The Yale GRAB Lab

The GRAB Lab conducts research into robot manipulation, dexterous grasping and manipulation, upper-limb prosthetics, human grasping and manipulation, and assistive and rehabilitation devices, among others. Some details on our established work can be found on the Research and Publications pages.

Prof. Dollar recently started a new group at Yale tentatively called Yale Tech for Conservation.
We have recently begun to make some of our robotic hand designs freely available as Open Hardware through the Yale OpenHand Project.
Along with those efforts, we are beginning a larger effort to encourage, centralize, and host other similar Open Robot Hardware efforts through our site OpenRobotHardware.org.
Our lab founded (along with Sidd Srinivasa (CMU) and Pieter Abbeel (Berkeley)) and leads the YCB Object and Model Set benchmarking effort. .
We have recently release a large dataset consisting of tagged video and image data of 28 hours of human grasping movements in unstructured environments: Yale Human Grasping Dataset.
Prof. Dollar is the editor and co-founder of RoboticsCourseWare.org, an open repository for robotics pedagogical materials.

Openings

We are currently seeking exceptional students to join our team as PhD and Master's candidates. Applicants should have a background in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or a closely related field. Quality of the applicant is more important than specific background, although hardware and experimental experience is preferable. Interested students should contact Prof. Dollar and provide a copy of their resume and a brief description of their interests for graduate school.

Recent News

April 4 - GRAB Lab PhD Student Josh Grace was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congrats, Josh!

Aug 1 - Grad student Sam Noh was awarded Second Place in the ASME Student Mechanism and Robotics Design Competition for his legged robot design.

March 3 - Andrew Morgan successfully defended his dissertation today. Way to go, Andy!

May 17 - PhD Student Andrew Morgan was selected to attend the RSS Pioneers Workshop. Congrats, Andy!

April 6 - GRAB Lab PhD Student Hector Castillo was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congrats, Hector!

December 18 - One of our papers was selected as a Top 5 Editor's Pick from Science Robotics (IF 23.75) for 2021! Congrats to Hang and the other authors!

December 17 - Walter Bircher successfully defended his dissertation today. Way to go, Walter!

April 29 - Michael Leddy successfully defended his dissertation today. Congratulations Mike!

April 1 - Two papers from the lab were accepted into Science Robotics, for a special issue on Robot Manipulation. Congratulations to Walter, Hang, and Andrew!

March 11 - Yuri Gloumakov successfully defended his dissertation today. Congratulations Yuri!

May 1 - GRAB Lab Postdoc Kaiyu Hang has accepted a tenure-track faculty job at Rice University, and will start next summer. Congrats, Hang!

April 15 - The GRAB Lab-led special issue in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters on Benchmarking Robotics Grasping and Manipulation has been published, with the papers accessible here

March 30 - Former GRAB Lab Postdoc/Scientist Adam Spiers has accepted a tenure-track faculty job at Imperial College, London, and will start this summer. Congrats, Ad!