RARE Lab’s humanoid work in progress on “Towards Leveraging Humans’ Implicit Interaction Cues for Fluent Human-Humanoid Interaction” was accepted to the ICRA 2026 Workshop “Shared Challenges in Human-Centered and Resilient Robotic Autonomy!” Congrats, Yixi!
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
RARE Lab undergraduate students Alina and Stuti presented at the Second Bellini College REU Symposium!
RARE lab presented 4 posters at the CITA Poster Session!
Spring is summer in Tampa–The RARE lab just had yet another lab lunch!
Our HRI 2026 paper received the Theory Paper Honourable Mention award (21/128; top 16%)!
Research
Research focuses on interdisciplinary human-robot interaction (HRI), involving robotics, AI, augmented reality (AR), cognitive science, and psychology… See Research Overview →
