DAIR Lab at ICRA 2026
I’ve been remiss in posting updates, but this is a big one. Next week, the lab will be traveling to Vienna for ICRA 2026!
Monday, June 1
Grey Sarmiento and Michael are co-organizing the Workshop on the Path Towards Generalizable Contact-Rich Robotics: Control and Representation all day!
- 1:30-2:30 Bibit Bianchini will join a panel for a discussion of Algorithms for Contact-Rich Control with Justin Carpentier, Hae-won Park, and Emo Todorov
- 2:30-3:30 Grey Sarmiento will give a spotlight talk for their preliminary work Components of Contact: An Analysis of Contact-Implicit Control Strategies on Manipulation Primitives
- 10:15-11:00 and 3:30-4:15 We’ll have three posters in the workshop all for preliminary results
In the Act to Sense to Act Better Workshop, Ethan Gordon will present a poster on [Active Tactile Pose and Shape Estimation of Highly Dynamic Objects] (https://openreview.net/pdf?id=o5d88RKvv5)
Tuesday, June 2
- 9:00-10:30 Bibit Bianchini has a poster for the RA-L paper Approximating Global Contact-Implicit MPC via Sampling and Local Complementarity showing real-time contact-implicit MPC for 3D non-prehensile manipulation.
- 11:50-12:00 Herbie Wright will present his RA-L paper Robust Bayesian Scene Reconstruction with Retrieval-Augmented Priors for Precise Grasping and Planning, work done before he joined the lab
Wednesday, June 3
- 9:00-10:30 Ethan Gordon has a poster for the ICRA paper Active Tactile Exploration for Rigid Body Pose and Shape Estimation, showing how a robot can feel around and actively learn the shape and changing pose of an unknown object.
- 11:40-11:50 Hien Bui will present the ICRA paper Push Anything: Single and Multi-Object Pushing from First Sight with Contact-Implicit MPC. Push Anythig is a Finalist for the Best Paper Award on Robot Manipulation and Locomotion! Congratulations to Hien, Yufeiyang, Haoran, Eric, Sid, Brian, Thomas and Bibit!
Friday, June 5
Ethan will present a poster at the RoboTac Workshop