improves Gendered Learning Outcomes and Visitor Preferences
Annette M. Masterson, Wonse Jo, Helena C. Sieh, Lionel P. Robert,, Dawn Tilbury
arxiv.org/abs/2607.14468 [𝚌𝚜.𝚁𝙾 𝚌𝚜.𝙼𝙰 𝚎𝚎𝚜𝚜.𝚂𝚈]
ALT Robots are increasingly integrated into everyday contexts, including museums, where they can both entertain and educate visitors. To enhance visitor experience and engagement, we present a novel mixed-agent tour guide system that combines a physical robot with a projected virtual agent that actively participates in the tour through conversation and interaction, achieving the interaction richness of two mobile agents from a single platform. We validate the system through a within-subjects study with 30 participants to assess engagement, quality of experience, and learning performance. Participants experienced different conversational styles and agent configurations, and data were collected via surveys, behavioral sensors, and interviews. Results showed that engagement and quality of experience remained consistent across conditions. Learning performance revealed a significant gender-moderated difference: the mixed-agent conditions improved learning performance for female participants. Th
Michigan Robotics retweeted
Researchers from @UMRobotics and @umichme created a modular robot capable of independently varying parameters that determine the outcomes of envenomation (the process by which venom is injected via the bite or sting of an animal). View the #DeepBlueData: doi.org/10.7302/1zfk-5q27
ALT Black and white snake
Michigan Robotics retweeted
HydroShear is a new physics-based simulator that teaches robots how to use their sense of touch to perform complex manipulation tasks, in a way that transfers seamlessly to the real world. @UMRobotics amazon.science/blog/amazon-a…
Michigan Robotics retweeted
Congrats @XinYe_Eva on a new HFES paper — Trusting Security Robotic Authority
#HFES2026 @HFES
#Robots #Trust @umsi @HRI_Conference @ieeeras @BlackInRobotics @UMRobotics
doi.org/10.1177/107118132614… #HRI
Michigan Robotics retweeted
Thrilled to share that I'll be joining the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2027!
My lab will work on Robot Learning, Dexterous Manipulation, Robot Foundation Models & 3D Perception. I'm looking for students to join me. Please apply and reach out.
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Michigan Robotics retweeted
I'll be joining @UMRobotics with an affiliation in CS (@UMichCSE).
None of this would have been possible without my advisor @jiadeng , my mentors Dieter Fox and @abhishekunique7, and the constant love and support of my family. Thank you all!
I can't wait to get started. More on what's next soon!
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Michigan Robotics retweeted
Our work was just published in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine!
We studied professional painters painting with a robot and then with another painter. Is it the same to create a painting with a robot compared to a human? What is different? 🧿
@ieeeras @UMRobotics
