Ethan Kroll Gordon — accepted AI-conference papers

2026

Active Tactile Exploration for Rigid Body Pose and Shape Estimation

Ethan Kroll Gordon, Bruke Baraki, Hien Bui, Michael Posa

ICRA 2026poster

General robot manipulation requires the handling of previously unseen objects. Learning a physically accurate model at test time can provide significant benefits in data efficiency, predictability, and reuse between tasks. Tactile sensing can compliment vision with its robustness to occlusion, but i…

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2023

Towards General Single-Utensil Food Acquisition with Human-Informed Actions

Ethan Kroll Gordon, Amal Nanavati, Ramya Challa, Bernie Hao Zhu, Taylor Annette Kessler Faulkner, Siddhartha Srinivasa

CoRL 2023poster

Food acquisition with common general-purpose utensils is a necessary component of robot applications like in-home assistive feeding. Learning acquisition policies in this space is difficult in part because any model will need to contend with extensive state and actions spaces. Food is extremely dive…

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