A four-year competition resulted in fourth place for splash professor Kris Hauser and his AVATRINA student team. This video tells the story about their robotics research, TRINA - a Tele-Robotic Intelligent Nursing Assistant. bit.ly/3XjfQYu

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I am happy to share that I will be joining the Computer Science department at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) this fall. I would like to thank all those who have offered me great help over the years. P.S. I will be hiring PhD students starting from Spring of 2026!

I am hiring PhD students for Spring/Fall 26! Please share this with those who are interested in doing a PhD in the field of robotics. Thanks!

My lab will be heading over to #RSS2025 ! If you are interested in contact-aware information theory for robotics, reach out to Hrishikesh Sathya . Haoxiang You Yilang Liu, and Christian Hughes will be around to talk about their work on efficient robot learning and control!

Had a blast at RSS25! It was great to catch up with old friends and meet new friends. Amazing progress in the field. Also grabbed my first drink with my PhD advisor Kris since graduation!

A new Science #Robotics study describes a low-cost, vision-based alternative to force #torque sensors that provides a soft gripper with feedback control for manipulating objects dexterously. Yifan Zhu scim.ag/46dgTjo

Need support for your #robotics research? We’re excited to announce that our Academic Grant Program is now accepting proposals for robotics and edge AI projects. Resources include #NVIDIAJetson Orin Nano Developer kits, and more. 👉 nvda.ws/3TpkmUC

A US Senate committee has indicated that it will reject the huge budget cuts that President Trump proposed for some science agencies, including the NSF and NASA go.nature.com/3TuZzPw

The Adaptive Robotics Lab at UIC will be hiring PhD students for Fall 2026, with a focus on real-to-sim and contact-rich manipulations. Please find out more about how to apply, and current research of my lab here: adaptive-robotics-lab.github.io/prospective/. Thanks!