Open Space
The core of the SRC is the central open space, with lots of room for robots to move around, and screens for monitoring them or doing collaborative work. From the open space, you can see into all of the other SRC spaces. Be sure to look up as you walk through this space!
Demos
The iCub humanoid robot is a platform for basic research on embodied artificial intelligence and its application scenarios in healthcare
Autonomous delivery robots to reliably support nurses, pharmacists and hotel staff.
The Jaco assistive robot is traditionally operated with a joystick, using buttons to switch between control modes. We aim to make control more natural and intuitive by tracking gaze and understanding context. In this demo, we use the robot to move objects by looking at them and performing simple hand gestures.
An untethered exoskeleton that delivers personalized assistance to reduce walking effort and enhance walking speed in the real world
A soft wearable knit haptic device for social touch in digital environments
A gecko-inspired robot that uses dry adhesive footpads to climb vertically along walls
Kinesthetic teaching and interaction through speech and gesture
This demo showcases the ASL Trunk Robot, a flexible, open-source continuum robot designed for safe and precise manipulation tasks. Using an Apple Vision Pro, users can control the robot to sort items via hand gestures, illustrating the potential of soft robots for safe, close human-robot interaction.
Using AR to collect data effectively for training robots
Come play with Pupper! Pupper can listen and respond to you! Cameras, microphones, and proprioception enable Pupper to sense its environment. Speakers, a high resolution screen, expressive ears, and agile body enable Pupper to express its feelings through voice and motion.
DigiSkin is a stretchable, ultra-conformable glove with dense, pressure-sensing pixels that capture precise pressure data. Users can visualize pressure during tasks, while a learning algorithm interprets this data to identify objects.
Our wearable suit tracks motion to provide real-time feedback during exercise, helping improve form and prevent injuries. Patented and tested on professional runners, it is modular and customizable through simple calibration.
UMI on Legs is a framework for deploying robot manipulation policies across different robots, shown here placing espresso cups onto saucers. It demonstrates how manipulation skills trained without robots can be adapted for later deployment on any robot, including legged ones, making the data pipeline both cost-effective and adaptable for future hardware.
In a robot collective, robots exchange knowledge to learn tasks much faster and develop more general solutions than isolated robots. This demo shows how connected robots can quickly master tactile tasks, like key insertion, and improve production efficiency by collaborating with humans.
This demo invites you to try controlling the Free Flyer, an autonomous space robot floating on a table to simulate a 2D space environment. Experience firsthand the challenges of controlling a system with low control authority, and discover how next-generation algorithms are shaping the future of autonomous space missions.