Papers
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Total Citations
522
H-Index
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About
Alexis Maldonado is a pioneering roboticist whose work bridges the gap between autonomous manipulation and human-robot collaboration. His research focuses on three key areas: robotic perception for grasping, human-safe physical interaction, and cloud-connected robotics. Maldonado’s most celebrated contribution is the "Robotic roommates making pancakes" project (222 citations), which demonstrated two robots collaboratively retrieving web instructions and executing complex cooking tasks—a landmark in open-ended robotic learning. He advanced robot dexterity through fingertip torque sensing and time-of-flight range data, enabling robust grasping of unmodeled objects (58 and 35 citations, respectively). His work on safe physical interaction with human co-workers (50 citations) laid foundations for collaborative industrial robotics. Maldonado also contributed to ubiquitous computing by extending the Player/Stage middleware for sensor-rich environments (37 citations), and championed open robotics research using web-based knowledge services (18 citations). His studies on human motor control during grasping (17 citations) informed more natural robot movement. With over 500 total citations, Maldonado’s research remains essential reading for anyone interested in robots that perceive, plan, and physically cooperate in unstructured human environments.
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Top Papers
- 1Robotic roommates making pancakes222 citations · 2011
- 2Improving robot manipulation through fingertip perception58 citations · 2012
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- 7Open robotics research using web-based knowledge services18 citations · 2016
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- 9Robotic Roommates Making Pancakes - Look Into Perception-Manipulation Loop11 citations · 2011
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