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Professor Huang presented our project "Is Soft Manipulator Weak? A Low-Cost, High-Payload, Proprioceptive, Reconfigurable Origami Arm for Mobile Robots" at General Motors in Warren, MI. The talk received highly positive feedback. We look forward to continuing the exploration of industrial applications for soft manipulators in collaboration with GM.
April 8, 2025
Congratulations to master’s student Yatin Shankar Narayanan and PhD student Yilin Ma! Their paper, "Adaptive Self-sealing Soft Robotic Face Mask (SRFM) with Particle Jamming", has been selected as a Best Student Paper Finalist at RoboSoft 2025! Special thanks to co-advisors Prof. Mark Draelos and Prof. Brent Gillespie for their invaluable support and guidance.
April 8, 2025
Our paper Large Language Models as Natural Selectors for Embodied Soft Robot Design by master’s students Changhe Chen, Xiangdong Wang, and PhD student Xiaohao Xu was recently featured in 机器之心. Learn how we leverage LLMs to guide voxel-based soft robot design. Code is available on GitHub.
April 6, 2025
Congratulations to PhD student Xiaohao Xu! 🎉 His paper,
Towards Multi-Hypothesis Spatial Foundation Model: Rethinking and Decoupling Spatial Ambiguity via Laplacian Visual Prompting ,
has been accepted to the ICLR 2025 Workshop.
Great work, Xiaohao! 🎉👏
Mar 6, 2025
Congratulations to PhD student Xiaohao Xu! 🎉 His paper, MAC-Ego3D: Multi-Agent Gaussian Consensus for Real-Time Collaborative Ego-Motion and Photorealistic 3D Reconstruction has been accepted to The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025. Additionally, three more papers that Xiaohao contributed to have also been accepted at CVPR 2025. Great work, Xiaohao! 🎉👏
Feb 26, 2025
Building on Our Success at IROS 2023, the workshop titled "Tensegrity Robotics," co-organized by PI Huang, has been accepted to RoboSoft 2025! We invite you to check out the workshop website and encourage submissions of one-page abstracts for poster presentations or live demos. This website also serves as a hub for the tensegrity community, so feel free to send us your tensegrity-related papers if you’d like them to be listed. See you all in 📍 Lausanne, Switzerland!
Feb 8, 2025
The workshop titled "Origami and Kirigami: How Paper Folding and Cutting Have Revolutionized Soft Robotics and What's Beyond," co-organized by PI Huang, has been accepted to RoboSoft 2025! We invite you to check out the workshop website and encourage submissions of one-page abstracts for poster presentations or live demos. See you all in 📍 Lausanne, Switzerland!
Feb 8, 2025
Congratulations to PhD students Wenzhe Tong, Jonathan Mi, and Yicheng Jiang! 🎉 Their paper, Tensegrity Robot Proprioceptive State Estimation with Geometric Constraints has been accepted by Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Shout-out to our collaborators Tzu-Yuan Lin and Prof. Maani Ghaffari for their invaluable contributions! 👏🎉
Feb 8, 2025
Congratulations to PhD student Xiaohao Xu! 🎉 His paper, Customizing Visual-Language Foundation Models for Multi-Modal Anomaly Detection and Reasoning has been accepted to the 2025 28th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD). Great work, Xiaohao! 🎉👏
Feb 5, 2025
Kudos to PhD student Xiaohao Xu! 🎉 He delivered an oral presentation titled MAC-Ego3D: Multi-Agent Gaussian Consensus for Real-Time Collaborative Ego-Motion and Photorealistic 3D Reconstruction at the ICON Student Research Conference at Purdue University. Great job representing our lab!
Jan 30, 2025
Great work by our undergraduate students! 🎉 Jiyang Wang, Yuchen You, Xinqi Zhang, Haobo Fang, and Jiaqi Wang presented their modular soft arm and conducted a live demo at the ICON Student Research Conference at Purdue University. Their presentation was featured on LinkedIn by the Purdue University Institute for Control, Optimization, and Networks.
Jan 30, 2025
HDR Lab Celebrates Chinese New Year! 🏮🎉 The lab gathered for a festive Chinese New Year hotpot dinner at Professor Huang's house, enjoying delicious food and great company. Wishing everyone a prosperous and joyful year ahead!
Jan 29, 2025
Congratulations to Zexiong Chen, Xinqi Zhang, and Jiaqi Wang! 🎉 Their pipe-climbing robot has been selected as a finalist in the RoboSoft 2025 competition in Lausanne. Wishing them the best of luck in the finals!
Jan 24, 2025
Congratulations to Jiyang Wang, Yuchen You, Xinqi Zhang, Haobo Fang, and Jiaqi Wang! 🎉 Their extended abstract, "Origami-Inspired Soft Robotic Arm: A Modular Platform for Manipulation," has been accepted to RoboSoft 2025.
Jan 24, 2025
Congratulations to PhD student Xiaohao Xu! 🎉 His paper, Scalable Benchmarking and Robust Learning for Noise-Free Ego-Motion and 3D Reconstruction from Noisy Video has been accepted to ICLR 2025! A big thank you to all our lab members and collaborators for their valuable contributions to this work!
Jan 24, 2025
Congratulations to master student Ye Li! 🎉 His paper, UniDrive: Towards Universal Driving Perception Across Camera Configurations has been accepted to ICLR 2025! A big thank you to our collaborators for their valuable contributions to this work!
Jan 24, 2025
Congratulations to Yatin Shankar Narayanan and Yilin Ma, Along with Co-Advisors Prof. Mark Draelos and Prof. Brent Gillespie, for Their Paper "Adaptive Self-Sealing Soft Robotic Face Mask (SRFM) with Particle Jamming" Accepted at RoboSoft 2025 with Two "Definitely Accept" Ratings.
Jan 7, 2025
Master Student Ye Li Presented Spotlight Research Titled "Is Your LiDAR Placement Optimized for 3D Scene Understanding?" , at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver, Canada.
Dec 11, 2024
HDR Lab Shines at Defend the Republic Competition: Secures Fourth Place and Wins 2-on-2 Final Game in Collaboration with Indiana University.
Nov 22, 2024
Congratulations to Xiaohao Xu and Yatin Shankar Narayanan for Winning the Prestigious Rackham International Student Fellowship: Two Out of Three College of Engineering Recipients are from HDR Lab.
Nov 22, 2024
Professor Huang Presents "Towards Autonomous Tensegrity Robots" at Georgia Tech CS Graduate Student Seminar.
Nov 21, 2024
Congratulations to Ye Li and Xiaohao Xu for Their Paper "Is Your LiDAR Placement Optimized for 3D Scene Understanding?" Accepted at NeurIPS 2024 and Selected as a Spotlight Presentation.
Nov 22, 2024
HDR Lab Hosts Annual Summer BBQ Event to Celebrate Team Achievements and Welcome New Members.
Aug 23, 2024
PI Huang was Awarded a U-M Space Institute Pathfinder Grant for Project “Developing a Soft Vine Robot for Comet Surface and Subsurface Exploration”.
July 18, 2024
First Year Master Student Ye Li Presented His Research Titled "Influence of Camera-LiDAR Configuration on 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving" at ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan.
May 16, 2024
The HDR Lab Made its Debut at the Defend the Republic competition, Held at George Mason University, and Achieved an Impressive Fifth-place Finish.
April 26, 2024
Junior students Jiyang Wang and Yufei Xi Showcased Their Untethered Origami Wall-Climbing Robot at the Midwest Robotics Workshop held at Purdue University, Drawing Significant Attention.
April 18, 2024
HDR Lab Showcases Strong Presence at RoboSoft Conference 2024 in San Diego and Celebrated Their Success with a Lab Dinner at Haidilao Hot Pot.
April 15, 2024
Prof. Huang Successfully Organized and Led the Workshop "Multimodal Soft Robots for Multifunctional Manipulation, Locomotion, and Human-Machine Interaction" at RoboSoft 2024, Followed by a Dinner with the Invited Speakers and Organizers.
April 15, 2024
First Year PhD Student Xiaohao Xu Won the Best Poster Award in the Workshop "Democratization of Soft Robotics through Embodied Intelligence" at RoboSoft 2024.
April 15, 2024
First Year PhD Student Jonathan Mi Demonstrated His Tensegrity Robot Live at RoboSoft 2024, Drawing Significant Attention.
April 15, 2024
First Year PhD Student Jiaqi Wang Presented His Research Titled "Lightweight Autonomous Crawling Robot Utilizing Vacuum-Driven Self-Sensing Origami Actuators for 3D Multi-Terrain Exploration" at the RoboPhysics session of the APS 2024 conference in Minneapolis.
March 6, 2024
HDR Lab Celebrates Semester's End with Inaugural Hotpot Party at Prof. Huang's Home
December 15, 2023
Prof. Huang and HDR Lab Graduate Students Jonathan Mi, Xiaohao Xu, and Yilin Ma Visit 'Defend the Republic' Competition, Set to Compete Next April
November 17, 2023
UM Undergraduate Team 'Fight or Flight,' Mentored by Prof. Huang, Secures 3rd Place at Detroit's Artificial Horizon Art Show
November 5, 2023
Prof. Huang Presents Invited Talk on "Towards an Autonomous Tensegrity Robot" at SES Conference and Attends Soft Machines Lab Reunion in Minneapolis
October 19, 2023
Prof. Huang Successfully Leads and Organizes Tensegrity Robotics Workshop at IROS
October 4, 2023
HDR Lab Showcases Strong Presence at IROS Conference in Detroit
October 3, 2023
UM's 'Fight or Flight' Undergraduate Team, Comprising Nicholas Robinson, Adam Hung, Saima Jamal, and David Kim and Mentored by Prof. Huang, Clinches 2nd Place in IROS Functional Fashion Competition
October 2, 2023