Dr. Zhao Han was invited to talk about the benefits of REU from his extensive mentoring experience. Vidhi, Grant, Jasmine, Alissa, Deekshita, and Sebastian presented posters!
Reality, Autonomy, and Robot Experience (RARE) Lab
Prof. Zhao Han leads the RARE lab in the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing at the University of South Florida.
Mission
Our mission is to solve the grand challenges in human-centered robotics by designing and studying preferred robot interactions and capable robotic systems powered by AI.
Vision
We envision an era of interactive robots that provide superior robot experiences for humans to interact, collaborate, team up, and live with.
News
“The RUSH Checklist: A Standardized Framework for Reporting User Studies in Human-Robot Interaction” has been accepted to the 2026 ACM/IEEE HRI conference. See you in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK!
The end of ¼ century marks the start of Spring, which we gather and celebrate at another lab lunch!
Aired on TV (FOX13 Tampa Bay), we are glad to engage the public with our in-part NSF-funded research!
Watch it or read the short news article.
RARE Lab’s NSF-funded projected-AR for robotics project is being featured for half a month on the USF homepage for a week. Read it here!
Our paper “Givenness hierarchy theoretic sequencing of robot task instructions“ was just published in the top HRI journal, “Frontiers in Robotics and AI!”
Dr. Zhao Han serves as an Associate Editor for ICRA 2026.
Research
Research focuses on interdisciplinary human-robot interaction (HRI), involving robotics, AI, augmented reality (AR), cognitive science, and psychology… See Research Overview →
