Anthrobotics Lab

Anthrobotics = anthropos (human) + robotics — robots that learn from and work in physical contact with people, rather than in isolation from them.

The Anthrobotics Lab studies human-centred physical interaction with robots. Its focus is learning from human haptic demonstrations — capturing how a person applies force, compliance, and correction during contact-rich tasks, and transferring that skill to robots. Work spans haptic teleoperation (human-in-the-loop control via force-feedback masters), contact-rich manipulation with force/torque sensing and admittance control, and shared human–robot tool use.