CHOICE Robotics Lab
Located in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Minnesota Twin Cities, CHOICE Lab (Cleverly Helping rObots In Challenging Environments) focuses on robotic manipulation and grasping in complex scenarios. Led by Prof. Choi.
Notable achievements
Grasping methods for challenging perception scenarios (ICRA 2022, 2021)
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
A hierarchical approach to imitation learning for manipulation tasks requiring time varying forces
Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
Lightweight visual SLAM and traversability mapping for space robotics: Real-time operation in challenging environments
César Debeunne, Alex Torres, Damien Vivet
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
FloAff-Kitchen: Bridging Navigation and Manipulation via Canonical and Progressive Floor Affordance Learning
Ping Zhong, Manling Teng, Tao Wu +3 more
2026
VIA: Visual Interface Agent for Robot Control
Hengyuan Hu, Priya Sundaresan, Jensen Gao +1 more
2026
What Are We Actually Benchmarking in Robot Manipulation?
Tianchong Jiang, Xiangshan Tan, Samuel Wheeler +3 more
2026
DLO-Lab: Benchmarking Deformable Linear Object Manipulations with Differentiable Physics
Junyi Cao, Yian Wang, Ziyan Xiong +3 more
2026