News
News and publications
What we've been up to, and what we've published.
Recent news
Award
FeedBot team wins campus innovation prize
Undergraduates on the FeedBot project took first place in a campus design competition for their arm's quick-release mount.
Community
Third robot moves into a partner's home
A shared-control wheelchair is now in daily use by one of our community partners, who is helping us track how it performs.
Outreach
Lab hosts high school robotics day
Forty high school students built simple grippers and drove our test wheelchair around an obstacle course.
Selected publications
Recent papers from the lab, newest first.
2026
- Raman, P., Marquez, E. "How much help do wheelchair users want? A home study of shared control." Sample Journal of Assistive Robotics.
- Lee, J., Marquez, E. "Soft fingers that pick up a grape and a glass." Sample Conference on Soft Robotics.
2025
- Owens, M., Marquez, E. "Steering a robot arm with small head movements." Sample Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.
- Chen, S., Okafor, D., Marquez, E. "ReachKit: a robot arm clinics can build themselves." Sample Workshop on Open Hardware.