Robotics: Perception and Manipulation (RPM) Lab
Welcome to the Robotics: Perception and Manipulation (RPM) Lab at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.
We focus on addressing the fundamental question of “What should/does/can a physical object in our environment mean to a robot?” thus leading to the following research questions.
- How can a robot perceive and reason about objects in the human environment?
- How can a robot interact with these objects?
- How can a robot compose its interactive skills into performing meaningful tasks?
- How can a robot learn to do all of the above toward seamless interaction and task execution?
We are interested in application domains (healthcare, climate change, agriculture, etc.) where our research solutions can make a huge impact.
We are looking for passionate new students to join the team (more info) !
News
07. Sept 2023
Karthik and Alireza will co-organize a workshop - NeuRL-RMW: Workshop for Neural Representation Learning for Robot Manipulation at CoRL2023 conference in November.
22. Aug 2023
Congratulations to Ryan Diaz, for being awarded by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) to conduct his research at RPM Lab
10. Aug 2023
Great job by Revanth, Kai, Athreyi and Ryan Diaz with posters, presentations and videos for the 2023 Summer Undergraduate Research Expo (SURE)
22. June 2023
Karthik receives Early Innovation Fund, for developing hardware to effectively collect human-demonstrations.
01. June 2023
Congratulations to Athreyi Badithela, for receiving Hopper-Dean Scholarship
01. May 2023
Congratulations to Athreyi Badithela, for being awarded by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) to conduct her research at RPM Lab