Josie Hughes
Tenure Track Assistant Professor
Leads the CREATE Lab for computational robot design and fabrication, using data-driven methods to design and build soft and dexterous robots.
Josie Hughes's lab at EPFL works on manipulation & robot learning and geometry processing & modeling. 82 papers since 2023, 25 at top venues, mostly IROS and ICRA. 17 PhD students. 6 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 21/ year
- at T1 venues
- 30%
- PhD students
- 17
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 6
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 31 papers2026 · T1 8 · collecting
- 51 papers2025 · T1 17
- 0 papers2024 · T1 0
- 0 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: IROS, ICRA, npj Robotics, Science Robotics, RA-L
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning20 papers
- design6 papers
- Geometry processing & modeling1 paper
- data-driven methods0 papers
- robot design0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202631 papers
- Nature Communications (T1)A detachable crawling robotic hand (opens in a new tab)
- Soft RoboticsA Multimodal, Multicontact, and Scalable Soft Robot Skin Enabled by Layered Structures (opens in a new tab)
- TPAMI (T1)A Survey of Behavior Foundation Model: Next-Generation Whole-Body Control System of Humanoid Robots (opens in a new tab)
- npj RoboticsAerial and ground locomotion of winged drones powered by a single actuator (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Reviews BioengineeringAesthetics as a core design dimension for human-centred robotic systems (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and EngineeringAn Underactuated Variable Stiffness Continuum Robot with Multi-Layer Jamming Spherical Joints (opens in a new tab)
- Physical Review D𝐵-jet fragmentation with 𝐵± →𝐽/𝜓𝐾± decays in √𝑠 =13 TeV 𝑝𝑝 collisions at LHCb (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftCross-Coupled Pneumatic–Cable–Driven Soft Robotic Arm for Overhead Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- Astronomical JournalData Release 1 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (opens in a new tab)
- EngineeringDesign, Characterization, and Application of a Continuously Tunable Wavelength Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging System for Measuring the Optical Properties of Fruits (opens in a new tab)
- IJRR (T1)Efficient model-based reinforcement learning for robot control via online optimization (opens in a new tab)
- Embodied Intelligence: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Natural, Artificial, and Hybrid SystemsEmbodied Artificial Intelligence: Enabling the Next Intelligence Revolution
202551 papers
- Communications Materials3D printing of self-healing longevous multi-sensory e-skin (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics8-DoFs Cable Driven Parallel Robots for Bimanual Teleoperation (opens in a new tab)
- Science Robotics (T1)A democratized bimodal model of research for soft robotics: Integrating slow and fast science (opens in a new tab)
- Frontiers in neuroimagingA graphical pipeline platform for MRS data processing and analysis: MRSpecLAB (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)A Knowledge-driven Adaptive Collaboration of LLMs for Enhancing Medical Decision-making (opens in a new tab)
- npj RoboticsADAPT-Teleop: robotic hand with human matched embodiment enables dexterous teleoperated manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- Advanced Materials TechnologiesAdhesive Double‐Network Granular Organogel E‐Skin (opens in a new tab)
- npj Flexible ElectronicsAn optical/electronic artificial skin extends the robotic sense to molecular sensing (opens in a new tab)
- Advanced ScienceAutomated Benchmarking of Variable‐Property Soft Robotic Fingertips to Enable Task‐Optimized Sensor Selection (opens in a new tab)
- npj RoboticsBabyBot: Robot with infant-like feeding behaviours and developmental oral skills (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftBehaviour Range Optimization of the Dexterous Robotic Open Parametric Hand (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)CAFEs: Cable-Driven Collaborative Floating End-Effectors for Agriculture Applications (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went6 listed
Apply to EPFLFall 2027
EDIC Computer and Communication Sciences PhD
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- Round 1
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- optional
- English
- TOEFL 100 / IELTS 7.0
- Fee
- none
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