| Sep 28, 2026 | Our paper “AURA: Asymptotically Optimal Uncertainty-Robust Replanning Algorithm for Kinodynamic Systems” has been accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)! Congratulations to Ali Golestaneh, Zhuoyun Zhong, and Donghyung Lee! |
| Sep 20, 2026 | ELPIS Lab, along with Professor Jing Xiao, received an Amazon WPI Robotics Engineering Award gift for 83k$ to conduct research on contact-rich planning for humanoid manipulation. |
| Sep 04, 2026 | Our paper “STRIPS-WM: Learning Grounded Propositional STRIPS-style World Models from Images” has been accepted to CoRL 2026! Congratulations to Abhiroop Ajith! |
| Aug 15, 2026 | Jaskrit Singh is joining the ELPIS Lab as a Ph.D. student in Fall 2026. Welcome! |
| Jul 02, 2026 | ActivePusher won the Best Student Paper Award at the Hellenic Robotics Forum (HRF) 2026! Congratulations to Zhuoyun Zhong and Ali Golestaneh! |
| Jun 04, 2026 | ActivePusher won the Best Student Paper Award at ICRA 2026! Congratulations to Zhuoyun Zhong and Ali Golestaneh! |
| May 30, 2026 | Our paper ActivePusher: Active Learning and Planning with Residual Physics for Nonprehensile Manipulation led by Zhuoyun Zhong and Ali Golestaneh was accepted to ICRA2026 and is nominated for best paper award in the Planning and Control Category! |
| May 07, 2026 | The senior capstone project (MQP) on parachute packing from ELPIS lab, won the RBE department award! See the amazing video here. |
| Aug 29, 2025 | ELPIS Lab along with professor Jing Xiao received an Automotive Research Center grant for 170k$ to conduct research on real-time path planning in unmapped rough off-road terrains. |
| Jul 01, 2025 | ELPIS Lab was awarded the NSF-CRII grant for 175k$ to conduct research on how robots can learn abstract, symbolic representations from visual and execution data. |
| Jun 21, 2025 | ELPIS lab was at RSS2025 with one talk on MotionBenchMaker and a workshop paper on active learning for non-prehensile manipulation. |
| May 30, 2025 | ELPIS Lab along with professor Jing Xiao received an Amazon WPI Robotics Engineering Award gift for 75k$ to conduct research on whole-body planning for a humanoid robot. |
| May 15, 2025 | The first cohort of 8 M.S. students from the ELPIS Lab has graduated. Congratulations to everybody! |
| Mar 15, 2025 | Prof. Chamzas was an invited panelist for the Future Faculty Fellows at Rice University. |
| Jan 24, 2025 | Our paper “Multi-layer Motion Planning with Kinodynamic and Spatio-Temporal Constraints” has been accepted to ACM Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC) 2025! Congratulations to Abhiroop Ajith and Jeel Chatrola! |
| Nov 14, 2024 | Prof. Chamzas gave a talk at the UNH Robotics Seminar on “Learning and Planning for Robotic Manipulation: Bringing Theory to Practice.” |
| Aug 15, 2024 | Two new Ph.D. students, Abhiroop Ajith and Ali Golestaneh, are joining the ELPIS lab! |
| Aug 01, 2024 | The first paper of the ELPIS Lab titled “Expansion-GRR: Efficient Generation of Smooth Global Redundancy Resolution Roadmaps” has been accepted to IROS2024! Congrats Zhuoyun Zhong! |
| Jan 20, 2024 | Our preprint manuscript on Computing Efficient Global Redundancy Resolution Maps is available on Arxiv: |