Ph.D. students Jingjing Li and Yixi Chen joined the RARE Lab. Welcome!
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
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $411,578 to Dr. Zhao Han (PI) for “Collaborative Research: FRR: Enabling Robots with Adaptive Projector-Based AR in Dynamic Environments” with Dr. Arie Kaufman from Stony Brook University!
Congrats to RARE Lab PhD student Xiangfei Kong on being awarded the Rada Scholarship in Al and Healthcare for the 2025-2026 school year!
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!
Research
Research focuses on interdisciplinary human-robot interaction (HRI), involving robotics, AI, augmented reality (AR), cognitive science, and psychology… See Research Overview →
