Undergrad attends first IROS, gets hands-on with new humanoid robots
heatherknight · x · 2026-10-08
An undergraduate shares their rewarding first experience at IROS: meeting people from academia and industry, seeing the latest robotics research, and getting hands-on with new robots. They thank mentors Irvin and Dr. Jong-Hoon Kim, and preview upcoming work on humanoid robots. Robotics researcher Heather Knight reshared the thread.
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