Russell Toris
Papers
10
Total Citations
335
H-Index
9
About
Russell Toris is a leading researcher in cloud robotics and human-robot interaction, best known for founding the Robot Web Tools project—an open-source framework that has become the de facto standard for connecting robots to the web. His seminal 2015 paper on this topic (85 citations) introduced rosbridge, enabling seamless, real-time messaging between heterogeneous robot systems and remote interfaces, fundamentally advancing interoperability in cloud robotics. Toris also pioneered the use of crowdsourcing for human-robot interaction studies with his Robot Management System (52 and 42 citations), which allows researchers to conduct large-scale, remote user experiments—a methodology now widely adopted. His work on secure remote connections to ROS-enabled robots (31 citations) addressed critical cybersecurity challenges in cloud robotics, while his comparative study of robot learning from demonstration algorithms (36 citations) provided key insights into usability for non-expert users. Toris’s contributions have shaped how robots communicate, learn, and interact with humans across distributed networks, earning him recognition as a pivotal figure in making robotics accessible and scalable through web technologies.
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Top Papers
- 1Robot Web Tools: Efficient messaging for cloud robotics85 citations · 2015
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- 4Robot Web Tools [ROS Topics]39 citations · 2012
- 5A Practical Comparison of Three Robot Learning from Demonstration Algorithm36 citations · 2012
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- 7A practical comparison of three robot learning from demonstration algorithms18 citations · 2012
- 8Temporal persistence modeling for object search15 citations · 2017
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- 10Adaptive Autonomous Grasp Selection via Pairwise Ranking4 citations · 2018