RARE Lab’s projectives work on mitigating robot abuse was presented at the USF Graduate Student Research Symposium. Good job and great practice, Ridhima!
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
RARE Lab’s four works were presented at the renowned HRI conference in Australia!
Undergraduate students Tuan Khang Phan (2/12), Aarav Jain (2/23), Paramveer Singh Bhele (2/25), Gavin Wilson (2/26), Thuc Anh Nguyen (3/11), Grant Henderson (3/24) have joined the lab. Khang will work on the fog screen-robot system. Aarav, Param, and Gavin will work on protectives against robot abuse. Anh will work on FoV indicators. Grant will work on explainable foundational models. Welcome!
RARE Lab’s fog machine controller work was accepted to the 8th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed-Reality for Human-Robot Interactions (VAM-HRI) at HRI 2025! Congrats to Adrian Lozada and Michael Klein!
RARE Lab’s robot vision capability work leveraging familiar experiences was accepted to the “Explainability for Human-Robot Collaboration: Real-World Concerns” Workshop (X-HRI) at HRI 2025! Congrats to Hong Wang and Maria Julia Vidal!
RARE Lab’s projectives work on mitigating robot abuse was accepted to the DEI-HRI workshop at HRI 2025! Ridhima Phatak will be on the DEI Student Pioneers panel, presenting the work followed by a panel discussion on research methodologies and applying DEI dimensions!
Research
Research focuses on interdisciplinary human-robot interaction (HRI), involving robotics, augmented reality (AR), AI, cognitive science, and psychology… See Research Overview →
