Biography
I am an incoming Assistant Professor at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver and a member of CAIDA . Currently I am a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT CSAIL working with Professor Daniela Rus. I obtained my Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania advised by Professor Mark Yim (ModLab in UPenn GRASP Lab ).
I am actively recruiting postdoctoral researchers, graduate and undergraduate students who are passionate about robotics. Please feel free to reach out if you are interested in joining my group. More information can be found here.
News
- [05/2024] We are hosting a workshop on wearable robotics at ICRA 2024!
- [01/2024] Two papers are accepted to ICRA 2024!
- [01/2024] Three papers are accepted to ICLR 2024!
- [11/2023] One paper is accepted by Nature Communication!
- Hybrid soft-rigid robotics
- Swarm and modular robotics
- Dexterous manipulation and grasping
- Multimodal perception and reasoning
- Motion planning and control
PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, 2021
University of Pennsylvania
MS in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, 2014
University of Pennsylvania
BS in Mechanical Engineering and Automation, 2012
Dalian Jiaotong University
Projects
Machine Perception
Advanced proprioceptive and exteroceptive sensing approaches for robot control.
Soft Material Modeling
Simulation engines of soft materials for manipulation tasks.
Textile-based Sensing and Actuation
Textile-based digital fabrication for sensing and actuation.
Robotic Manipulation
Bio-inspired dexterous robotic hands and human-level manipulation skill imitation.
ActionSense
A multimodal dataset for human activities
Whole-Body Motion Control in Real Time
Control and planning for dexterous manipulation in real time.
SMORES-EP
SMORES-EP, a hybrid swarm and modular robotic system.
Variable Topology Truss
Variable Topology Truss robots are hyper-redundant parallel modular robots.
Aerial Manipulation
A novel manipulator for aerial manipulation.
Publications
Contact
- chao.liu[at]ubc.ca
- 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139