Dong Ho Kang

Robotics PhD Student at the University of Texas at Austin

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dongho@utexas.edu

My name is Dong Ho Kang (DK), and I am a PhD student investiages design optimization of humanoid robots at Human Centered Robotics Lab in the University of Texas at Austin. I focus on bridging the gap between skill-level manipulation and robot hardware by integrating robot morphology, mechanism, and control as a single, coupled design problem.

news

Feb 12, 2026 Our paper Soft Vortex Gripper for Dexterous Manipulation using Hand-Like Robots has been accepted to the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)!
Nov 11, 2024 Our paper RPC: A Modular Framework for Robot Planning, Control, and Deployment has been accepted to the 2025 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)!

latest posts

Oct 14, 2024 [CAN 05] - PCAN Device Driver Installation on Linux
Apr 12, 2024 Resources for Learning Robotics
Dec 05, 2023 [CAN 04] - Gripper Motor Control with CAN Bus

selected publications

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    PLATO Hand: Shaping Contact Behavior with Fingernails for Precise Manipulation
    Dong Ho Kang, Aaron Kim, Mingyo Seo, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.05156, 2026
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