Ashley Herbert

Past Member

Ashley Herbert

B.S. Honors Thesis Student

ashleyherbert@usf.edu

10/4/2024→9/30/2025


Hello! I’m Ashley Herbert, a senior undergraduate majoring in Medical Biology with a strong passion for transforming healthcare for both patients and providers. My interest in robotics began during an internship in a dental office where I saw how robotics could be used to revolutionize dental practice.

Currently, I am working on an interdisciplinary thesis that explores the integration of robotics in the current world of healthcare, specifically in dentistry. I am looking forward to studying the impacts of human-robot interactions and how this is shaping what robotics looks like now and in the future.

— 10/4/2024


Publications

Ashley Herbert, Yixi Chen, Hong Wang, Minh Ha Pham, and Zhao Han

Understanding Dentists’ and Patients’ Perspectives on Dentistry Robots: An Exploratory Study in Dentist-Patient-Robot Interaction

The 35th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2026)

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2026

News

RO-MAN 2026 Full Paper Acceptance

Our full paper was accepted to IEEE RO-MAN 2026: “Understanding Dentists? and Patients? Perspectives on Dentistry Robots: An Exploratory Study in Dentist-Patient-Robot Interaction”! Congrats to Ashley, Yixi, Hong, and Minh Ha!

Mid-Fall Lab Lunch

We just had our mid-fall lab lunch. German style!

(Sorry that Maria, Felix, and Jonathan were unable to join!)

B.S. Honors student Ashley Herbert (10/4), Jonathan Wong (10/17), and Chi Vo (10/28) have joined the RARE lab. Ashley will work on a thesis on robotics & dentistry. Jonathan will focus on robotics & AR/VR. Chi Vo will LLM-enabled storytelling robots. Welcome!