Our work in robot-assisted feeding focuses on enabling autonomous, safe, and comfortable bite acquisition and delivery for individuals with motor impairments. Our system ADA (Assistive Dexterous Arm) integrates compliant control, multimodal perception, and learned food interaction policies to handle the diversity of everyday meals. We study the fundamental problems of manipulation under uncertainty while advancing assistive robotics for real-world impact.

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Published contributors

  • Siddhartha Srinivasa
  • Taylor Kessler Faulkner
  • Matthew Barnes
  • Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
  • Amal Nanavati
  • Matthew Schmittle
  • Ethan Gordon
  • Aditya Vamsikrishna
  • Gilwoo Lee
  • Jose Jaime
  • Rosario Scalise
  • Raida Karim
  • Haya Bolotski
  • Hanjun Song
  • Maya Cakmak
  • Ramon Qu
  • Yuxin (Ray) Song
  • Sriram Kutty

Publications

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Jose Jaime, Liander Rainbolt, Ikshita Sathanur, Taylor Kessler Faulkner, Siddhartha Srinivasa
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2026
Amal Nanavati, Ethan K Gordon, Taylor A Kessler Faulkner, Yuxin (Ray) Song, Johnathan Ko, Tyler Schrenk, Vy Nguyen, Bernie Hao Zhu, Haya Bolotski, Atharva Kashyap, Sriram Kutty, Raida Karim, Liander Rainbolt, Rosario Scalise, Hanjun Song, Ramon Qu, Maya Cakmak, Siddhartha S Srinivasa
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2025
Best Paper Award Finalist for Systems
E.K. Gordon*, R.K. Jenamani*, A. Nanavati*, Z. Liu, H. Bolotski, R. Karim, D. Stabile, A. Kashyap, B. H. Zhu, X. Dai, T. Schrenk, J. Ko, T.A.K. Faulkner, T. Bhattacharjee, S.S. Srinivasa — * equal contribution
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024
Best Demo Award Winner
E.K. Gordon*, A. Nanavati*, R. Challa, Bernie H. Zhu, Taylor A. Kessler Faulkner, S. S. Srinivasa — * equal contribution
Conference on Robot Learning, 2023
A. Nanavati*, P. Alves-Oliveira*, T. Schrenk, E.K. Gordon, M. Cakmak, S. S. Srinivasa — * equal contribution
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023
Best Paper Award Winner for Design
A. Nanavati, P. Alves-Oliveira, T. Schrenk, E.K. Gordon, M. Cakmak, S.S. Srinivasa
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023
E.K. Gordon, S. Roychowdhury, T. Bhattacharjee, K. Jamieson, S.S. Srinivasa
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021
E.K. Gordon, X. Meng, T. Bhattacharjee, M. Barnes, S.S. Srinivasa
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020
T. Bhattacharjee, E.K. Gordon, R. Scalise, M.E. Cabrera, A. Caspi, M. Cakmak, S.S. Srinivasa
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020
T. Bhattacharjee, G. Lee, H. Song, S.S. Srinivasa
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE, 2019
R. Feng, Y. Kim, G. Lee, E.K. Gordon, M. Schmittle, S. Kumar, T. Bhattacharjee, S.S. Srinivasa
International Symposium on Robotics Research, 2019
T. Bhattacharjee, M.E. Cabrera, A. Caspi, M. Cakmak, S.S. Srinivasa
International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2019
D. Gallenberger, T. Bhattacharjee, Y. Kim, S.S. Srinivasa
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2019
Best Paper Award Winner for Technical Advances in HRI
H. Song, T. Bhattacharjee, S.S. Srinivasa
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019
T. Bhattacharjee, D. Gallenberger, D. Dubois, L. L'Écuyer-Lapiere, Y. Kim, A. Mandalika, R. Scalise, R. Qu, H. Song, E. Gordon, S.S. Srinivasa
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2018
Best Demo Award Winner