DEPARTMENTS

Emperical Interference

Haptic Intelligence

Modern Magnetic Systems

Perceiving Systems

Physical Intelligence

Robotic Materials

Social Foundations of Computation


Research Groups

Autonomous Vision

Autonomous Learning

Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots

Dynamic Locomotion

Embodied Vision

Human Aspects of Machine Learning

Intelligent Control Systems

Learning and Dynamical Systems

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems

Movement Generation and Control

Neural Capture and Synthesis

Physics for Inference and Optimization

Organizational Leadership and Diversity

Probabilistic Learning Group


Topics

Robot Learning

Conference Paper

2022

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Robotics

AI

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Physical Intelligence Article Navigating microalgal biohybrids through confinements with magnetic guidance Akolpoglu, M. B., Baltaci, S. F., Bozuyuk, U., Karaz, S., Sitti, M. Matter, 8:102052, April 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Comparing Puncture-Detection Approaches for Manual Needle Insertions Through the Parietal Pleura L’Orsa, R., Zareinia, K., Sutherland, G. R., Westwick, D., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, April 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Article Comparing Puncture-Detection Approaches for Manual Needle Insertions Through the Parietal Pleura L’Orsa, R., Zareinia, K., Sutherland, G. R., Westwick, D., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, April 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Enhancing Needle Puncture Detection Using High-Pass Filtering and Diffuse Reflectance L’Orsa, R., Bisht, A., Yu, L., Murari, K., Sutherland, G., Westwick, D., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, March 2025, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Real-time inference for binary neutron star mergers using machine learning Dax, M., Green, S. R., Gair, J., Gupte, N., Pürrer, M., Raymond, V., Wildberger, J., Macke, J. H., Buonanno, A., Schölkopf, B. Nature, 639(8053):49-53, March 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Article Wrist-to-Wrist Bioimpedance Can Reliably Detect Discrete Self-Touch Forte, M., Vardar, Y., Javot, B., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 74(4006511):1-11, February 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Article How knee muscles and ground reaction forces shape knee buckling and ankle push-off in neuromuscular simulations of human walking Buchmann, A., Kiss, B., Badri-Spröwitz, A., Renjewski, D. Scientific Reports, 15:2249, January 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Materials Article Simultaneous Selective and Quantitative Sensing of Diclofenac and Metoprolol via Electrical Conductance of Two Polyelectrolyte Hydrogels Tsianaka, A., Fichtel, K., Tovar, G. E. M., Southan, A. Advanced Sensor Research, 4(3):2400141, January 2025 (Published) pdf DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Flow Matching for Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanets: Where Reliability meets Adaptive Noise Levels Gebhard, T. D., Wildberger, J., Dax, M., Kofler, A., Angerhausen, D., Quanz, S., Schölkopf, B. Astronomy \& Astrophysics, 693, January 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Article Wearable Electrohydraulic Actuation for Salient Full-Fingertip Haptic Feedback Shao, Y., Shagan Shomron, A., Javot, B., Keplinger, C., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Advanced Materials Technologies, (2401525):1-12, January 2025, Yitian Shao and Alona Shagan Shomron contributed equally to this publication (Published) DOI BibTeX

Biomimetic Materials and Machines Article Highly agile flat swimming robot Hartmann, F., Baskaran, M., Raynaud, G., Benbedda, M., Mulleners, K., Shea, H. February 2025 (Published) BibTeX

Robotic Materials Article A robotic and virtual testing platform highlighting the promise of soft wearable actuators for wrist tremor suppression Shagan Shomron, A., Chase-Markopoulou, C., Walter, J. R., Sellhorn-Timm, J., Shao, Y., Nadler, T., Benson, A., Wochner, I., Rumley, E. H., Wurster, I., et al. Device, :100719, March 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Artificial intelligence for modelling infectious disease epidemics Kraemer, M. U. G., Tsui, J. L., Chang, S. Y., Lytras, S., Khurana, M. P., Vanderslott, S., Bajaj, S., Scheidwasser, N., Curran-Sebastian, J. L., Semenova, E., et al. Nature, 638(8051):623-635, February 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Human Aspects of Machine Learning Article Causal fair metric: Bridging causality, individual fairness, and adversarial robustness Ehyaei, A. R., Farnadi, G., Samadi, S. Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2025, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Early warning of complex climate risk with integrated artificial intelligence Reichstein, M., Benson, V., Blunk, J., Camps-Valls, G., Creutzig, F., Fearnley, C. J., Han, B., Kornhuber, K., Rahaman, N., Schölkopf, B., et al. Nature Communications, 16(1), March 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article The Fiction Machine Bottou, L., Schölkopf, B. SIAM News, 58(3), April 2025 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article A Randomized Controlled Trial on Anonymizing Reviewers to Each Other in Peer Review Discussions Rastogi, C., Song, X., Jin, Z., Stelmakh, I., Daumé III, H., Zhang, K., Shah, N. B. PLOS ONE, 19(12), Public Library of Science, December 2024 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Article Cutaneous Electrohydraulic (CUTE) Wearable Devices for Pleasant Broad-Bandwidth Haptic Cues Sanchez-Tamayo, N., Yoder, Z., Rothemund, P., Ballardini, G., Keplinger, C., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Advanced Science, 11(48):1-14, December 2024, This article was selected for the inside front cover. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202470295 (Published) Video DOI URL BibTeX

Physics for Inference and Optimization Article Framework to generate hypergraphs with community structure Ruggeri, N., Battiston, F., De Bacco, C. Physical Review E, March 2024 (Published) Preprint Code Paper DOI URL BibTeX

Physics for Inference and Optimization Article Message-Passing on Hypergraphs: Detectability, Phase Transitions and Higher-Order Information Ruggeri, N., Lonardi, A., De Bacco, C. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, April 2024 (Published) Preprint Code Paper DOI URL BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Article Metacognitive Learning from Consequences of Past Choices Shapes Moral Decision-Making Maier, M., Cheung, V., Lieder, F. Nature Human Behaviour, December 2024, Submitted (Submitted) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Simulation Training with Haptic Feedback of Instrument Vibrations Reduces Resident Workload During Live Robot-Assisted Sleeve Gastrectomy Gomez, E. D., Mat Husin, H., Dumon, K. R., Williams, N. N., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Surgical Endoscopy, December 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article PuzzleAvatar: Assembling 3D Avatars from Personal Albums Xiu, Y., Liu, Z., Tzionas, D., Black, M. J. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 43(6):1-15, ACM, December 2024 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article StableNormal: Reducing Diffusion Variance for Stable and Sharp Normal Ye, C., Qiu, L., Gu, X., Zuo, Q., Wu, Y., Dong, Z., Bo, L., Xiu, Y., Han, X. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 43(6):1-18, ACM, December 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Robust Machine Learning Article Interaction Asymmetry: A General Principle for Learning Composable Abstractions Brady, J., von Kügelgen, J., Lachapelle, S., Buchholz, S., Kipf, T., Brendel, W. November 2024, Submitted (Submitted) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article A Sleeve Alters the Pressure-Stretch Curve of a Hyperelastic Balloon to Enable Pre-Programmed Sequencing Gertler, I., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Advanced Materials Technologies, :1-11, November 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physics for Inference and Optimization Article Structure and inference in hypergraphs with node attributes Badalyan, A., Ruggeri, N., De Bacco, C. Nature Communications, 7073:15, August 2024 (Published) Preprint Code Paper DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Wrist-to-Wrist Bioimpedance Can Reliably Detect Discrete Self-Touch Forte, M., Vardar, Y., Javot, B., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 74:1-11, November 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotics Article Building Instructions You Can Feel: Edge-Changing Haptic Devices for Digitally Guided Construction Tashiro, N., Faulkner, R., Melnyk, S., Rosales Rodriguez, T., Javot, B., Tahouni, Y., Cheng, T., Wood, D., Menges, A., Kuchenbecker, K. J. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, October 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Robotic Materials Article Hexagonal electrohydraulic modules for rapidly reconfigurable high-speed robots Yoder, Z., Rumley, E., Schmidt, I., Rothemund, P., Keplinger, C. Science Robotics, 9, September 2024 (Published) Video PDF DOI URL BibTeX

Robotic Materials Article Electrohydraulic Musculoskeletal Robotic Leg for Agile, Adaptive, yet Energy-Efficient Locomotion Buchner, T. J. K., Fukushima, T., Kazemipour, A., Gravert, S., Prairie, M., Romanescu, P., Arm, P., Zhang, Y., Wang, X., Zhang, S. L., et al. Nature Communications, 15(1), September 2024 (Published) Press release Video (overview) Video (technical description) Article in pdf DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article A Probabilistic Model behind Self-Supervised Learning Bizeul, A., Schölkopf, B., Allen, C. Transactions on Machine Learning Research, October 2024 (Published) PDF URL BibTeX

Physics for Inference and Optimization Article Community detection and anomaly prediction in dynamic networks Safdari, H., De Bacco, C. Communications Physics, 7:397, September 2024 (Published) Preprint Paper DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Empirical Inference Optics and Sensing Laboratory Software Workshop Article Fiber-Optic Shape Sensing Using Neural Networks Operating on Multispecklegrams Cao, C. G. L., Javot, B., Bhattarai, S., Bierig, K., Oreshnikov, I., Volchkov, V. V. IEEE Sensors Journal, 24(17):27532-27540, September 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Localization and recognition of human action in 3D using transformers Sun, J., Huang, L., Hongsong Wang, C. Z. J. Q., Islam, M. T., Xie, E., Zhou, B., Xing, L., Chandrasekaran, A., Black, M. J. Nature Communications Engineering , 13(125), September 2024 (Published) paper DOI BibTeX

Physics for Inference and Optimization Article Optimal transport with constraints: from mirror descent to classical mechanics Ibrahim, A. A., Muehlebach, M., De Bacco, C. Physical Review Letters, 133:057401, July 2024 (Published) Preprint Code Paper DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article EarthRanger: An Open-Source Platform for Ecosystem Monitoring, Research, and Management Wall, J., Lefcourt, J., Jones, C., Doehring, C., O’Neill, D., Schneider, D., Steward, J., Krautwurst, J., Wong, T., Jones, B., et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13, British Ecological Society, September 2024 (Published) pdf DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Robotics Article Identifying Terrain Physical Parameters from Vision-Towards Physical-Parameter-Aware Locomotion and Navigation Chen, J., Frey, J., Zhou, R., Miki, T., Martius, G., Hutter, M. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Identifying Terrain Physical Parameters From Vision, 9(11):9279-9286, August 2024 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physics for Inference and Optimization Article A model for efficient dynamical ranking in networks Della Vecchia, A., Neocosmos, K., Larremore, D. B., Moore, C., De Bacco, C. Phys. Rev. E 110, 034310, September 2024 (Published) Preprint Code Paper DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Fingertip Dynamic Response Simulated Across Excitation Points and Frequencies Serhat, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 23(4):1369-1376, August 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Leveraging Task Structures for Improved Identifiability in Neural Network Representations Chen*, W., Horwood*, J., Heo, J., Hernández-Lobato, J. M. Transactions on Machine Learning Research, August 2024, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Re-Thinking Inverse Graphics with Large Language Models Kulits, P., Feng, H., Liu, W., Abrevaya, V., Black, M. J. Transactions on Machine Learning Research, August 2024 (Published) pdf URL BibTeX