Miles S. Priebe

Hello, my name is Miles Priebe, I graduated December 2023 with a M.S. of Science in Robotics from the Minnesota Research Institute mentored by Assistant Professor Karthik Desingh as a graduate research assistant in the Robotics: Perception, and Manipulation Lab.

I graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Computer Science. During my B.S., I gained internship experience working as a project engineering intern for Open Systems International (OSI) and undergraduate research experience working as an assistant in the UMN Wearable Technology Lab . I had large contributions to the Grand Challenges Research Project: Smart Hugs, and various Computer Mediated Compression projects. During my M.S. I have had internship experience as a robotics software engineer intern at The Toro Company and as a student associate researcher position on the visuotactile perception team at Honda Research Institute . I am currently working as R&D Software Engineer at Merlin Labs in Boston, MA.

I am passionate about enhancing robot interaction through learning-based frameworks. I have worked on multiple projects focused around replicating humans’ sense of touch in robots by using tactile perception for robust perception and manipulation. My capstone project, “Applications of the Soft Bubble Grippers: Visuotactile Sensing for Visuomotor Policy Learning”, is the replication and extension of the Soft Bubble Gripper developed by Punyo at Toyota Research Institute .