Several students have been awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships; team member Sam Noh won second place in the ASME Student Mechanism and Robotics Design Competition; one paper was selected as a Top 5 Editor's Pick from Science Robotics (IF 23.75) for 2021; multiple papers accepted by Science Robotics.
Research Experience
Leads the GRAB Lab at Yale University's Department of Mechanical Engineering; started a new group called Yale Tech for Conservation; founded and leads the YCB Object and Model Set benchmarking effort; released the Yale Human Grasping Dataset; serves as editor and co-founder of RoboticsCourseWare.org.
Background
Research interests include robot manipulation, dexterous grasping and manipulation, upper-limb prosthetics, human grasping and manipulation, and assistive and rehabilitation devices.
Miscellany
Made some of their robotic hand designs freely available as Open Hardware through the Yale OpenHand Project; initiated efforts to centralize and host other similar Open Robot Hardware projects via OpenRobotHardware.org.