RARE Lab’s Bloom robot with an older-adults application, our preliminary work, was presented at the OneUSF Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium! Good job, Andrew, Rex, and Sofia!
Reality, Autonomy, and Robot Experience (RARE) Lab
Prof. Zhao Han leads the RARE lab at the University of South Florida in the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing.
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
June is here, and Summer starts. Welcome, new and old lab members!
Congrats, Xiangfei Kong, for the successful defense of her MS thesis!!
We presented RARE Lab’s preliminary works on explainable robot learning and storytelling robot at the top robotics conference, ICRA 2025, in Atlanta. Stay tuned for our full papers and more!
Our interdisciplinary grant, “The Center for Biological and Food Innovations in AI and Robotics for Children’s Nutrition and Health (Bio-FAIRCH),” has been awarded $300,000 for USF Interdisciplinary Center Preparation Grants Full Proposal (ICPGs). Congrats to Dr. Tingting Zhang and all investigators!
Spring concludes with a good lab gathering. Italy style! (Sorry that not all could come!)
RARE Lab’s multimodal storytelling social robot preliminary work was accepted to the ICRA 2025 Workshop on Foundation Models and Neuro-Symbolic AI for Robotics. Congrats to Tammy, Chi, Felix, and Suyog!
Research
Research focuses on interdisciplinary human-robot interaction (HRI), involving robotics, AI, augmented reality (AR), cognitive science, and psychology… See Research Overview →
