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Undergraduate researcher Billy Madden presented the our paper, "A Multimodal Data Collection Framework for Dialogue-Driv...
08/18/2026

Undergraduate researcher Billy Madden presented the our paper, "A Multimodal Data Collection Framework for Dialogue-Driven Assistive Robotics to Clarify Ambiguities: A Wizard-of-Oz Pilot Study," at BioRob 2026 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Tipu presented our paper called TriSaFe-Trans at the IEEE RAS/EMBS 11th International Conference on Biomedical Robotics ...
08/14/2026

Tipu presented our paper called TriSaFe-Trans at the IEEE RAS/EMBS 11th International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2026), held August 1 to 4, 2026 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Dr. Babaiasl and Guangping Liu Attended the Clare Boothe Luce Conference in New York.
08/06/2026

Dr. Babaiasl and Guangping Liu Attended the Clare Boothe Luce Conference in New York.

07/31/2026

🤖Physical AI is evolving in two different directions.

GENE.01 uses full-body multimodal skin to sense touch, proximity, force, and temperature.

Meanwhile, Generalist’s GEN-1 is designed to operate through many different end effectors from five-fingered hands to specialized tools.

⁉️The contrast raises a larger question:
should advanced robots resemble humans, or should their intelligence adapt to whatever body and tool best fits the task?

One system is learning to feel through a humanoid body, The other is learning to act through many kinds of “hands.”

⁉️Which approach do you think will matter more?

Footage: Generative Bionics and Generalist
Source reporting: IEEE Spectrum

07/24/2026

‏Two teleoperated humanoid robots have been used to complete live surgeries in a world-first preclinical trial at UC San Diego.
‏One procedure paired a humanoid robot with a human surgical assistant. Another used two humanoid robots working side by side. Human surgeons controlled every movement remotely while the robots handled standard laparoscopic instruments.
‏The trial involved preclinical animal subjects, not human patients, and the robots were not autonomous. The Nature study demonstrates technical feasibility—not clinical readiness. Precision, reliability, latency, and safety still require substantial improvement before humanoid systems could be used in routine patient care.

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Footage: UC San Diego Advanced Robotics and Controls Lab
Reporting: IEEE Spectrum
Study: Nature, “In vivo feasibility study of humanoid robots in surgery”

07/16/2026

RoboCup 2026 staged the first full 11-vs-11 soccer match played by humanoid robots on real hardware. B-Human of Bremen defeated HTWK Robots of Leipzig 4-0 in Incheon, South Korea. The robots are still far from human match speed, but coordinating 22 autonomous machines on a live field marks a significant robotics milestone.



Footage: RoboCup. Source reporting: IEEE Spectrum.

05/27/2026

TriSaFe-Trans is a safety-aware multimodal intent recognition pipeline for assistive robotics, developed in the Mecharithm Lab at Saint Louis University.

The paper fuses EEG (brain), EMG (muscle), and eye-tracking signals through a lightweight tri-modal transformer with reliability-gated attention, then applies a safety policy layer that decides whether the robot should act. The pipeline is demonstrated on a Kinova Gen3 arm performing five everyday tasks: reaching for a clock, picking up a dropped bottle, toggling a fan, adjusting a plant, and waving.

Accepted for oral presentation at BioRob 2026, Edmonton.

📄 Code: https://github.com/madibabaiasl/SafeIntentDetectionPaper
📚 Wiki: https://github.com/madibabaiasl/SafeIntentDetectionPaper/wiki

Authors: Tipu Sultan, Kody Cool, Guangping Liu, Gajapriya Tamilselvan, and Madi Babaiasl

Supported by SLU’s Research Institute, the Clare Boothe Luce Foundation, and SLU’s AEME Department.

What better way to wrap up the semester and finals week than with a lab cookout? Lots of food and games!
05/09/2026

What better way to wrap up the semester and finals week than with a lab cookout? Lots of food and games!

The Mecharithm lab represented their work at the NSF M3X PI meeting, presenting ongoing research and engaging with other...
05/08/2026

The Mecharithm lab represented their work at the NSF M3X PI meeting, presenting ongoing research and engaging with other researchers across the program.

People in the photo:
- Guangping Liu, PhD student
- Dr. Madi, CBL assistant professor of robotics, SLU
- Dr. Nadia Figueroa, Assistant Professor , UPenn
- Dr. Maria Kyrarini, Assistant Professor, SCU

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