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20222025
most citedVoicePilot: Harnessing LLMs as Speech Interfaces for Physically Assistive Robots

38 citations · 59 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.RO2025

WAFFLE: A Wearable Approach to Bite Timing Estimation in Robot-Assisted Feeding

Akhil Padmanabha, Jessie Yuan, Tanisha Mehta +10

Millions of people around the world need assistance with feeding. Robotic feeding systems offer the potential to enhance autonomy and quality of life for individuals with impairmen…

cs.CV2025

In-Vivo Skin 3-D Surface Reconstruction and Wrinkle Depth Estimation using Handheld High Resolution Tactile Sensing

Akhil Padmanabha, Arpit Agarwal, Catherine Li +10

Three-dimensional (3-D) skin surface reconstruction offers promise for objective and quantitative dermatological assessment, but no portable, high-resolution device exists that has…

cs.RO2025

Towards Wearable Interfaces for Robotic Caregiving

Akhil Padmanabha, Carmel Majidi, Zackory Erickson

Physically assistive robots in home environments can enhance the autonomy of individuals with impairments, allowing them to regain the ability to conduct self-care and household ta…

cs.RO2024★ 4 cited

Towards an LLM-Based Speech Interface for Robot-Assisted Feeding

Jessie Yuan, Janavi Gupta, Akhil Padmanabha +4

Physically assistive robots present an opportunity to significantly increase the well-being and independence of individuals with motor impairments or other forms of disability who…

cs.RO2024

1 Modular Parallel Manipulator for Long-Term Soft Robotic Data Collection

Kiyn Chin, Carmel Majidi, Abhinav Gupta

Performing long-term experimentation or large-scale data collection for machine learning in the field of soft robotics is challenging, due to the hardware robustness and experiment…

cs.RO2024★ 38 cited

VoicePilot: Harnessing LLMs as Speech Interfaces for Physically Assistive Robots

Akhil Padmanabha, Jessie Yuan, Janavi Gupta +4

Physically assistive robots present an opportunity to significantly increase the well-being and independence of individuals with motor impairments or other forms of disability who…

cs.LG2024★ 5 cited

Hierarchical State Space Models for Continuous Sequence-to-Sequence Modeling

Raunaq Bhirangi, Chenyu Wang, Venkatesh Pattabiraman +4

Reasoning from sequences of raw sensory data is a ubiquitous problem across fields ranging from medical devices to robotics. These problems often involve using long sequences of ra…

cs.RO2024★ 12 cited

Independence in the Home: A Wearable Interface for a Person with Quadriplegia to Teleoperate a Mobile Manipulator

Akhil Padmanabha, Janavi Gupta, Chen Chen +5

Teleoperation of mobile manipulators within a home environment can significantly enhance the independence of individuals with severe motor impairments, allowing them to regain the…

cs.RO2022

HAT: Head-Worn Assistive Teleoperation of Mobile Manipulators

Akhil Padmanabha, Qin Wang, Daphne Han +6

Mobile manipulators in the home can provide increased autonomy to individuals with severe motor impairments, who often cannot complete activities of daily living (ADLs) without the…