Daniela Rus
Director, CSAIL; Panasonic Professor
Studies robotics, including soft robots, self-driving cars for mobility on demand, and rapid robot design and fabrication.
Daniela Rus's lab at MIT works on autonomous vehicles & drones, soft, surgical & micro robots and geometry processing & modeling. 136 papers since 2023, 81 at top venues, mostly ICRA and IROS. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 35/ year
- at T1 venues
- 60%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 13 papers2026 · T1 8 · collecting
- 31 papers2025 · T1 19
- 39 papers2024 · T1 24
- 53 papers2023 · T1 30
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, IROS, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Soft, surgical & micro robots22 papers
- Autonomous vehicles & drones13 papers
- Geometry processing & modeling2 papers
- studies robotics0 papers
- self-driving0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
202613 papers
- ICLR (T1)ActiveDPO: Active Direct Preference Optimization for Sample-Efficient Alignment (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Colonial Architectures for Centimeter-Scale Underwater Robot Swarms (opens in a new tab)
- Adv. Intell. Syst.Cover Feature: Myoelectric Origami-Based Soft Robotic Knee Exoskeleton to Enhance Sit-to-Stand Assistance in Elderly Populations (Adv. Intell. Syst. 4/2026) (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Flex: End-to-End Text-Instructed Visual Navigation From Foundation Model Features (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Human Insights Driven Latent Space for Different Driving Perspectives: A Unified Encoder for Efficient Multi-Task Inference (opens in a new tab)
- TPAMI (T1)Kernel Reboot: Breaking the Boundaries of Neural Tangent Kernels for Neural Fields (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Learning to Control the Whole-body Shape of a Soft Robotic Arm in Unknown Situations (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. RoboticsMA-APD: Multiagent Asynchronous Probability-Decomposed Policy Gradient for Time-Constrained Moving Target Search (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)MEM1: Learning to Synergize Memory and Reasoning for Efficient Long-Horizon Agents (opens in a new tab)
- Adv. Intell. Syst.Myoelectric Origami-Based Soft Robotic Knee Exoskeleton to Enhance Sit-to-Stand Assistance in Elderly Populations (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)RealTwin: Concept Graph Representation and Grounding Framework for Reality-Preserving Digital Twin Reconstruction (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Select Less, Drive Better: Efficient and Generalizable E2E Autonomous Driving With Foundation Models via Stochastic Patch Selection (opens in a new tab)
202531 papers
- Sci. Robotics"Data will solve robotics and automation: True or false?": A debate (opens in a new tab)
- ISSCC1.2 From Chips to Thoughts: Building Physical Intelligence into Robotic Systems (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)ABNet: Adaptive explicit-Barrier Net for Safe and Scalable Robot Learning (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Adaptive Walker: User Intention and Terrain Aware Intelligent Walker with High-Resolution Tactile and IMU Sensor (opens in a new tab)
- HPECAdvancing AI Challenges for the United States Department of the Air Force* (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)AI-Enhanced Automatic Design of Efficient Underwater Gliders (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Compress to Impress: Efficient LLM Adaptation Using a Single Gradient Step on 100 Samples (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Contact-Aware Safety in Soft Robots Using High-Order Control Barrier and Lyapunov Functions (opens in a new tab)
- Nat.Controlling diverse robots by inferring Jacobian fields with deep networks (opens in a new tab)
- GetMobile Mob. Comput. Commun.Decoding Your Ride: What Information Builds Human Trust on Real Roads? (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftDesign of Trimmed Helicoid Soft-Rigid Hybrid Robots (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Generating Out-of-Distribution Scenarios Using Language Models (opens in a new tab)
202439 papers
- UbiComp CompanionAdaptive In-Vehicle Virtual Reality for Reducing Motion Sickness: Manipulating Passenger Posture During Driving Events (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Approximating Robot Configuration Spaces with few Convex Sets using Clique Covers of Visibility Graphs (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Competitive Multi-Team Behavior in Dynamic Flight Scenarios (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Medical ImagingConcept Graph Neural Networks for Surgical Video Understanding (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)DETAIL: Task DEmonsTration Attribution for Interpretable In-context Learning (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Directly 3D Printed, Pneumatically Actuated Multi-Material Robotic Hand (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Drive Anywhere: Generalizable End-to-end Autonomous Driving with Multi-modal Foundation Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Embedded air channels transform soft lattices into sensorized grippers (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Exploring Latent Pathways: Enhancing the Interpretability of Autonomous Driving with a Variational Autoencoder (opens in a new tab)
- UbiComp CompanionExploring Potential Application Areas of Artificial Intelligence-Infused System for Engagement Recognition: Insights from Special Education Experts (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Follow Anything: Open-Set Detection, Tracking, and Following in Real-Time (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Gaussian Splatting to Real World Flight Navigation Transfer with Liquid Networks (opens in a new tab)
202353 papers
- IROS (T1)A Fabrication and Simulation Recipe for Untethering Soft-Rigid Robots with Cable-Driven Stiffness Modulation (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftA Modular Bio-inspired Robotic Hand with High Sensitivity (opens in a new tab)
- RoboticaAdvanced soft robot modeling in ChainQueen (opens in a new tab)
- ISERAn Experimental Study of Model-Based Control for Planar Handed Shearing Auxetics Robots (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)AutoCoreset: An Automatic Practical Coreset Construction Framework (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. RoboticsBarrierNet: Differentiable Control Barrier Functions for Learning of Safe Robot Control (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)BEVFusion: Multi-Task Multi-Sensor Fusion with Unified Bird's-Eye View Representation (opens in a new tab)
- J. Field RoboticsCover Image, Volume 40, Number 8, December 2023 (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. RoboticsCross-Entropy Regularized Policy Gradient for Multirobot Nonadversarial Moving Target Search (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Dataset Distillation with Convexified Implicit Gradients (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Deep Learning on Home Drone: Searching for the Optimal Architecture (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Tracking Control of an Autonomous Surface Vessel in Natural Waters (opens in a new tab)
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