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Jul 03, 2026 Checkout Multisensory Continual Learning (MuSe) for how we use a small amount of force data to unlock force-aware behavior on pretraining tasks.
May 26, 2026 I joined the NVIDIA GEAR Lab as a scientist.
May 05, 2026 I accepted the faculty offer from UT Austin CS and will start in Fall 2027.
Apr 27, 2026 Minimalist Compliance Control is accepted by RSS 2026.
Jan 31, 2026 UMI-FT is accepted by ICRA 2026.
Sep 29, 2025 DexUMI was selected as a best paper finalist at CoRL 2025!
Sep 27, 2025 CR-DAgger won the best paper award at the CoRL 2025 Human to Robot (H2R) workshop!
May 25, 2025 I gave an invited talk “Empower Robot Learning with Model-based Manipulation” at the Beyond Pick and Place workshop at ICRA 2025. Recording is available here.
May 21, 2025 Adaptive Compliance Policy won the best paper award at the ICRA 2025 Contact-rich Manipulation workshop.
Feb 19, 2025 I gave a lecture on “Introduction to Compliance Control” at Stanford EE/CS 381. Slides are available here.
Jan 17, 2025 My invited talk at the Stanford Robotics Seminar was released. This talk is an overview of my work on compliant manipulation.
Jun 26, 2024 Our paper simPLE: a visuotactile method learned in simulation to precisely pick, localize, regrasp, and place objects has been published at Science Robotics.