🔬 University#9 Los Angeles, CA, USA· Est. 1880
University of Southern California — Robotics & AI
Known for socially assistive robotics — robots that help autistic children, stroke patients, and elderly people through social interaction. A world leader in HRI for healthcare.
social robotsrehabilitationhuman-robot interactionmulti-roboteldercare
Notable achievements
Autistic children therapy robots, post-stroke rehabilitation robots, eldercare companion robots, Maja Matarić's groundbreaking HRI work.
Notable work
Socially Assistive RobotsSTEM robots for autism
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
HRI
Open access
6G Communication Networks Enabling Embodied Agents: Architecture and Prototype
Lipeng Dai, Luping Xiang, Kun Yang
2026
HRI
Open access
Robots That Know What to Ask: Recovering Misaligned Rewards through Targeted Explanations
Helena Merker, Nick Walker, Andreea Bobu
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
GesVLA: Gesture-Aware Vision-Language-Action Model Embedded Representations
Wenxuan Guo, Ziyuan Li, Meng Zhang +7 more
2026
LEARNING
Open access
Superhuman Safe and Agile Racing through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Ismail Geles, Leonard Bauersfeld, Markus Wulfmeier +1 more
2026