Hello! My name is Mark Zolotas and I’m a Research Scientist in Robotics at Toyota Research Institute (TRI).

My research interests span the domains of machine learning, robot control, and extended reality. If you are curious about these topics and how I study their overlap in the field of human-robot collaboration, then you can find out more on this website.

Highlights

• June 2024 — Joined TRI as a Research Scientist on the Human-Robot Interaction team!
• March 2024 — Our paper on “Imposing Motion Variability for Ergonomic Human-Robot Collaboration” was accepted for publication in the IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors
• Nov 2023 — Demonstrated our augmented reality task guidance system at MIT as part of the DARPA Perceptually-enabled Task Guidance (PTG) program
• Aug 2023 — Presented a poster and participated in a panel session at the NSF Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier Principal Investigators’ Meeting
• May 2023 — The team I advise was selected for participation in the 2024 Marine Energy Collegiate Competition (MECC) and was awarded a $20K prize
• May 2023 — Our paper on “Mobile MoCap: Retroreflector Localization On-The-Go” was accepted at the International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)