Modular robots can be rearranged into a new design, perhaps each day, to handle a wide
variety of tasks by forming a customized robot for each new task. However, reconfiguring just …

Modular robots are made up of a set of components which can be configured and
reconfigured to form customized robots for a wide range of tasks. Fully utilizing the flexibility …

Optimizing the morphologies and the controllers that adapt to various tasks is a critical issue
in the field of robot design, aka. embodied intelligence. Previous works typically model it as …

Effective design automation for building robots would make development faster and easier
while also less prone to design errors. However, complex multi-domain constraints make …

We automate soft robotic hand design iteration by co-optimizing design and control policy for
dexterous ma-nipulation skills in simulation. Our design iteration pipeline combines genetic …

Modular robots can be reconfigured to create a variety of designs from a small set of
components. But constructing a robot's hardware on its own is not enough--each robot …

The goal of personal robotics is to have robots in homes performing everyday tasks
efficiently to improve our quality of life. Towards this end, manipulators are needed which …

We present a computational design pipeline that allows evaluation of the robot and
environment parameters in a robust manner, giving insight into interactions that can lead to …

Robots have been used to automate many tasks, and yet designing robots remains largely a
manual process. This thesis seeks to" automate automation" by developing methods to …

Modular robot and multi-robot systems share a concept in common: composition, ie the
study of how parts can be combined so they can be used to achieve certain objectives. Our …