Zackory Erickson
Assistant Professor
Studies robotic caregiving and physical human-robot interaction for healthcare.
Zackory Erickson's lab at CMU works on human-robot interaction & assistive robots. 29 papers since 2023, 21 at top venues, mostly CoRL and HRI. 6 PhD students and 13 master's students. 52 alumni, most often to Genesis AI and Meta. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 8/ year
- at T1 venues
- 72%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 13
- alumni listed
- 52
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 6 papers2025 · T1 5
- 12 papers2024 · T1 7
- 9 papers2023 · T1 7
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CoRL, HRI, ICRA, RA-L, ICML
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Human-robot interaction & assistive robots15 papers
- physical human-robot2 papers
- human-robot interaction2 papers
- robotic2 papers
- studies robotic0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20262 papers
20256 papers
- CoRL (T1)CoRI: Communication of Robot Intent for Physical Human-Robot Interaction (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Force-Modulated Visual Policy for Robot-Assisted Dressing with Arm Motions
- CoRL (T1)Geometric Red-Teaming for Robotic Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Partner Journals in RoboticsHigh-density electromyography for effective gesture-based control of physically assistive mobile manipulators (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Incremental Learning for Robot Shared Autonomy
- HRI (T1)LAMS: LLM-Driven Automatic Mode Switching for Assistive Teleoperation (opens in a new tab)
202412 papers
- RA-LAdaFold: Adapting Folding Trajectories of Cloths via Feedback-Loop Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)BodyMAP-Jointly Predicting Body Mesh and 3D Applied Pressure Map for People in Bed (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)DiffTORI: Differentiable Trajectory Optimization for Deep Reinforcement and Imitation Learning (opens in a new tab)
- ROMANDo Mistakes Matter? Comparing Trust Responses of Different Age Groups to Errors Made by Physically Assistive Robots (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)EMGBench: Benchmarking Out-of-Distribution Generalization and Adaptation for Electromyography (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LForce Constrained Visual Policy: Safe Robot-Assisted Dressing via Multi-Modal Sensing (opens in a new tab)
- HRI (T1)Independence in the Home: A Wearable Interface for a Person with Quadriplegia to Teleoperate a Mobile Manipulator (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)RL-VLM-F: Reinforcement Learning from Vision Language Foundation Model Feedback (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)RoboGen: Towards Unleashing Infinite Data for Automated Robot Learning via Generative Simulation (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) AdjunctTowards an LLM-Based Speech Interface for Robot-Assisted Feeding (opens in a new tab)
- Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous SystemsUnfolding the literature: A review of robotic cloth manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)VoicePilot: Harnessing LLMs as Speech Interfaces for Physically Assistive Robots (opens in a new tab)
20239 papers
- Nature Communications MedicineA Multimodal Sensing Ring for Quantification of Scratch Intensity (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)A Study of Causal Confusion in Preference-Based Reward Learning (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)EDO-Net: Learning Elastic Properties of Deformable Objects from Graph Dynamics (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Elastic Context: Encoding Elasticity for Data-driven Models of Textiles (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)HAT: Head-Worn Assistive Teleoperation of Mobile Manipulators (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)One Policy to Dress Them All: Learning to Dress People with Diverse Poses and Garments (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Quantifying Assistive Robustness Via the Natural-Adversarial Frontier (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LRobust Body Exposure (RoBE): A Graph-based Dynamics Modeling Approach to Manipulating Blankets over People (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)SLURP! Spectroscopy of Liquids Using Robot Pre-Touch Sensing (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went52 listed, 13% to industry
Industry 2Academia 13
Most often to
- Genesis AI
- Meta
Also to
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Columbia University
- Georgia Tech
Apply to CMUFall 2027
CMU SCS Computer Science PhD
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- TOEFL / IELTS / Duolingo (F-1/J-1 non-native speakers)
- Fee
- USD 100 (USD 80 by early deadline)
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