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March 20, 2026
Congratulations to the Ommie demo team and to Kayla Matheus for winning both the Best Demo award and the Best Alt HRI paper award at the 2026 ACM/IEEE International...
February 23, 2026
Lab member Nicholas Georgiou defended his dissertation “Investigating Human Perceptions and Responses to Robot Failures Across Functional, Social, and Moral Contexts in Human...
February 20, 2026
Lab member Debasmita Ghose defended her dissertation “Robots Adapting to People Without Becoming a Nuisance” today.  Abstract: Human-robot collaboration requires robots to...
September 16, 2025
Rebecca Ramnauth, a postdoc in our lab, was selected to participate in the 2025 Rising Stars in EECS Workshop, hosted by MIT and Boston University on October 30–31, 2025....
August 29, 2025
Rebecca Ramnauth, a recent PhD graduate from the lab, won the Best Paper Award at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-...
August 22, 2025
Lab member Rebecca Ramnauth defended her dissertation “Building Intelligent Robots for Social Regulation Therapy” today. Abstract: Throughout life, we learn the rules of...
March 24, 2025
Rebecca Ramnauth, a sixth year PhD student in the lab, won the Best Paper Award in the Theory and Methods Track at the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot...

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