| Aug 29, 2026 | Hydra: A Navigation World Action Model with Discrete Latent Planning and Continuous Flow-Matching Execution introduces a unified world model and planner that can perform planning in latent space is on arXiv. |
| Jul 08, 2026 | HumAIN: Human-Aware Implicit Social Robot Navigation was accepted at IROS 2026. |
| Jun 30, 2026 | Received a $10,000 Microsoft Azure Compute Grant through the Microsoft Research Accelerator Program to support the Hydra project. |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Received the Best Student Presentation Award at the 1st Workshop on Long-term Deployments in the Wild (LoWi) at IEEE ICRA 2026 in Vienna, Austria, for the presentation of VertiFormer. |
| Feb 12, 2026 | Zero-Shot Adaptation to Robot Structural Damage via Natural Language-Informed Kinodynamics Modeling introduces language-informed kinodynamics modeling for zero-shot adaptation to robot structural damage is on arXiv. |
| Feb 01, 2025 | VertiFormer: A Data-Efficient Multi-Task Transformer for Off-Road Robot Mobility combines dynamics learning and planning for off-road navigation is on arXiv. |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Social-LLaVA: Enhancing Robot Navigation through Human-Language Reasoning in Social Spaces introduces a vision-language model and dataset for human-like reasoning in socially aware robot navigation was accepted at IROS 2025. |
| Oct 01, 2024 | M2P2: A Multi-Modal Passive Perception Dataset for Off-Road Mobility in Extreme Low-Light Conditions was accepted at IROS 2025. |
| Sep 17, 2024 | VertiCoder: Self-Supervised Kinodynamic Representation Learning on Vertically Challenging Terrain was accepted at ICRA 2025. |
| Jul 08, 2024 | Traverse the Non-Traversable: Estimating Traversability for Wheeled Mobility on Vertically Challenging Terrain is on arXiv. |
| Jul 01, 2024 | Both VANP and TAL were accepted at IROS 2024. |
| Mar 25, 2024 | VANP and TAL two models that use SSL to understand the surrounding in indoor/outdoor environments and vertically challenging terrains are on arXiv. |
| Feb 10, 2024 | CAHSOR: Competence-Aware High-Speed Off-Road Ground Navigation that uses SSL to augment vision space with IMU data is on arXiv. |
| Jan 14, 2024 | Verti-wheelers was accepted at ICRA 2024. |
| Jun 30, 2023 | MuSoHu: A Large-Scale, Multi-Modal, Social Human Navigation Dataset was accepted at IROS 2023. |