Dong Ho Kang
Robotics PhD Student at the University of Texas at Austin
dongho@utexas.edu
I am a Ph.D. student at UT Austin, advised by Dr. Luis Sentis in Human Centered Robotics Lab. My research studies how robot morphology, mechanism design, and control interact in manipulation, especially in contact-rich settings. I am particularly interested in fingertip mechanics, robot hands, and whole-body manipulation systems, with the goal of designing hardware that improves interaction through physically meaningful behavior.
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)! |
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| 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 |
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| 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 ManipulationarXiv preprint arXiv:2602.05156, 2026
