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Happy to share that our paper “Language-Guided Grasping under Partial Observation for Mobile Manipulation in Field Inspection and Maintenance” was accepted at the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR)!

Happy to share that our paper “Mind the Phase: Effective Rank and Representation Health in Legged Locomotion” was accepted at the 2026 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)!

I am happy to announce that I have joined the Editorial Board of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) as an Associate Editor in the area of Robot Learning. I will be working with Senior Editor Sehoon Ha in this...

Our preprint, “From Perception to Assistance: Open-Vocabulary Shared Autonomy for Robotic Manipulation,” is now available on arXiv.

Happy to share that our paper “VLN on the Fly: A Fully Onboard Vision-Language Navigation Stack for Aerial Robots” was accepted for publication in the 2026 International Micro Air Vehicle (IMAV) conference and competition!

Happy to share that our paper “Towards Capability-Aware Traversability Navigation for Unstructured Environments” was accepted for publication in the 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)!

Our workshop poster presentation “Viewpoint-Agnostic Grasp Pipeline using VLM and Partial Observations” was accepted for publication in the Workshop on Manipulation Robustness: Towards Human-Level Robustness under Real-World Challenges (IEEE ICRA 2026)!

Our manuscript “Evaluating Zero-Shot and One-Shot Adaptation of Small Language Models in Leader-Follower Interaction” was accepted for publication in IEEE BioRob 2026!

The manuscript “Descriptor: Parasitoid Wasps and Associated Hymenoptera Dataset (DAPWH)” was accepted for publication at IEEE Data Descriptions!

Yesterday we had two papers accepted!

Our paper, entitled “A Vision-Based Shared-Control Teleoperation Scheme for Controlling the Robotic Arm of a Four-Legged Robot”, received the best paper award at the 2025 IEEE Latin American Robotics Symposium (LARS)! Congratulations, team!