Perla Maiolino
Associate Professor of Engineering Science
Gives robots a sense of touch through large-area tactile sensing and soft sensing for manipulation.
Perla Maiolino's lab at Oxford works on robot perception & SLAM and manipulation & robot learning. 38 papers since 2023, 7 at top venues, mostly IROS and RA-L. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 10/ year
- at T1 venues
- 18%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 7 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 11 papers2025 · T1 2
- 8 papers2024 · T1 3
- 12 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: IROS, RA-L, CoRL, ICRA, T-RO
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning7 papers
- sensing6 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM5 papers
- touch2 papers
- sense0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20267 papers
- Advanced Intelligent SystemsA Two‐Stage Characterization Pipeline and Open‐Source Framework for Reproducible Tactile Sensing (opens in a new tab)
- Advanced Intelligent SystemsCooptimized Sensing and Sole Mechanics Enable Embodied‐Intelligence Design of User‐Specific Smart Footwear (opens in a new tab)
- Advanced Intelligent SystemsGeneralized Task‐Driven Design of Soft Robots via Reduced‐Order Finite Element Method‐Based Surrogate Modeling (opens in a new tab)
- SensorsOn the Characterisation of the Time-of-Flight VL53L5CX Sensor by STMicroelectronics for Indoor Robotics Applications (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LQuadruped obstacle avoidance and footstep planning with distributed low-cost time-of-flight sensors (opens in a new tab)
- AIMSestosenso: proxy-tactile perception for intelligent and safe human–robot interaction (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics & Automation MagazineSpecial Issue on Arts and Robotics [From the Guest Editors] (opens in a new tab)
202511 papers
- IEEE AccessA Camera-Embedded Self-Adaptable Finger With Multi-Modal Sensing Capabilities for Robotic Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)A proxy-tactile reactive control for robots moving in clutter (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LAn End-to-End Framework for Modeling Pneumatic Soft Robots Based on Differentiable Finite Element Methods (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftCompliant Beaded-String Jamming For Variable Stiffness Anthropomorphic Fingers (opens in a new tab)
- —Design, Fabrication and Calibration of an Embroidery Textile Tactile Sensor Array (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftJAMMit! Monolithic 3D-Printing of a Bead Jamming Soft Pneumatic Arm (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of the Royal Society InterfaceMechanics of pressurized cellular sheets (opens in a new tab)
- International Journal of Mechanical SciencesMorphing surfaces inspired by thick-panel origami (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftSoft and highly-integrated optical fiber bending sensors for proprioception in multi-material 3D printed fingers (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Tiny Lidars for Manipulator Self-Awareness: Sensor Characterization and Initial Localization Experiments
- CASETouch-to-Touch Translation - Learning the Mapping Between Heterogeneous Tactile Sensing Technologies (opens in a new tab)
20248 papers
- RoboSoftImproving the Loading and Sensing Performance of a Soft Actuator Using an Internal Spine (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftOn Feedback Error Learning for Adaptive Soft Robot Control (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftReinforcement Learning Controllers for Soft Robots Using Learned Environments (opens in a new tab)
- Robotics ReportsSPADA: a toolbox of designing soft pneumatic actuators for shape matching based on surrogate modeling (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)TacLink-Integrated Robot Arm toward Safe Human-Robot Interaction (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)TactGen: tactile sensory data generation via zero-shot sim-to-real transfer (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)The design of a sensorized laryngoscope training system for pediatric intubation (opens in a new tab)
- Soft RoboticsToward Onboard Proportional Control of Multi-Chamber Soft Pneumatic Robots: A Magnetorheological Elastomer Valve Array (opens in a new tab)
202312 papers
- IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENTA Sensor Placement Benchmarking Method With Principal Component Analysis (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)A tactile feedback insertion strategy for peg-in-hole tasks (opens in a new tab)
- ADVANCED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMSA Toolbox for Designing 3D-Printing-Ready Pneumatic Circuits for Controlling Soft Robots (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftDesign optimization for bellow soft pneumatic actuators in shape-matching (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftEDAMS: an Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Multi-grasp Soft sensing object recognition (opens in a new tab)
- IOP Conference Series Materials Science and EngineeringEmbodied active tactile perception (opens in a new tab)
- Materials & DesignLinkage-based three-dimensional kinematic metamaterials with programmable constant Poisson’s ratio (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Sensors JournalMathematical Model and Experimental Characterization of Vertically Stacked Capacitive Tactile Sensors (opens in a new tab)
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in BioinformaticsPreface
- ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALSRubber-Like Soft Lattice Structure for Anti-Ballooning in Fluidic Elastic Soft Robots (opens in a new tab)
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEETouch Technology in Affective Human-, Robot-, and Virtual-Human Interactions: A Survey (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Touching a NeRF: leveraging neural radiance fields for tactile sensory data generation
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Apply to Oxford2027-28
DPhil in Computer Science
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