News

Feb 15, 2027 The DARoS Lab opens at KAIST, joining the Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI. We are recruiting graduate students and interns — see Join Us. :tada:
Jul 30, 2026 NSF CAREER Award: leveraging toes for agile humanoid locomotion
Jun 02, 2026 GuideTWSI named an ICRA 2026 Award Finalist
May 20, 2026 Daniel Marew defends the lab's first PhD
Mar 05, 2026 GuideNav wins a Systems Paper Honorable Mention at HRI 2026
Oct 01, 2025 New NSF award to support research on modeling human agile locomotion.
Sep 05, 2025 Received an NVIDIA Academic Grant — four RTX PRO 6000 GPUs — to develop vision-language models for guide-dog robots. :rocket:
Aug 13, 2025 NIH Trailblazer Award for guide-dog robot research
Nov 06, 2024 Three papers presented at Humanoids 2024 — generic humanoid locomotion across discrete terrains, biomechanics-inspired soccer kicking, and the StaccaToe single-leg robot (IROS 2024).
Aug 28, 2024 Best Paper Finalist at UR 2024
May 16, 2024 Best Paper Award at CHI 2024 for guide-dog robot study