Posts | Niklas Funk https://niklasfunk.com/post/ Posts Wowchemy (https://wowchemy.com)en-usMon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://niklasfunk.com/media/icon_hu52812a4a0011b18275ab7623cc3ad93f_4329_512x512_fill_lanczos_center_3.png Posts https://niklasfunk.com/post/ 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). https://niklasfunk.com/post/9-icra-papers/ Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://niklasfunk.com/post/9-icra-papers/ I recently defended my PhD thesis. A big thank you to everyone who supported me throughout this journey. https://niklasfunk.com/post/8-phd-defense/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://niklasfunk.com/post/8-phd-defense/ 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! https://niklasfunk.com/post/7-cvpr-talk/ Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://niklasfunk.com/post/7-cvpr-talk/ Our work on summarizing the robot air hockey challenge was accepted to Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 2024! https://niklasfunk.com/post/6-neurips-paper/ Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://niklasfunk.com/post/6-neurips-paper/ 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! https://niklasfunk.com/post/5-workshop-best-paper-award/ Sat, 20 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://niklasfunk.com/post/5-workshop-best-paper-award/ Our journal article Evetac: An Event-based Optical Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation has been accepted for publication at the IEEE Transactions on Robotics! https://niklasfunk.com/post/4-tro-accepted/ Wed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://niklasfunk.com/post/4-tro-accepted/ Our work on Placing by Touching was accepted at IROS 2023, and nominated as finalist for the Best Paper Award on Mobile Manipulation! https://niklasfunk.com/post/3-iros-and-award/ Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://niklasfunk.com/post/3-iros-and-award/ 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. https://niklasfunk.com/post/2-icra-award-23/ Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://niklasfunk.com/post/2-icra-award-23/ Paper Pixelwise Contact Area and Normal Force Estimation for the GelSight Mini Visuotactile Sensor accepted at the ICRA 2023 workshop on Embracing Contacts. https://niklasfunk.com/post/1-icra-23/ Tue, 23 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://niklasfunk.com/post/1-icra-23/ Paper on Grasp and Motion Generation using Diffusion Models accepted at ICRA 2023 https://niklasfunk.com/post/0-icra-23/ Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://niklasfunk.com/post/0-icra-23/ Launched new website! https://niklasfunk.com/post/new-website/ Sat, 10 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://niklasfunk.com/post/new-website/