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Arnav Balaji

3 accepted papers

2026

Mixed-Initiative Dialog for Human-Robot Collaborative Manipulation

ICRA 2026poster

Effective robotic systems for long-horizon human-robot collaboration must adapt to a wide range of human partners, whose physical behavior, willingness to assist, and understanding of the robot's capabilities may change over time. This demands a tightly coupled communication loop that grants both ag…

2026

OopsieVerse: A Safety Benchmark with Damage-Aware Simulation for Robot Manipulation

RSS 2026poster

While robotic manipulation capabilities have advanced rapidly, physical safety remains a major barrier to deploying household robots: task success is insufficient if the robot damages itself or its surroundings. Simulation offers a harm-free alternative to costly and dangerous real-world training an…

2025

SafeMimic: Towards Safe and Autonomous Human-to-Robot Imitation for Mobile Manipulation

RSS 2025poster

For robots to become efficient helpers in the home, they must learn to perform new mobile manipulation tasks simply by watching humans perform them. Learning from a single video demonstration from a human is challenging as the robot needs to first extract from the demo what needs to be done and how,…

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