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I am a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute.

I work in the Manipulation Lab, advised by Matt Mason.

I'd like robots to contact the world confidently. My research goal is to provide them with enough sensing, reasoning, and acting capabilities to master physical interaction.

My focus is on understanding what happens within the robot's hand during the manipulation process, and how to control it, either through its design or its actions. What is it like to successfully manipulate an object from the hand's point of view?

My current research topics include probabilistic and data-driven manipulation, mechanical design, grasping, caging, and automated assembly.

News

• 2013/05/09

  Our paper at ICRA 2013 Effector Form Design for 1DOF Planar Actuation won the Best Student Paper Award!

  
  Joint work with Matt Mason.
  
• 2013/04/30

  I am co-organizing a workshop at IROS 2013 in Tokio on Caging.

  
  By Weiwei Wan, Alberto Rodriguez, Jianhua Su, Satoshi Makita, and David Cappelleri.
  
• 2013/03/15

  I am co-organizing a workshop at RSS 13 on Common Platforms in Robotic Manipulation.

  
  By Lael Odhner, Matei Ciocarlie, Alberto Rodriguez, Aaron Dollar, and Matt Mason.
  
• 2013/03/12

  Our paper A Data-Driven Statistical Framework for Post-Grasp Manipulation is conditionally accepted at the International Journal of Robotics Research.

  
  Joint work with Robert Paolini, Sidd Srinivasa, and Matt Mason.
  

© Alberto Rodriguez