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Excited to share this new #podcast episode with Dr. Katherine Dimitropoulou & Tapomayukh "Tapo" Bhattacharjee on their innovative research working with people with disabilities & other stakeholders to develop #robots that can assist with activities of daily living like feeding & dressing. open.spotify.com/episode/0a0vdM…

The EmPRISE Lab is thrilled to announce the PhyRC Challenge, a competition to facilitate innovation in physical robotic caregiving. The competition has two tracks (Track 1: Fixed-based Manipulation for Robot-assisted Dressing and Track 2: Mobile Manipulation for Robot-assisted

Track 1: Fixed-based manipulation for robot-assisted dressing: Assistive dressing is an ADL task during which the caregiver helps the care recipient put on garments. The task setting for the competition considers using a Kinova Gen 3 7-DoF arm to help a human avatar perform the

Track 2: Mobile manipulation for robot-assisted bed bathing: Bed bathing is an ADL task performed during everyday nursing procedures for people with severe mobility limitations to help them maintain hygiene. The task setting for the competition considers full-body bed bathing,

The schedule is as follows: - Registration Deadline: August 31, 2024 - Phase 1 Announcement: Aug 1, 2024 - Phase 1: Aug 1 - Oct 31, 2024 (3 months) - Phase 2 Announcement: Nov 7, 2024 (Top-n teams released) - Phase 2 Preparation: Nov 7, 2024 - May 2025, Teams - Prep for

Want to win your own Stretch? Check out this new challenge from the Cornell EmPRISE Lab !

FLAIR is our most recent work on robot-assisted feeding where we are able to acquire in-the-wild real meals (DoorDash orders, homemade meals, prepared grocery store meals) while catering to a wide variety of user preferences. We have tested FLAIR across 2 different institutions

🚀 Excited to announce the launch of the Simulation Phase (Phase 1) of our challenge! Register by Sep 8 & submit by Oct 31. 🗓️ Participate in one or both of the tracks: Track 1: Fixed-base Manipulation for Robot-assisted Dressing Track 2: Mobile Manipulation for

Our recent work on robot-assisted food acquisition at #IROS2024. Cornell Computer Science Cornell Bowers Computing and Information Science

Exciting news! Sarah Ha presented her paper REPeat: A Real2Sim2Real Approach for Pre-acquisition of Soft Food Items in Robot Assisted Feeding at IROS! Check out these moments from her presentation. For more information check x.com/nekovowo/statu… #IROS2024

Cornell opened it's interdisciplinary Robotics Ph.D. program: news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/1… Do apply: robotics.cornell.edu/graduate/ Deadlines: Dec 1 for AE and ME Dec 15 for CS and ECE Cornell University Cornell Computer Science Cornell Engineering Hadas Kress-Gazit 🪷

We finalized our Phase 2 (Real-world Phase) venue! Our competition proposal was accepted at ICRA 2025 in Atlanta🎉 IEEE ICRA Here’s the timeline: 🗓️ Phase 1 ends: Dec 23, 2024 🗓️ Phase 2 participants announced: Dec 30, 2024 So far, 56 teams are participating, tackling:

🚨 Call for Papers: Physical Caregiving Robots Workshop 🚨 📍 HRI 2025 | Melbourne, Australia 🌏🦘 📄 Submit a 2-page extended abstract on topics related to Physical Caregiving Robots 🔗 Key Links: Website: caregivingrobots.github.io Register interest: forms.gle/JAur9YyV7hiRvz…

Welcome #HRIPioneers2025! Rajat Kumar Jenamani from Cornell University will present their work 'Towards Deployable Physical Caregiving Robots: A Case Study in Mealtime Assistance' at The HRI Conference Read more on Rajat's website: cs.cornell.edu/~rkjenamani

How can a caregiving robot with limited torque help people with mobility limitations and older adults transfer from a hospital bed to their wheelchair? Check out Ruolin Ye's work at HRI The HRI Conference: CART-MPC: Coordinating Assistive Devices for Robot-Assisted Transferring

How can caregiving robots adapt their control policies across people with diverse mobility limitations, balancing robot assistance with user agency in action across various tasks? Check out Ziang Liu et al.'s work EmPRISE Lab Cornell Bowers Computing and Information Science: GRACE: Generalizing Robot-Assisted

Congratulations to EmPRISE Lab for winning the Unity for Humanity Grant Award ( unity.com/blog/announcin… ) with our RCareWorld project. All credit goes to Ruolin Ye for leading this project!

Congrats Rohan Banerjee and the team on getting nominated for Best paper award at #ICRA2025 for their work on “To ask or not to ask: Human-in-the-loop contextual bandits with applications in robot-assisted feeding”. Check out his presentation in Room 302 on Tuesday at the Awards

Happy to share a new preprint: "Coloring Between the Lines: Personalization in the Null Space of Planning Constraints" w/ Rajat Kumar Jenamani, Ziang Liu, Ben Dodson, and Tapomayukh "Tapo" Bhattacharjee. TLDR: We propose a method for continual, flexible, active, and safe robot personalization. Links 👇

Excited to share our work on continual, flexible, active, and safe robot personalization w/ Tom Silver, Ziang Liu, Ben Dodson & Tapomayukh "Tapo" Bhattacharjee. Also: Tom Silver is starting a lab at Princeton!! I HIGHLY recommend joining — thoughtful, kind, and an absolute joy to work with!