6 papers
Will People Enjoy a Robot Trainer? A Case Study with Snoopie the Pacerbot
Maximilian Du, Jennifer Grannen, Shuran Song +1
The physicality of exercise makes the role of athletic trainers unique. Their physical presence allows them to guide a student through a motion, demonstrate an exercise, and give i…
DexDrummer: In-Hand, Contact-Rich, and Long-Horizon Dexterous Robot Drumming
Hung-Chieh Fang, Amber Xie, Jennifer Grannen +2
Performing in-hand, contact-rich, and long-horizon dexterous manipulation remains an unsolved challenge in robotics. Prior hand dexterity works have considered each of these three…
Robot-Powered Data Flywheels: Deploying Robots in the Wild for Continual Data Collection and Foundation Model Adaptation
Jennifer Grannen, Michelle Pan, Kenneth Llontop +4
Foundation models (FM) have unlocked powerful zero-shot capabilities in vision and language, yet their reliance on internet pretraining data leaves them brittle in unstructured, re…
ProVox: Personalization and Proactive Planning for Situated Human-Robot Collaboration
Jennifer Grannen, Siddharth Karamcheti, Blake Wulfe +1
Collaborative robots must quickly adapt to their partner's intent and preferences to proactively identify helpful actions. This is especially true in situated settings where human…
A Study of Perceived Safety for Soft Robotics in Caregiving Tasks
Cosima du Pasquier, Jennifer Grannen, Chuer Pan +6
In this project, we focus on human-robot interaction in caregiving scenarios like bathing, where physical contact is inevitable and necessary for proper task execution because forc…
Vocal Sandbox: Continual Learning and Adaptation for Situated Human-Robot Collaboration
Jennifer Grannen, Siddharth Karamcheti, Suvir Mirchandani +2
We introduce Vocal Sandbox, a framework for enabling seamless human-robot collaboration in situated environments. Systems in our framework are characterized by their ability to ada…