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

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

Dec 01, 2025 [로봇 하드웨어 01] - 로봇 하드웨어란?
Dec 01, 2025 Hardware 01
Nov 30, 2025 Hardware Table Kr

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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