Updates & News
Research, publications, presentations, and selected project milestones. The full archive appears below.
| Sep 27, 2026 | MagPie Tactile Skin is listed as a contributed spotlight in the September 27 IROS 2026 tactile workshop program. The project combines magnetic and piezoresistive sensing in a modular taxel. |
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| Sep 23, 2026 | Packaged the Lite6 A2 full-surface tactile-skin design, including Revision F wireless matrix electronics interfaces and audited printable geometry. Physical fit and sensing tests remain open. |
| Sep 20, 2026 | The Quest 3 SentMap / World Mapper recorded-data demo reconstructed three objects from headset observations. Live walkthrough validation remains open. |
| Sep 14, 2026 | MagPie: A Magnetic-Piezoresistive Tactile Skin was accepted for an oral presentation at the IROS 2026 Scalable Tactile Sensing for Dexterous Manipulation workshop. I developed this work with Breck School students Jackson Goodrich and Eytan Krebs and with Karthik Desingh. Project overview. |
| Sep 14, 2026 | Our tailorable force-sensing skins work was accepted as a poster at the IROS 2026 Scalable Tactile Sensing for Dexterous Manipulation workshop. |
| Sep 06, 2026 | Recorded an exploratory zero-shot blue-marker pickup on the Thunder UR5e using wrist-camera observations and a language-model controller. This is one demonstration, with video. |
| Jun 17, 2026 | Our paper Tailorable Force-Sensing Skins for Manipulators Using Textile and Additive Manufacturing was accepted to IROS 2026. This work is with Heidi Woelfle, Brad Holschuh, and Karthik Desingh. Project page. |
| Summer 2026 | Joined Northrop Grumman Space Systems’ AI Foundations team as a graduate research fellow, studying supervised emergence in multi-agent AI systems. Experience and CV. |
| May 30, 2026 | Our three Design of Medical Devices 2026 papers are published by ASME, covering a telerobotic guidewire platform, vascular route planning, and the StrokeNav2D dataset. |
| Feb 17, 2026 | The University of Minnesota featured my robotics and tactile-sensing research. |
| Jan 30, 2026 | Three papers I co-authored on remote thrombectomy and cerebrovascular navigation were accepted to the 2026 Design of Medical Devices Conference. |
| Aug 01, 2025 | AugInsert accepted at IROS 2025 |
| Jun 02, 2025 | Shared SPARK-Remote at the 2025 Midwest Robotics Workshop. |
| May 2025 | Presented SPARK-Remote at the ICRA 2025 Workshop on Human-Centric Multilateral Teleoperation. Workshop contributions. |
| Apr 29, 2025 | Posted the SPARK-Remote: A Cost-Effective System for Remote Bimanual Robot Teleoperation preprint as lead author with co-author Karthik Desingh. It presents a low-cost setup for remote bimanual manipulation research. |
| Sep 01, 2024 | Started Ph.D. in Computer Science (Robotics focus) at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. |
| Jul 24, 2024 | Published: Co-Author Talk Through It (RA-L 2024) |
| May 2024 | Completed the University of Minnesota M.S. in Robotics program. Minnesota Robotics Institute graduation update. |
| Sep 01, 2023 | Started M.S. in Robotics at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. |
| Sep 01, 2019 | Started B.S. in Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. |