Rebecca P. Khurshid
University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University
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Total Citations
114
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About
Rebecca P. Khurshid is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of teleoperation, haptic feedback, and human-robot teaming. Her research addresses one of the most persistent challenges in remote manipulation: enabling human operators to interact with distant environments with the same intuition and dexterity they would exercise in person. Her most cited work, "Effects of Grip-Force, Contact, and Acceleration Feedback on a Teleoperated Pick-and-Place Task" (2016, 77 citations), demonstrated that ungrounded haptic feedback modalities — including grip-force and fingertip contact — can meaningfully enhance teleoperation performance, advancing understanding of how touch can be translated across robotic systems. Her 2015 study on data-driven motion mappings further showed that intelligently adapting human-to-robot movement translation improves system transparency, reducing the cognitive burden on operators. More recently, her 2023 investigation into human-robot teaming with expert operators extended this work into complex, multi-step manipulation scenarios relevant to surgery, space robotics, and disaster response. Across her career, Khurshid has consistently pushed toward teleoperation systems that feel natural and reliable, contributing foundational insights into how haptic sensing can help robots — and the humans guiding them — better understand task success.
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- 2Data-Driven Motion Mappings Improve Transparency in Teleoperation18 citations · 2015
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