About Us
The goal of the Human And Robot Partners (HARP) lab is to understand and develop autonomous, intelligent robots that help people live better. Our robots engage people through social and physical interactions, monitoring human behavior to understand and predict the types of help people need. Our lab’s expertise includes robotics, human-robot interaction, machine learning, computer vision, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and cognitive science. Application domains include assistive robot manipulators for people with motor impairments, robot tutors for education, and robot therapy assistants for people with cognitive or social disabilities.
We are a part of the Robotics Insitute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Stop by our lab in NSH 4502 for a visit!
If you’re interested in getting involved with our research, please read this first.
News
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3 Sept ‘24: Congratulations to Dr. Ben Newman for his successful thesis defense on “Assistive value alignment using in-situ naturalistic human behaviors”!
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15 Aug ‘24: Congratulations to Dr. Abhijat Biswas for his successful thesis defense on “Eye Gaze for Intelligent Driving”!
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14 Aug ‘24: Congratulations to Dr. Ada Taylor for her successful thesis defense on “Goal-Expressive Movement for Social Navigation: Where and When to Behave Legibly”!
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1 Aug ‘24: Pranay successfully defended his Master’s Thesis on ‘Estimating Object Importance and Modeling Driver’s Situational Awareness for Intelligent Driving’! Congratulations!
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25 June ‘24: Congrats to Michelle for completing her thesis proposal on ‘Aligning Robot Task and Interaction Policies to Human Values’!