Ben Davis
I'm a fourth year Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley with Hannah Stuart. My research interests involve robot
design for manipulation, with a focus on building and learning with hardware that's mechanically robust and adaptable for real-world use. I'm supported by the
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
I did my undergrad at The University of Texas at Austin, where I worked on soft wearable sensing with Nanshu Lu
and haptic motor learning with Ann Majewicz Fey.
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Characterizing the Resilience and Sensitivity of Polyurethane Vision-Based Tactile Sensors
Spotlight — Award Candidate
Benjamin Davis, Hannah S. Stuart
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Proactive Grasp Assistance in a Robotic Hand Exoskeleton Improves Performance and Preference in Challenging Tasks
Benjamin Davis, Emily Huynh, Hannah S. Stuart
IEEE ICRA 2026
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Agency-Preserving Robotic Assistance for Grasp Slip Recovery in Body-Powered Prostheses
Benjamin Davis, Michael Abbott, Hannah S. Stuart
Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2025)
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