Mohamad Yani
Papers
7
Total Citations
21
H-Index
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About
Mohamad Yani is a robotics researcher dedicated to making home-care robots safe, intelligent, and truly helpful for the elderly. His work centers on three interconnected challenges: safe manipulation, intuitive human-robot interaction, and robust autonomous navigation. Yani’s key contribution is an ecological-inspired system design that equips robots with the awareness to perform delicate tasks—like grasping, placing, and handing over objects—without causing injury, a critical shift from industrial safety to human-centered care. He has also advanced activity recognition using multi-modal communication datasets, enabling robots to better interpret human actions and respond appropriately. In navigation, Yani developed an obstacle prediction network that allows robots to safely traverse complex indoor environments cluttered with furniture and obstacles. His research on topological mapping and interactive adaptation of hand-over motions further refines how robots share cognitive spaces and adjust their movements for human comfort. With over 20 citations across his most-cited papers, Yani’s work is steadily building a foundation for the next generation of assistive robots—machines that don’t just perform tasks, but do so with the care and awareness needed to support vulnerable populations in their own homes.
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