Zackory Erickson

Zackory Erickson's research broadly explores healthcare robotics, with an emphasis on empowering older adults and people with disabilities to live more independently and maintain a higher quality of life.

His work lies at the intersection of physically assistive robotics, learning, physics simulation, haptic perception, and human-robot interaction.

He is especially interested in physical human-robot interaction and focuses on developing methods that enable robotic caregivers to intelligently interact with and assist people. Much of his work explores how robots can leverage physics-based simulation, perception, and learning to more efficiently and safely assist people with physical impairments to perform activities of daily living. He also develops new sensors and techniques for robots to better track and interact with the human body. Erickson takes a human-centric perspective towards many of these goals and is inspired by robots learning and exhibiting common sense around people.