Transportation, Bots, & Disability Lab

We discover and examine new ways of supporting accessible transportation and human-robot interaction. This includes work on core issues in robotics and other computer science, like appropriate robot behaviors, trust and robot performance, and accessible interactions with AI and robots.

  • Three scenes from the pedestrian data set (top left: overhead camera; top right: lidar; bottom fused forward views with labels)
    Allan Wang, PhD
    Allan defended his PhD thesis today! After some paperwork, he’ll be off to Japan to spend more time with robots.
  • A black robot with a speech bubble saying "Let me move my brain over to a better robot body". The scene also has a box and a ramp.
    Samantha Reig, PhD
    Sam successfully defended her PhD! Its interview season, so we’re still waiting to see where she’ll be in the fall. … Read more
  • Items on a desk surface: box, cards, large buttons, smartphone, hexagonal tray
    Lynn Kirabo, PhD
    Kirabo successfully defended her PhD! She’ll be an Assistant Professor of Climate and Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College in … Read more