Learn about RARE Lab’s research areas, robot platforms, and projects.
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Developing and evaluating understandable robot interactions with humans
Robotics
Developing capable robotic systems for human environments with navigation, perception, and manipulation
AI and Cognitive Science
Developing human-centered machine learning algorithms and cognitive models to facilitate HRI
Augmented Reality (AR)
Developing headworn and scalable projected AR for situated visualization
Research Areas
Main research areas include
- robot explanations for transparent robotics systems
- augmented reality (AR) for situated robot communication/visualization
- collaborative mobile manipulation as a real-world evaluation testbed
- computational cognitive modeling for familiar interactions with humans
Explore Publications
Artificial Intelligence (AI) (9) Assistive Robotics (4) Augmented Reality (AR) (14) Cloud Computing (1) Cognitive Robotics (8) Data Collection (1) Data Mining (4) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (2) Explainable AI (XAI) (15) Hardware (5) Human-Robot Handovers (4) Mental Workload (2) Mobile Manipulation (6) Natural Language Generation (8) References (12) Reproducibility (2) Robot Ethics (2) Robot Explanation (16) Robot Failures (7) Robot Task Representation (5) Teleoperation (1) Virtual Reality (VR) (1) Visualization (5)
Robot Platforms
Fetch
The 1.1-1.5m mobile manipulator
Pepper
The 1.2m humanoid robot
Misty
The 35cm wheeled robot
Jibo
The 28cm social robot
Projects
Mid-Air Projection for Robot Communication
2023/8 ->
How can a robot communicate by projecting visualizations in the air when no flat surface exists?
Explaining Robots’ Vision Capabilities
2023/8->
How can we indicate the different FoV for human-like robots?
Physical vs. AR Virtual Robot
2023/11 ->
Would people perceive virtual robots in augmented reality (AR) differently?
LLM-Enabled Story-Telling Robots
2024/1->
How would generative AI-enabled robots perform in improving college students’ mental health?
Physical Protectives to Mitigate Robot Abuse
2024/6->
How would different protective indicators impact people’s perspective on the likelihood of a female robot being abused?
Dentists’ and Patients’ Perspectives of Robots
2024/9->
What are the opinions about robots in dentists’ offices from dentists and their patients?
Making AI-Enabled Robots Explainable
2025/1->
How would we enable robots to explain false predictions from their policies learned from transformer-based foundational models and LLMs?