ROAM Lab

Project pages for the Robotic Manipulation and Mobility Lab at Columbia University.

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Project Pages

DITTO

DITTO

2026

Dexterous Interface for Transparent TeleOperation

TeleoperationDexterous Hands
SpikeATac

SpikeATac

ICRA 2026

A Multimodal Tactile Finger with Taxelized Dynamic Sensing for Dexterous Manipulation

Tactile SensingDexterous Manipulation
ReactEMG Stroke

ReactEMG‑Stroke

BioRob 2026

Healthy-to-Stroke Few-Shot Adaptation for sEMG-Based Intent Detection

sEMGStroke Rehab
Uncertainty Comes Free

Uncertainty Comes Free

ICRA 2026

Learning Human-in-the-Loop Policies with Diffusion Models

Diffusion PolicyHuman-in-the-Loop
ReactEMG

ReactEMG

2025

Stable, Low-Latency Intent Detection from sEMG via Masked Modeling

sEMGIntent Detection
VibeCheck

VibeCheck

IROS 2025

Active Acoustic Tactile Sensing for Contact-Rich Manipulation

Acoustic SensingManipulation
MORPH

MORPH

RA-L 2024

Design Co-optimization with Reinforcement Learning via a Differentiable Hardware Model Proxy

Co-DesignReinforcement Learning
TentaMORPH

TentaMORPH

IROS 2024

Task-Based Design and Policy Co-Optimization for Tendon-Driven Underactuated Kinematic Chains

Co-DesignTendon-Driven
Guided Exploration

Guided Exploration

ICRA 2024

Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation by Guiding Exploration with Simple Sub-Skill Controllers

Dexterous ManipulationReinforcement Learning
HULA

HULA

ICRA 2024

Decision Making for Human-in-the-Loop Robotic Agents via Uncertainty-Aware Reinforcement Learning

Human-in-the-LoopReinforcement Learning
SBRL

SBRL

RSS 2023

Sampling-Based Exploration for Reinforcement Learning of Dexterous Manipulation

Dexterous ManipulationReinforcement Learning
DiscoSyn

DiscoSyn

RA-L 2022

Discovering Synergies for Robot Manipulation with Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning

SynergiesMulti-Task RL
Finger-Gaiting In-Hand Manipulation

Finger-Gaiting

ICRA 2022

On the Feasibility of Learning Finger-Gaiting In-Hand Manipulation with Intrinsic Sensing

Dexterous ManipulationIntrinsic Sensing
DSSM

DSSM

ICRA 2022

Adaptive Semi-Supervised Intent Inferral to Control a Powered Hand Orthosis for Stroke

Intent InferralStroke Rehab
HWasP — Hardware as Policy

HWasP

CoRL 2020

Hardware as Policy: Mechanical and Computational Co-Optimization using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Co-DesignReinforcement Learning