We develop methods that, from high-level specification, design, build, and deploy things that that are hard or expensive to develop manually. Our research spans virtual systems (e.g. game environments), physical (e.g. structures), and cyber-physical systems (e.g. robots and assistive devices).
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IROS 2023 Workshop Report: Draft Guidelines on Manufacturing Procedures, Test Methods and Reporting for Soft Robotics
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@article{baines2025iros,
title={IROS 2023 Workshop Report: Draft Guidelines on Manufacturing Procedures, Test Methods and Reporting for Soft Robotics},
author={Baines, Robert and Blumenschein, Laura and Case, Jennifer and MacCurdy, Robert and Olson, Gina and Spielberg, Andrew},
year={2025}
}
Sim-to-real of soft robots with learned residual physics
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2024)
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@article{gao2024sim,
title={Sim-to-real of soft robots with learned residual physics},
author={Gao, Junpeng and Michelis, Mike Y and Spielberg, Andrew and Katzschmann, Robert K},
journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
year={2024},
publisher={IEEE}
}
How Can Large Language Models Help Humans in Design And Manufacturing? Part 2: Synthesizing an End-To-End LLM-enabled Design and Manufacturing Workflow
Harvard Data Science Review (2024)
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@article{makatura2024can,
title={How can large language models help humans in design and manufacturing? Part 2: Synthesizing an end-to-end LLM-enabled design and manufacturing workflow},
author={Makatura, Liane and Foshey, Michael and Wang, Bohan and H{\"a}hnlein, Felix and Ma, Pingchuan and Deng, Bolei and Tjandrasuwita, Megan and Spielberg, Andrew and Owens, Crystal and Chen, Peter Yichen and others},
journal={Harvard Data Science Review},
number={5},
year={2024},
publisher={The MIT Press}
}
How Can Large Language Models Help Humans in Design And Manufacturing? Part1: Elements of the LLM-enabled computational design and manufacturing pipeline
Harvard Data Science Review (2024)
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@article{makatura2024can,
title={How can large language models help humans in design and manufacturing? Part 1: Elements of the LLM-enabled computational design and manufacturing pipeline},
author={Makatura, Liane and Foshey, Michael and Wang, Bohan and H{\"a}hnlein, Felix and Ma, Pingchuan and Deng, Bolei and Tjandrasuwita, Megan and Spielberg, Andrew and Owens, Crystal and Chen, Peter Yichen and others},
journal={Harvard Data Science Review},
number={5},
year={2024},
publisher={The MIT Press}
}
DiffuseBot: Breeding Soft Robots With Physics-Augmented Generative Diffusion Models
Advances in Neural Processing (NeurIPS, 2023)
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@article{wang2023diffusebot,
title={Diffusebot: Breeding soft robots with physics-augmented generative diffusion models},
author={Wang, Tsun-Hsuan Johnson and Zheng, Juntian and Ma, Pingchuan and Du, Yilun and Kim, Byungchul and Spielberg, Andrew and Tenenbaum, Josh and Gan, Chuang and Rus, Daniela},
journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
volume={36},
pages={44398--44423},
year={2023}
}
Efficient automatic design of robots
Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sceinces (PNAS, 2023)
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@article{matthews2023efficient,
title={Efficient automatic design of robots},
author={Matthews, David and Spielberg, Andrew and Rus, Daniela and Kriegman, Sam and Bongard, Josh},
journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
volume={120},
number={41},
pages={e2305180120},
year={2023},
publisher={National Academy of Sciences}
}
Sim-to-Real for Soft Robots Using Differentiable FEM: Recipes for Meshing, Damping, and Actuation
Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L, 2022)
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@article{dubied2022sim,
title={Sim-to-real for soft robots using differentiable fem: Recipes for meshing, damping, and actuation},
author={Dubied, Mathieu and Michelis, Mike Yan and Spielberg, Andrew and Katzschmann, Robert Kevin},
journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
volume={7},
number={2},
pages={5015--5022},
year={2022},
publisher={IEEE}
}
Co-Learning of Task and Sensor Placement for Soft Robotics
Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L, 2021)
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@article{spielberg2021co,
title={Co-learning of task and sensor placement for soft robotics},
author={Spielberg, Andrew and Amini, Alexander and Chin, Lillian and Matusik, Wojciech and Rus, Daniela},
journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
volume={6},
number={2},
pages={1208--1215},
year={2021},
publisher={IEEE}
}
A Simple, Inexpensive, Wearable Glove with Hybrid Resistive‐Pressure Sensors for Computational Sensing, Proprioception, and Task Identification
Advanced Intelligent Systems (2020)
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@article{hughes2020simple,
title={A simple, inexpensive, wearable glove with hybrid resistive-pressure sensors for computational sensing, proprioception, and task identification},
author={Hughes, Josie and Spielberg, Andrew and Chounlakone, Mark and Chang, Gloria and Matusik, Wojciech and Rus, Daniela},
journal={Advanced Intelligent Systems},
volume={2},
number={6},
pages={2000002},
year={2020},
publisher={Wiley Online Library}
}
Multi-robot grasp planning for sequential assembly operations
Autonomous Robots (2019)
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@article{hughes2020simple,
title={A simple, inexpensive, wearable glove with hybrid resistive-pressure sensors for computational sensing, proprioception, and task identification},
author={Hughes, Josie and Spielberg, Andrew and Chounlakone, Mark and Chang, Gloria and Matusik, Wojciech and Rus, Daniela},
journal={Advanced Intelligent Systems},
volume={2},
number={6},
pages={2000002},
year={2020},
publisher={Wiley Online Library}
}
RapID: A framework for fabricating low-latency interactive objects with RFID tags
CHI '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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@inproceedings{spielberg2016rapid,
title={RapID: A framework for fabricating low-latency interactive objects with RFID tags},
author={Spielberg, Andrew and Sample, Alanson and Hudson, Scott E and Mankoff, Jennifer and McCann, James},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2016 chi conference on human factors in computing systems},
pages={5897--5908},
year={2016}
}
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