Yejin Kim김예진Roboticist, researcher and artist

About

Yejin Kim is a roboticist, researcher and artist, currently at Ai2 in Seattle. Her research scales simulation, benchmarks and data for manipulation, mobile manipulation and dexterity. For over a decade she has built robots that work outside the lab, from warehouse picking to delivery robots and home cobots.

Her installations with robots have been shown at ZER01NE, Art Center Nabi, MMCA, CVPR and ICRA. She holds degrees from Johns Hopkins and Cornell.

Yejin Kim

Robots and hardware

Mobile manipulator opening a door
Mobile manipulator opening a doorHarmonic mobile manipulation, Ai2, 2024
Self-driving delivery robot
Self-driving delivery robotLG Electronics, 2019–21
Box-picking robot arm
Box-picking robot armCMES, 2018
Mobile Taurus
Mobile TaurusSRI International, 2016–18
Fingertip force sensor for hand rehabilitation
Fingertip force sensor for hand rehabilitationBLAM Lab, Johns Hopkins, 2014–16
Child-in-car motion sensor, featured on TV news
Child-in-car motion sensor, featured on TV newsSenior design, Johns Hopkins, 2013