Kris Hauser
Professor
Studies robot motion planning and control, including manipulation, legged locomotion and robot-assisted medicine.
Kris Hauser's lab at UIUC works on planning, control & multi-robot systems, legged locomotion & humanoids and data management & big data. 39 papers since 2023, 4 at top venues, mostly RA-L and T-RO. 5 PhD students and 1 master's student. 40 alumni, most often to Amazon and Bosch. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 10/ year
- at T1 venues
- 10%
- PhD students
- 5
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 40
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 5 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 13 papers2025 · T1 1
- 12 papers2024 · T1 2
- 9 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: RA-L, T-RO, ICRA, IJRR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems11 papers
- Data management & big data2 papers
- Legged locomotion & humanoids0 papers
- robot motion0 papers
- legged locomotion0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20265 papers
- RA-LFlexible Multitask Learning with Factorized Diffusion Policy
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), June .Localized Graph-Based Neural Dynamics Models for Terrain Manipulation
- IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), August .Low-Cost Articulated Arm Navigation System for External Ventricular Drain Placement
- Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS), July .SPARCS: Simulation-Ready Cluttered Scene Estimation via Physics-Aware Joint Shape and Pose Optimization
- International Journal of Medical Robotics Research (JMRR), 11(01n02):2640001, . doi: 10.1142/S2424905X26400015.The EYESIGHT Robotic Eye Examination System for Non-Mydriatic Indirect Retinal Imaging on Unconstrained Individuals
202513 papers
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, . Print ISSN: 2576-3202. Online ISSN: 2576-3202. doi: 10.1109/TMRB. .3573390A Low-Cost Articulated Arm Navigation System for External Ventricular Drain Placement
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May .Autonomous Excavation of Challenging Terrain using Oscillatory Primitives and Adaptive Impedance Control
- IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), August .Cutaway View Learning for Visually-Guided Assembly with Crane
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May .Estimating High-Resolution Neural Stiffness Fields using Visuotactile Sensors
- IEEE International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR), May . Best Paper Award NomineeeEYESIGHT: Eye Examination System with Intelligent Guidance and Human Tracking
- German Robotics Conference, March .Manipulation-Enhanced Spatial Mapping via Belief Prediction
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), June .Map Space Belief Prediction for Manipulation-Enhanced Mapping
- IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October .Memory-Efficient Real Time Many-Class 3D Metric-Semantic Mapping
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), June .Particle-Grid Neural Dynamics for Learning Deformable Object Models from Depth Images
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May .Safe Leaf Manipulation for Accurate Shape and Pose Estimation of Occluded Fruits
- RA-L WorkshopTowards a Characterization of the Complexity of Social Robot Navigation Scenarios
- T-RO (T1)Trajectory Optimization and Contact Selection for Contact-rich Manipulation with High-Fidelity Geometry
202412 papers
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), July . Also in ICRA Workshop on Representing and Manipulating Deformable Objects, May 17, . Best Workshop Paper AwardAdaptiGraph: Material-Adaptive Graph-Based Neural Dynamics for Robotic Manipulation
- IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October .Adaptive Trajectory Database Learning for Nonlinear Control with Hybrid Gradient Optimization
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), September .AlignDiff: Aligning Diffusion Models for General Few-Shot Segmentation
- International Journal on Social Robotics, January 30, . doi:10.1007/s12369-023-01095-wAnalysis and Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition
- RA-LAttentiveness Map Estimation for Haptic Teleoperation of Mobile Robot Obstacle Avoidance and Approach
- IJRR (T1)Boundary-Aware Value Function Generation for Safe Stochastic Motion Planning
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), July .Experience-Based Multi-Agent Path Finding with Narrow Corridors
- International Journal of Social Robotics, January 14, . doi:10.1007/s12369-023-01090-1.Immersive Commodity Telepresence with the TRINA Robot Avatar
- AIAA SciTech, January 8, .Learning and Autonomy for Extraterrestrial Terrain Sampling: An Experience Report from OWLAT Deployment
- ICRA (T1)On the Overconfidence Problem in Semantic 3D Mapping.
- RSS WorkshopSimultaneous Trajectory Optimization and Contact Selection for Contact-rich Manipulation with High-Fidelity Geometry
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), November . Also in ICRA Workshop on Representing and Manipulating Deformable Objects, May 17, .Structured Bayesian Meta-Learning for Data-Efficient Visual-Tactile Model Estimation
20239 papers
- T-RO (T1)Algorithms and Systems for Manipulating Multiple Objects
- RA-LAutomatically-Tuned Model Predictive Control for an Underwater Soft Robot
- ICRA WorkshopCommodity Telepresence with Team AVATRINA's Nursebot in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals
- ICRA WorkshopEfficient Automatic Tuning for Data-driven Model Predictive Control via Meta-Learning
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May .Estimating Tactile Models of Heterogeneous Deformable Objects in Real Time
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), July .Few-shot Adaptation for Manipulating Granular Materials Under Domain Shift
- CVPR WorkshopGAPS: Few-Shot Incremental Semantic Segmentation via Guided Copy-Paste Synthesis
- ICRA WorkshopPan-Tilt-Roll Televisualization With Adjustable Baseline Stereo
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), July .Simultaneous Trajectory Optimization and Contact Selection for Multi-Modal Manipulation Planning
Where alumni went40 listed, 65% to industry
Industry 13Academia 7
Most often to
- Amazon
- Bosch
- Apple
Also to
- Caltech
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Cornell University
Apply to UIUCFall 2027
UIUC Siebel Computer Science PhD
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- Single round
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- GRE
- optional
- English
- TOEFL iBT / IELTS
- Fee
- USD 90
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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