I am looking for 3 PhD students to join our research group in Fall 2024. If you are a recently admitted CMU PhD student, please email me! zackory@cmu.edu
I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where I lead the Robotic Caregiving and Human Interaction (RCHI) Lab. My research focuses on developing new robot learning, mobile manipulation, and sensing methods, with applications in physical human-robot interaction and healthcare.
Previously, I received my PhD in Robotics at Georgia Tech advised by Charlie Kemp.
News
- Best Paper Award, Independence in the Home: A Wearable Interface for a Person with Quadriplegia to Teleoperate a Mobile Manipulator, at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2024
- Organizing RSS 2024 workshop on Learning for Assistive Robotics
- Organizing ICRA 2024 workshop on Exploring Role Allocation in Human-Robot Co-Manipulation
- Virtual Experience Chair for Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2023
- Area Chair for CoRL 2023
- Organizing RO-MAN 2023 special session on Human-Agent/Robot Interaction in Healthcare and Medicine
- Organizing ICRA 2023 workshop on Emerging paradigms for assistive robotic manipulation: from research labs to the real world
- Chair at IROS 2022 session on Art and Entertainment and Manipulation
- Co-chair at ICRA 2022 session on Physical HRI
- Area Chair for CoRL 2022
- Associate Editor for RO-MAN 2022
- Organizing IROS 2022 workshop Proximity Perception - Towards Next-Generation Multi-Modal Sensing in Soft Structures
- Invited talk at RSS 2022 workshop on Close Proximity Human-Robot Collaboration
- Invited talk at IROS 2021 workshop on Proximity Perception in Robotics
- Organizing an ICRA 2021 workshop Learning for Caregiving Robots
- Invited talk at ICRA 2021 workshop on Representing and Manipulating Deformable Objects
Contact
Email: zackory@cmu.edu
Office: Newell-Simon Hall 4627
Address
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
Teaching
Spring 2025: 16-467: Human-Robot Interaction
Fall 2024: 16-741: Mechanics of Manipulation
Spring 2024: 16-762: Mobile Manipulation
Fall 2023: 16-741: Mechanics of Manipulation
Spring 2023: 16-887: Robotic Caregivers and Intelligent Physical Collaboration
Fall 2022: 16-741: Mechanics of Manipulation
Spring 2022: 16-887: Robotic Caregivers and Intelligent Physical Collaboration
Spring 2021: BMED 4833/8813 - Robotic Caregivers
Spring 2020: BMED 4803/8813 - Robotic Caregivers
Extra links
You can find a recording of my Robotics PhD Defense at Georgia Tech here: https://youtu.be/3DYv8SlaP2w
In 2016, I participated in the 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum. Here are some photos from the 4th HLF.