Carina Kaeser — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

Individual and Collective Behaviors in Soft Robot Worms Inspired by Living Worm Blobs

Carina Kaeser, Junghan Kwon, Elio Challita, Harry Tuazon, Robert J. Wood, Saad Bhamla +1

ICRA 2025

California blackworms constitute a recently identified animal system exhibiting unusual collective behaviors, in which dozens to thousands of worms entangle to form a “blob” capable of actions like locomotion as an aggregate. In this paper we describe a system of pneumatic soft robots inspired by th

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2025

Physical Simulation with Force Feedback Aids Robot Factors Design

Carina Kaeser, Nathan Melenbrink, Allison Karp, Justin Werfel

ICRA 2025

“Robot factors” design, analogous to ergonomics for humans, seeks to create devices and equipment that can be readily operated by robots, by considering typical capabilities of current robots throughout the design process. While a number of principles and heuristics for robot factors design have bee

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