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Austin Patel

3 accepted papers

2026

In-The-Wild Compliant Manipulation with UMI-FT

ICRA 2026poster

Many manipulation tasks require careful force modulation. With insufficient force the task may fail, while excessive force could cause damage. The high cost, bulky size and fragility of commercial force/torque (F/T) sensors have limited large-scale, force-aware policy learning. We introduce UMI-FT, …

2021

Small Autonomous Robot Actuator (SARA): A Solar-Powered Wireless MEMS Gripper

ICRA 2021poster

Solar-powered actuation of a 15 mN electrostatic MEMS gripper was demonstrated while wirelessly triggered by IEEE 802.15.4 RF signals. The solar-powered gripper was shown to actuate at a rate of 640 um/s. The complete system is composed of three capacitors and three chips: MEMS gripper, microprocess…

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