Open tours at the Clayton HRI lab (March-June 2025)
The Human-Robot Interaction team hosted a number of open tours and presentations at the Clayton Robotics HRI indoor lab. These tours help us share our work with a wider audience from both academia and industry.
Below we highlight three Clayton HRI lab tours between March and June 2025.
Next Gen Graduate Program lab tour on 3 Jun 2025
About 60 attendees from the CSIRO Next Generation Graduates Program (https://www.csiro.au/en/work-with-us/funding-programs/funding/next-generation-graduates-programs) visited the HRI lab on 3 Jun 2025 as part of the two-day event, including PhD students and their supervisors from academia and industry.
Samith Ashan, a CSIRO Early Research Career Engineering Fellow in the HRI team, demonstrates the ALOHA robot to the attendees
Dr Yanran Jiang, a research scientist in the HRI team, presents her work on proactive robot alerts to the attendees
RTCML25 lab tour on 28 Mar 2025
The HRI lab participated in the open lab tours at the CSIRO Cutting Edge Symposium on Real Time Control Decisions using Machine Learning (RTCML25: https://wp.csiro.au/rtcml25/). Around 70 attendees from academia and industry, mainly in manufacturing-related sectors, visited the lab.
Dr Leimin Tian, a senior research scientist and team leader of the HRI team, presents an overview of the team’s research to the attendees
Dr Lingheng Meng, a CSIRO Early Research Career Postdoctoral Fellow in the HRI team, demonstrates the Franka robot and its simulation in Isaac Lab to the attendees
HRI 2025 Conference lab tour on 7 Mar 2025
The HRI lab participated in the open lab tours at the 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2025: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2025/). Around 30 attendees from the international research community visited the lab.
Dr Kavi Katuwandeniya, a CSIRO Early Research Career Postdoctoral Fellow in the HRI team, presents her research on intermittent robot supervision using vision language models
Richard Attfield, a PhD student in the HRI team co-supervised with Monash Robotics, presents his research on Large Language Model based explainable robot alerts to the attendees