Can Multi-Fingered Robots Transform Shipboard Operations and Autonomous Maintenance?

USC Viterbi researcher received Office of Naval Research's Young Investigator Program award with Study on dexterous robotics.

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

In dynamic, unstructured environments like ship decks and even home kitchens, robots today still struggle to perform precision tasks such as tightening bolts or handling wires. This makes critical ship maintenance tasks difficult.

USC researcher, Erdem Bıyık, aims to advance robots' finger manipulation and integrate human feedback to enable real-time learning for robots in an upcoming three-year, $750,000 project funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR).