Physical Intelligence & Embodied Robotics Lab
PIER Lab at KIST studies how robots can physically interact with and perceive the real world. The lab bridges AI and embodied intelligence through force-aware sensing, visuomotor policies, and whole-body control for agile contact-rich manipulation.
Recent publications
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Intention-aware hybrid motion-force control with weighted normal estimation for telerobotic ultrasonic testing
Yukui Zhang, Fangyu Peng, Chen Chen +7 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2027
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
Vision and force-guided robotic system for autonomous nut threading with cross-threading detection
Kevin Wellington, Musa K. Jouaneh, Jessica Tingley +2 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
An Embodied Simulation Platform, Benchmark, and Data-Efficient Augmentation Framework for Wet-Lab Robotics
Zhe Liu, Huanbo Jin, Zhaohui Du +8 more
2026
What Are We Actually Benchmarking in Robot Manipulation?
Tianchong Jiang, Xiangshan Tan, Samuel Wheeler +3 more
2026
DLO-Lab: Benchmarking Deformable Linear Object Manipulations with Differentiable Physics
Junyi Cao, Yian Wang, Ziyan Xiong +3 more
2026