Bernadette Bucher
Assistant Professor, Robotics
Studies embodied AI for mobile manipulation, including vision-language grounding, navigation and uncertainty-aware active perception.
Bernadette Bucher's lab at Michigan works on robot perception & SLAM, manipulation & robot learning and embodied & active vision. 8 papers since 2023, 7 at top venues, mostly CoRL and CVPR. 9 PhD students and 4 master's students. 8 alumni, most often to Apple and Robotics Engineer. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 2/ year
- at T1 venues
- 88%
- PhD students
- 9
- MS students
- 4
- alumni listed
- 8
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 1 papers2025 · T1 1
- 5 papers2024 · T1 4
- 0 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CoRL, CVPR, IROS, RSS, T-RO
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning5 papers
- Embodied & active vision1 paper
- mobile manipulation1 paper
- Robot perception & SLAM0 papers
- grounding0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20262 papers
- CVPR (T1)Expanding Spatial and Temporal Context for Robotic Imitation Learning With Scene Graphs
- RSS (T1)HydroShear: Hydroelastic Shear Simulation for Tactile Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning
20251 paper
- CVPR (T1)ASHiTA: Automatic Scene-grounded HIerarchical Task Analysis
20245 papers
- CoRL (T1)Continuously Improving Mobile Manipulation with Autonomous Real-World RL
- T-RO (T1)EVORA: Deep Evidential Traversability Learning for Risk-Aware Off-Road Autonomy
- CoRL (T1)Task-Oriented Hierarchical Object Decomposition for Visuomotor Control
- IROS (T1)Uncertainty Aware Deployment of Pre-trained Task Conditioned Imitation Learning Policies
- Best Paper in Cognitive Robotics at ICRA . 1 of 3,937 submissionsVLFM: Vision-Language Frontier Maps for Zero-Shot Semantic Navigation
Where alumni went8 listed, 43% to industry
Industry 3Academia 4
Most often to
- Apple
- Robotics Engineer
Also to
- Carnegie Mellon University
- PhD at University of Florida
Apply to MichiganFall 2027
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