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ASCRS 2025
December 03, 2024
Abstract accepted for presentation at the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS) 2025

IROS 2024
September 01, 2024
Our paper Sequential Discrete Action Selectionvia Blocking Conditions and Resolutions (authors Liam Merz Hoffmeister, Brian Scassellati, and Daniel Rakita) will...

Yale Engineering Magazine
August 01, 2024
The APOLLO lab was featured in the 2024 issue of Yale Engineering

ONR grant
February 01, 2024
Daniel Rakita and Brian Scassellati awarded grant to improve robot manipulation in cluttered environments

Yale news article for ICRA 2023 paper
April 24, 2023
News article on our paper An Analysis of Unified Manipulation with Robot Arms and Dexterous Hands via Optimization-based Motion Synthesis...

HRI2023 best paper award
March 18, 2023
Our paper, Lively: Enabling Multimodal, Lifelike, and Extensible Real-time Robot Motion, won a Best Paper Award at HRI 2023! Check...
Talk at Cornell
November 10, 2022
Intuitive Robot Shared-Control Interfaces via Real-time Motion Planning and Optimization