Happy to share that our work on 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 has been accepted to #ICRA2026!

A huge thank you to everybody in the DAIR Lab and my co-authors Bruke Baraki, Hien Bui, and @michaelposa.bsky.social

Check out more details at dairlab.github.io/activetactile/

See you in Vienna! 🇦🇹 🎻

Ethan K. Gordon, Bruke Baraki, Hien Bui, Michael Posa
Active Tactile Exploration for Rigid Body Pose and Shape Estimation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13595

📢 Call for Abstracts: join our Workshop on Human-Robot Contact and Manipulation #HRCM at #RSS2025 in LA!

🤖 We're looking to unite expertise across #controltheory, contact-modeling, haptics, tactile sensing, soft robotics, and physical #HRI!

🔗 Full info: hrcm-workshop.github.io/2025
📆 Due May 18

The Workshop on Human-Robot Contact and Manipulation (HRCM) at RSS 2025 at USC in LA seeks to unite expertise from the haptics/tactile sensing, contact-rich control, and pHRI communities.

Have relevant work? Submit your 2-page abstracts by May 4!

More info:
hrcm-workshop.github.io/2025/

Lessons Learned from Designing and Evaluating a Robot-Assisted Feeding System for Out-of-Lab Use [Paper] [Supplemental Materials]

Excited to finally share our robot-assisted feeding system for those with mobility impairments that has finally been demonstrated both in the home and in public.

sites.google.com/view/robot-f...

Just accepted into #HRI #HRI2025! Proud of the whole team at robotfeeding.io 🧪

Just graduated with my PhD! Replying to be added if roboticists / robotics research images are okay.

PhD lab: personalrobotics.cs.washington.edu/people/

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