Research

For a full list of papers, see Professor Bucher's Google Scholar. Our active research directions are:

Generative AI for Robotic Inference

Current interests: 3D prediction, efficient training and inference

Collaborators: Jun Gao (NVIDIA / incoming University of Michigan ECE)

Force-Aware Language Grounding

Current interests: grounding actions, adjectives and adverbs

Collaborators: Nima Fazeli (University of Michigan Robotics)

Large Scale Scene Understanding and Long Horizon Planning

Current interests: object search, natural language instruction following

Collaborators: Tucker Hermans (University of Utah Computer Science), Angel Xuang Chang (SFU Computer Science)

Funding: Samsung LEAP-U

Field Robotics and Robust Perception

Current interests: space, traversability

Collaborators: Erica Tevere (NASA JPL), Georgios Georgakis (NASA JPL), Michael Chuah (A*STAR)

Funding: NASA ROSES