Robotics and AI Institute

I completed my third co-op at the Robotics and AI Institute in spring/summer 2025. I was at the institute for 6 months full time (Jan-Jul) and 2.5 months part time until mid September. 

While at the institute, I was part of a 5 person research project called Underactuated Robot Manipulator (URM) led by Professor Aaron Dollar from Yale. This project sought to explore how underactuation can enable passive adaptation to uncertain environmental constraints during manipulation. Conventional robot arms can exert very high forces on their environment when in contact with unforeseen obstacles, potentially resulting in damage or injury. Underactuated systems, however, can exhibit passive reconfigurability in response to contact which may enable them to achieve manipulation objectives in contact-rich environments without excessive forces on the environment.