Manipulation & Environmental Robotics Lab
MER Lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute conducts research on robotic manipulation strategies and environmental applications. They integrate computer vision, control theory, and machine learning for skillful and robust manipulation, including benchmarking for dexterous and soft robotics.
Notable achievements
Benchmarking efforts for robotic manipulation, dexterous manipulation, soft robot control research
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
Soft robotics for chemists.
Filip Ilievski, Aaron D. Mazzeo, R. Shepherd +2 more
Angewandte Chemie · 2011
Flexible Electronics and Devices as Human-Machine Interfaces for Medical Robotics
Wenzheng Heng, Samuel A. Solomon, Wei Gao
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2021
Biomolecular “lock-key” model-inspired cage/benzene ring structure chain-extension matching strategy for high performance of linear waterborne polyurethane toward application in recyclable soft robotics
Chen Zhou, Nana Zhao, Xiaoxiao Yang +5 more
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science · 2026
A hierarchical approach to imitation learning for manipulation tasks requiring time varying forces
Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
Optimization-based shape design of soft-rigid hybrid fingers for adaptive parallel robotic gripper
Yilun Sun, Zengwei Wang, Tim C. Lueth
Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics · 2026
VIA: Visual Interface Agent for Robot Control
Hengyuan Hu, Priya Sundaresan, Jensen Gao +1 more
2026