Research Publications


  • Robot, Feed Thyself: Plugging In to Unmodified Electrical Outlets by Sensing Emitted AC Electric Fields. Brian Mayton, Louis LeGrand, Joshua R. Smith. Submitted to ICRA 2010.

  • Human-Guided Grasp Measures Improve Grasp Robustness on a Physical Robot. Ravi Balasubramanian, Ling Xu, Peter Brook, Joshua R. Smith, Yoky Matsuoka. Submitted to ICRA 2010.

  • An Electric Field Pretouch System for Grasping and Co-Manipulation. Brian Mayton, Louis LeGrand, Joshua R. Smith. Submitted to ICRA 2010.

  • A Spotlight on Security and Privacy Risks with Future Household Robots: Attacks and Lessons, Tamara Denning, Cynthia Matuszek, Karl Koscher, Joshua R. Smith, Tadayoshi Kohno. In the Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2009). A FAQ about this paper is available.

  • 3D laser scan classification using web data and domain adaptation, K. Lai and D. Fox, Proc. of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2009.

  • Electric Field Servoing for Robotic Manipulation, Ryan Wistort, Joshua R. Smith. Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008).
  • Random Kitchen Sinks: Replacing Optimization with Randomization in Learning, Ali Rahimi, Ben Recht, in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2008.
  • Uniform Approximation of Functions with Random Bases, Ali Rahimi, Ben Recht, in Allerton 2008.
  • Voronoi random fields: Extracting the topological structure of indoor environments via place labeling,. Friedman, D. Fox, and H. Pasula, Proc. of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2007.

  • Electric Field Imaging Pretouch for Robotic Graspers, Joshua R. Smith, Eric Garcia, Ryan Wistort, Ganesh Krishnamoorthy. IEEE/RSJ 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2007).
  • Random Features for Large-Scale Kernel Machines, Ali Rahimi, Ben Recht, in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2007, pp. 1177-1184.
  • Other Documents


  • Personal Robots: A Personal Computer Industry Perspective, Ali Rahimi, Joshua R. Smith, David I. Ferguson, and Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, our contribution to the NSF-funded CCC/CRA Roadmapping for Robotics study. Based on this submission, we were selected to participate in the Domestic and Professional Service Robotics workshop. The inputs from the four workshops were captured in the final report, From Internet to Robotics: A Roadmap for US Robotics.