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I am thrilled to share that two co-authored papers have been accepted for presentation at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
Niklas Funk
Mar 2, 2026 0 min read
I recently defended my PhD thesis. A big thank you to everyone who supported me throughout this journey.
Niklas Funk
Dec 15, 2025 0 min read
It was my honour to deliver an invited talk at the CVPR2025 Workshop on Event-based Vision in Nashville about Event-based Optical Tactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation!
Niklas Funk
Jun 12, 2025 0 min read
Our work on summarizing the robot air hockey challenge was accepted to Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 2024!
Niklas Funk
Dec 16, 2024 0 min read
Our paper - ActionFlow: Efficient, Accurate, and Fast Policies with Spatially Symmetric Flow Matching - wins the best paper award in the RSS 2024 workshop on Priors4Robots!
Niklas Funk
Jul 20, 2024 0 min read
Our journal article Evetac: An Event-based Optical Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation has been accepted for publication at the IEEE Transactions on Robotics!
Niklas Funk
Jun 12, 2024 0 min read
Our work on Placing by Touching was accepted at IROS 2023, and nominated as finalist for the Best Paper Award on Mobile Manipulation!
Niklas Funk
Oct 1, 2023 0 min read
We are very happy to receive the best paper award for our work on SE(3)-DiffusionFields at the workshop on Geometric Representations - The Role of Screw Theory, Lie Algebra and Geometric Algebra at ICRA 2023.
Niklas Funk
Jun 2, 2023 0 min read
Paper Pixelwise Contact Area and Normal Force Estimation for the GelSight Mini Visuotactile Sensor accepted at the ICRA 2023 workshop on Embracing Contacts.
Niklas Funk
May 23, 2023 0 min read
Paper on Grasp and Motion Generation using Diffusion Models accepted at ICRA 2023
Niklas Funk
Apr 1, 2023 0 min read