Fluent Robotics Lab

Our #HRI2026 late-breaking report looks at how to generate legible robot motion in pedestrian environments, specifically focusing on 2 Qs: 🔸what should a robot be legible over? 🔸how does human distraction impact the benefits of legibility? @fluentrobotics @UMRobotics

Excited to share our #HRI2026 paper! 🎉 Over the past two years, my @fluentrobotics lab @UMRobotics & the group of Rachid Alami (LAAS Toulouse) ran an ambitious project to study the implications of human motion prediction fidelity for downstream MPC navigation performance

We started "Robo Reflections" 💭 the new #HRI group @UMRobotics. It's like a reading group, but better - we engage in critical discussions beyond the readings of a single paper 🩶 Co-organized: @longjinghsu, @masterson_a, @mavrojean, @lionelrobertjr, leia stirling

Happy to share my talk from the #ICRA2025 workshop on long-term human motion prediction (motionpredictionicra2025.github.io), where I highlight recent research from the @fluentrobotics lab on engineering fluent human-robot teamwork! youtu.be/FXNelyxjM9A @UMRobotics

Work by Jeeho Ahn and @mavrojean Expo Hall (Room 101A) - 9AM- 1PM Wednesday video: youtu.be/WNWegHkDJ1Q paper: fluentrobotics.com/pdfs/ahn2025pi… code based on ReloPush: lnkd.in/g6xy2M7h hardware: mushr.io @UMRobotics

Our demonstration involves a cycle between the formation of the greek letters Α and Ω, representing respectively an infinite loop between the beginning and the end ♾️.

Rearrangement planning for embodied pixel art! For the Arts in Robotics Session @ieee_ras_icra, we will demonstrate how our ReloPush planning framework (fluentrobotics.com/pdfs/ahn2025re…) enables a mobile robot to produce room-scale pixel art by pushing a set of cubic pixels. #ICRA2025

*Proudly made on a MuSHR (mushr.io) in the @fluentrobotics Lab @UMRobotics @UMich. #robotics #multiagent #multirobot #artificialintelligence

Work led by my brilliant PhD student, Jeeho Ahn, who will present this paper next month @ieee_ras_icra! paper: fluentrobotics.com/pdfs/ahn2025re… code: github.com/fluentrobotics… video: youtube.com/watch?v=_EwHuF…

How can we enable constrained robots to rearrange cluttered, unstructured spaces? In our #ICRA2025 paper, we present ReloPush, a planning framework that enables car-like robots to rearrange dense clutter using only pushing, commodity hardware, and no workspace engineering!

#humanrobotinteraction #robotics #ArtificialIntelligence

.@UMRobotics

How can we enable robots to fluently collaborate with humans on physically demanding tasks? 🧵 about our #HRI2025 paper! @HRI_Conference