Undergraduate student James Ocampo has joined the RARE Lab and will work at the intersection of augmented reality and robotics. Welcome!
Reality, Autonomy, and Robot Experience (RARE) Lab
Prof. Zhao Han founded the RARE lab in August 2023 at the University of South Florida in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the College of Engineering.
Mission
Our mission is to tackle the grand challenges to bring and retain robots’ benefits to our society by designing and evaluating understandable robot interactions and capable robotic systems.
Vision
We envision an era of robots that provide superior robot experiences for humans to interact, collaborate, team up, and live with.
News
Congrats to Adrian Lozada for participation in the CRA-WP Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU)! With the stipend and travel funding, Adrian will be mentored by Dr. Zhao Han this summer in the RARE lab.
Congrats to Tammy Do and Liam Ha for presenting their work on robots for mental health at the 2024 OneUSF Undergraduate Research Conference!
RARE Lab went to the top VR/AR conference—IEEE VR ’24! Hong Wang presented a poster submission on clarifying a robot’s physical vision capability.
After just six months, RARE Lab started strong at HRI 2024! Uthman Tijani, Hong Wang, and Xiangfei Kong presented the lab’s works [1, 2, 3]. Dr. Zhao Han gave a keynote.
RARE Lab participated Innovation Fest outreach event! Hong Wang showcased our research on indicating a robot’s vision capability with a Pepper robot.
Research
Research focuses on interdisciplinary human-robot interaction (HRI), involving robotics, augmented reality (AR), AI, cognitive science, and psychology… See Research Overview →
