Responsibilities include:

• Implemented state-of-the-art robotics algorithms to realize new product features, ranging from planning, control and robot learning for both navigation and manipulation.
• Implemented software bridge with popular robotics simulators to facilitate research and system integration test.
• Developed benchmark tools for easy and thorough evaluation of robot systems.

Responsibilities include:

• Assisted research in the area of smart household robot applications under supervision of Prof David Hsu.
• Integrated research projects with state-of-the-art computer vision, speech recognition, planning, manipulation and indoor navigation to build a robot butler that communicates with and serves people.
• Delivered milestone demonstrations to external visitors.
• Developed and maintained robot software system architecture to enforce software consistency and cleanness. Unified all pre-existing codes into a consistent framework.