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          <b>Welcome to the Interactive and Trustworthy Robotics Lab!</b> Our goal is to enable embodied AI agents to reliably interact with the open world. 
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          This includes---but is not limited to---quantifying a robot's confidence (e.g., in a requested task or in their predictive models of the world), computing safe interaction policies (e.g., that prevent nuanced safety hazards like tearing, spilling, or breaking), and aligning AI models with hard-to-specify end-user values. 
          Towards this, our research develops theory and algorithms that draw upon optimal control and reinforcement learning, dynamic games, uncertainty quantification, and deep learning. 
          Our work is applied in a variety of domains, such as lightweight robotic arms, quadrotors, quadrupedal robots, and autonomous cars. 
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                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Sept 2026] 🚀</b>  </p> We have 5 papers accepted to CoRL! Congrats to Junwon (<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00267">StressDream</a>), Yilin (<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.14981">Steering via Vision & Touch</a>), Joe (<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12299">Learning What to Say to Your VLA</a>), Ken + Matthew (<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06492">Do World Models Understand Partially Observable Safety Constraints?</a>), and Andrew (<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31132">Scaling Test-Time Compute in Robotics</a>). See you in Texas 🤠</li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Sept 2026] 🏆</b>  </p> Ken is named a Rising Star at the <a href="https://nerc2026.github.io/">Northeast Robotics Colloquium</a>!</li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[May 2026] 📣</b>  </p>New preprint from Lasse on <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11485">Coordinated Diffusion (CoDi)</a>: generating multi-agent robot behavior without multi-agent demonstrations. Check out the <a href="https://autonomousrobots.nl/paper_websites/codi">paper website</a>! </li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Apr 2026] 🚀</b>  </p>Congrats to Thomas and Yilin on their <a href="./pdf/tian_icml_26_position.pdf">position paper</a> acceptance to ICML as a spotlight (top 5%)! </li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Apr 2026] 🚀</b>  </p>Congrats to Jessie and Yilin on their <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22474">paper</a> acceptance to RSS! </li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Apr 2026] 🏆</b>  </p>Congrats to Jessie and Sunny on receiving the NSF GRFP! </li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Jan 2026] 🚀</b>  </p>Congrats to Ken on his <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18606">paper</a> acceptance to L4DC as an oral presentation! </li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Jan 2026] 🚀</b>  </p>Congrats to Yilin, Sunny, Junwon, and Thomas for their accepted ICRA papers! See you in Vienna 🇦🇹 </li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Dec 2025] 🚀</b>  </p>Congrats to Ravi on his <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13727">paper</a> acceptance to the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI! </li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Oct 2025] 🏆</b>  </p>Andrea receives the <a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2025/amazon-research-fellows">Amazon Research Award (ARA)</a>! </li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Oct 2025] 🎓</b>  </p>Congratulations to Dr. <a href="https://ravipandya.com/">Ravi Pandya</a> and Dr. <a href="https://thomasrantian.github.io/">Ran (Thomas) Tian</a>! They are the first two PhD graduates from the Intent Lab and are off to do big things as research scientists.</li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Sept 2025] 🏆</b>  </p>Andrea receives the <a href="https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/communities/academia/young-faculty-award">DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA)</a>! </li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Aug 2025] 🚀</b>  </p>Congrats to Junwon and Pranay on their CoRL papers! Check out Junwon's <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00779">here</a> and Pranay's <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12678">here</a>.</li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[June 2025] 🚀</b>  </p>Congrats to Joe and Rosy on their IROS <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09883v2">paper</a>! </li>
                    <li><i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[June 2025] 🏆</b>  </p> Congrats to Joe for receiving the NSF GRFP! </li> 
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                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[May 2025] 🚀</b>  </p>Congrats to Mohamad and Gokul on their RLC <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15618">paper</a>!  </li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[May 2025] 📣</b>  </p>Andrea is giving 3 ICRA workshop talks at <a href="https://iscicra25.github.io/">Robot safety under uncertainty from “intangible” specifications</a>, <a href="https://motionpredictionicra2025.github.io/#top">Long Term Human Motion Prediction</a>, and <a href="https://human-cenetered-robot-learning-workshop.github.io/icra-2025/">Human-Centered Robot Learning in the Era of Big Data and Large Models</a>. </li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[May 2025] 🏆</b>  </p>Lasse Peters and Cherie Ho are named <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/rsspioneers2025/participants?authuser=0">RSS Pioneers</a>! </li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[May 2025] </b>  </p>New paper on arXiv on <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00779">uncertainty-aware latent safety filters</a>. </li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[April 2025] 🏆</b>  </p>Andrea receives the <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2441014&HistoricalAwards=false">NSF CAREER Award</a>! </li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[April 2025] 🏆</b> </p>Congrats to Yilin, Thomas, and Gokul for receiveing the Outstanding Paper Award at ICLR Workshop on Workshop on World Models for their <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01828">paper</a>. </li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[April 2025] 🚀</b>  </p>Congrats to Ken and Yilin for their RSS 2025 papers! Check out Ken's paper <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00935">here</a> and Yilin's <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01828">here</a>.  </li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[March 2025] 📣</b>  </p>Andrea gave a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwRYUbpphMw&list=PLCFD85BC79FE703DF&index=6">talk</a> titled "Towards Open World Robot Safety" at the RI Seminar!</li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Jan 2025] 🚀</b>  </p>Congrats to Leo on his paper about <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14580">updating safety representations via language</a> and Ravi on paper about <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12153">safely influencing</a> accepted to ICRA 2025!</li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Jan 2025] 🚀</b>  </p>Congrats to Michelle on her ICLR 2025 <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08852">paper</a> on conformalized IL!</li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Jan 2025]</b>  </p>We are running two workshops at ICRA! One on <a href="https://sites.google.com/stanford.edu/safe-vlm-icra/home">Safely Leveraging VLMs in Robotics</a> and the other on <a href="https://saferobotics.princeton.edu/ptas-icra25">Public Trust in Autonomy</a></li>
                    <li><i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Dec 2024] 🏆</b>  </p>Ken is named an <a href="https://hripioneers.org/">HRI Pioneer</a>!</li>
                    <li><i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Oct 2024]</b>  </p>New <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08852">arXiv paper</a> on conformal prediction + interactive imitation learning.</li>
                    <li><i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Sept 2024]</b>  </p> Three new arXiv papers! Check out our work on <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09883">robots that suggest safe alternatives</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14580">updating robot safety representations online from natural language</a>, and <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12153">robots that learn to safely influence</a>.</li>
                    <li><i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Sept 2024] 🚀</b>  </p> Congrats to Ken for his CoRL <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04745">paper</a> on not all prediction errors are made equal from the perspective of closed-loop robot performance.</li>
                    <li><i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Aug 2024] 🚀</b> </p> Congrats to Neerja on her ECCV <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06653">paper</a> on adapting human trajectory predictors to scene-specific behaviors.</li>
                     <li><i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[June 2024]</b>  </p> Three undergraduate students join the lab via the <a href="https://riss.ri.cmu.edu/">RISS program</a>. Welcome to Joe, Leo, and Abby! </li>
                    <li><i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[June 2024]</b>  </p> New <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09794">arXiv paper</a> on human--AI safety through the lens of generative AI and control systems.</li>
                    <li> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[May 2024] 🏆</b>  </p>Thomas Tian is named an <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/rsspioneers2024/">RSS Pioneer</a>!
                    <li><i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[May 2024] 🏆</b>  </p> Congrats to Ken for receiving the NSF GRFP! </li> 
                    <li><i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Apr 2024] 🚀</b>  </p> Congrats to Michelle on her RSS <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07767">paper</a> on using conformal prediction to calibrated shared controllers.</li>
                    <li><i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Apr 2024] 🏆</b>  </p> Andrea receives the <a href="https://research.google/programs-and-events/research-scholar-program/recipients/">Google Research Scholar Award</a>!</li>
                    <li><i class="fa fa-chevron-right"\></i> <p style="display:inline;color:#000000;"><b>[Mar 2024]</b>  </p> New <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04745">arXiv paper</a> on a general calibrated regret metric for detecting and mitigating human-robot interaction failures; check out the applicability to anomaly detection in interactive generative planners too!</li>
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