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Humanoids
- Mobile Manipulation
- Whole-body Manipulation
Dynamic Robotic Embodiment & Autonomous Manipulation Lab.
We study dynamic robot systems and autonomous manipulation — from robot arms to wheeled mobile manipulators and humanoids.
About
Introduction
DREAM Lab. studies dynamic robot systems and autonomous manipulation. Centered on tasks performed with robot arms, we build mobile manipulation systems that combine arms with a variety of mobile platforms, such as wheeled robots and humanoids.
Beyond conventional manipulation of static objects, we use these platforms to handle dynamic situations — wiping a table, assembling deformable parts, and more — through reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and related methods.
To support this research, we also work on efficient data collection and optimal general-purpose hardware.
KeywordsRobots, Artificial Intelligence, Physical AI, Embodied AI, Digital Twin, Manipulation, Autonomous System, Mobile Manipulator, AI Robots
Research
Research Domains
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Manipulation
- Cooperative Manipulation
- Motion Planning and Control
- Imitation Learning
- Reinforcement Learning
- Physical AI
News
Latest News
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Paper
We published the project page for HITMEN, our hybrid interface for humanoid teleoperation — an HMD for the head, chest-mounted VR controllers for the torso, shoulder-mounted leader arms for the arms, and VR together with wrist cameras for the fingers. It anticipates the next second of hand-tracking reliability from recent motion and shifts finger control toward the wrist cameras when tracking degrades. All six of our graduate students are authors. Project page
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Paper
We published the project page for PATACON, our work on constrained motion planning. It picks expansion directions inside local tangent spaces and projects and validates several candidate edges in parallel on the GPU, reaching up to 11.25x lower planning latency than a GPU baseline from 7-DoF manipulators to 35-DoF whole-body humanoids, with real-robot replanning against a moving obstacle. arXiv:2610.13195 Project page
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Event
Invited talk for our internship program: “Reproducible ROS 2 Systems — From Trial and Error to Research” (Sanghoon Lee, Ph.D., DGIST). Event page
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Award
DREAM Lab. won 1st place at the KIRIA Humanoid Real-World Challenge for automating garment packing with the humanoid IGRIS at a Lotte Global Logistics site. 🏆 The Robot Times
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Event
ROSCon Korea 2026, Korea’s first official ROS developer conference, chaired by Prof. Suhan Park, was held at Kwangwoon University’s Pangyo Campus. The Korea Times
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Grant
DREAM Lab. won a government grant from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources (MOTIR) — Development of a humanoid robot specialized for distribution processes based on AI foundation models (joint research). Press
Publications
Selected Publications
Media
In Action
DREAM Lab.
Humanoid Robot for Parcel Packaging — Physical AI
A humanoid robot performing a parcel-packaging process — Physical AI research at DREAM Lab.
“Packing in a snap”: the logistics center's sleepless robot intern
KBS News 9 · 2026.04.10
Robots in training before deployment, starting with night shifts
TV Chosun News 7
User Interview EP.1 | Kwangwoon University
ROBROS
“Packing in a snap”: the logistics center's sleepless robot intern
KBS · 2026.04.10
“Packing in a snap”: the logistics center's sleepless robot intern
KBS · 2026.04.11
Robots for parcel packing and sorting — logistics industry adopts AI robots
KNN News
What happens when fromis_9's Chaeyoung visits an engineering lab [EP.20]
MUSINSA TV