Congrats to Hong and Ridhima on the paper acceptance to the International Journal of Social Robotics, the No. 1 HRI journal, per Google Scholar, with a 25% (110/483) acceptance rate: Indicating Robot Vision Capabilities with Augmented Reality!
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
One LBR and one Interactivity paper were accepted to HRI 2026!
Congrats Hong & Bao on “Evaluating Dynamic Surface Compensation for Robots with Projected AR” (LBR) & Bloom team (Thuc Anh, Div, Sebastian, Hong et al.) on “Bloom Preview: A Low-Cost LLM-Powered Social Robot” (interactivity)!
Dr. Zhao Han will serve as an associate editor (AE) for RO-MAN 2026!
“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!
Research
Research focuses on interdisciplinary human-robot interaction (HRI), involving robotics, AI, augmented reality (AR), cognitive science, and psychology… See Research Overview →
Recent Publications
ICRA 2025 HCRL
