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A robot may be unable to complete a task when limited by its morphology. Remarkably, people and some animals can get around this by not only using but also *designing* tools. We explore whether robots can also do this in our latest work! 🌐robotic-tool-design.github.io 🧵👇

After 3+ years, today is the day that my book “The Worlds I See” gets to see the world itself. It is a science memoir of the intertwining histories of me becoming an #AI scientist, and the making of the modern AI itself. All versions are now on Amazon a.co/d/fYKf74L 1/

Congrats Rajat Kumar Jenamani, Ziang Liu and the team on getting nominated for best paper award at #HRI2024 for their work on inside-mouth bite transfer for people with severe mobility limitations. People with severe mobility conditions cannot bend their neck to take a bite from a

And, we won the Best Demo Award as well! So proud of my students Rajat Kumar Jenamani Ziang Liu and collaborators at UW, Ethan K Gordon and Amal Nanavati, all of whom were demoing the entire system live and feeding people The HRI Conference #HRI2024 in the exhibition hall :-)

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