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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June, 2026: Congratulations to Dr. Michelle Zhao for her successful thesis defense on “Integrating Learning and Collaboration for Human-Robot Alignment”!
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June, 2026: Welcome to our summer students! RISS scholars Arlene Reyes and Evelyn Moncayo as well as CMU undergraduates David Yi, Geoffrey Sun, Lily Qin, and Deanna Paukstitus have joined the lab for the summer!
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May, 2026: Pat’s paper “What Do You Think I Think? Accounting for Human Beliefs Using Second-Order Theory of Mind” was accepted at CogSci 2026!
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Sept, 2025: Pranay presented “Adapting by analogy: OOD Generalization of visuomotor policies via functional correspondence” at CoRL 2025!
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Sept, 2025: Henny returned from sabbatical!