📢 Stéphane's successful PhD dissertation defense!!

📑 Paper on Grounding Language for Sequential Resaoning published at EMNLP 2025!

ReSeeding Latent States for Sequential Language Understanding

📑 Paper on Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Human-Agent Interaction published at IJCAI 2025!

Implicitly Aligning Humans and Autonomous Agents through Shared Task Abstractions

📑 Paper on multi-agent zero-shot coordination presented at RSS Workshop 2025!

Open-source code for N-player (N>=2) Overcooked and method for zero-shot coordination between teams of agents.

✍️ Blog post about organizing academic workshops

Practical tips for first-time workshop organizers based on our experience at RSS.

📑 Paper on learning preferences for robot routing presented at RSS Workshop!

We introduce a method for learning tradeoffs in distance, time, and terrain type for delivery robots.

📑 Paper on Employing Laban Shape to generate functionally and emotionally expressive trajectories on robotic manipulators accepted to ROMAN 2025!

Utilizing Laban Effort and Laban Shape to generate Happy, Sad, Shy, Angry and Hesitant manipulator trajectories.

💰 Paid Summer Research Opportunities for Students

Join us for a paid summer position to conduct cutting-edge research.

📑 Paper on pattern-aware conventions to improve human-robot teaming accepted to ACM's Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction!

Utilize patterns to improve robot predictability for human-robot teaming

🚀 The Virtues of Laziness: Multi-Query Kinodynamic Motion Planning with Lazy Methods

Leverage lazy propagation and collision checking methods for kinodynamic motion planning

📑 Paper on Lazy Methods for Kinodynamic Motion Planning accepted to ICRA 2024!

Leveraging lazy propagation and collision checking for kinodynamic planning

📑 Paper on workspace optimization to improve human motion prediction accepted to HRI 2024!

Configure workspace to improve human legibility

📑 Paper on motion planning for contact published at IROS 2023!

CAT-RRT Motion Planning that Admits Contact One Link at a Time

🚀 Hierarchical structures for human-agent interaction

Aligning humans and agents at a cognitive and behavioral level

💰 $1.8M award to investigate use of robots in organic chemistry laboratories!!

💰 Office of Naval Research awards $500k to research human-robot co-training!!

💰 Gilberto Briscoe-Martinez awarded NASA NSTGRO Fellowship!!

🎉 Robotics Summer Camp Outreach Program!

Or, how we brought robotics to children in the community.

📑 Paper on just-in-time robotic kitting accepted to RO-MAN 2022!

Just-in-time kit delivery using task segmentation and scheduling

📷 Group picture! Spring 2022 semester

🚀 PokeRRT: Poking as a Skill and Failure Recovery Tactic for Planar Non-Prehensile Manipulation

Non-prehensile manipulation modeling and planning

📑 Paper on Nonprehensile Manipulation Planning accepted to RA-L + ICRA 2022!

Poking as a skill and failure recovery tactic

💰 HIRO Group awarded $2M to research robot behavior conditioned by second order mental models!

🚀 Grounding Language through Experiences

Using experiences to approach a human-like understanding of language

📑 Two papers accepted at IROS 2021!

Sensing and Control for robots to operate in close proximity with people

💰 HIRO Group selected to be part of ARL's Cycle 3 STRONG program!

📢 Congratulations to Guohui for his successful PhD dissertation defense!!

💰 Nataliya Nechyporenko selected for prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!!

📑 Intersectional and Accessible AI technologies for racially minoritized students at HRI 2021!

Interdisciplinary research team funded by CU's EER-AIL IRT

📑 Paper on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning accepted at IROS 2020!

Achieving shared goals with Stackelberg learning in cooperative control

💰 HIRO Group part of the $20M NSF AI Institute on Student-AI Teaming!

CU to lead innovative research at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Education

💰 Engineering Education and AI-Augmented Learning IRT

New Interdisciplinary Research Theme launched with significant internal funding to help advance CU Engineering's long-term research vision

🚀 Flexible Whole-Body Artificial Skin for Collaborative Robotics

🚀 Dexterous Robotic Manipulation and Skill Acquisition

Non-prehensile manipulation modeling and planning

🦾 Robotic skin research collaboration

Towards more collaborative and naturally interactive robots

📷 Group picture! Fall 2019 semester

📷 Group picture! Spring 2019 semester

💰 HIRO Group awarded a RIO Seed Grant!

🚀 The Virtues of Laziness: Multi-Query Kinodynamic Motion Planning with Lazy Methods

Leverage lazy propagation and collision checking methods for kinodynamic motion planning

🚀 Hierarchical structures for human-agent interaction

Aligning humans and agents at a cognitive and behavioral level

🚀 PokeRRT: Poking as a Skill and Failure Recovery Tactic for Planar Non-Prehensile Manipulation

Non-prehensile manipulation modeling and planning

🚀 Grounding Language through Experiences

Using experiences to approach a human-like understanding of language

🚀 Flexible Whole-Body Artificial Skin for Collaborative Robotics

🚀 Dexterous Robotic Manipulation and Skill Acquisition

Non-prehensile manipulation modeling and planning