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Gyuree Kang

I’m a robotics researcher focused on making AI-powered robotic systems work reliably in the real world. I recently earned my Ph.D. from KAIST, where I conducted research in the Unmanned System Research Group under the supervision of Prof. David Hyunchul Shim.

My research focuses on leveraging vision-language models (VLMs) for open-ended, high-level task execution. I have experience building robust autonomous systems across diverse platforms—including mobile robots, manipulators, humanoids, and drone-tethered systems—and validating them through real-world deployments and robotics competitions.

Contact: fingb20(at)gmail(dot)com

Projects

Project 1 GIF

Neuro-Symbolic Agentic Planning and Open-Vocabulary Failure Recovery for Long-Horizon Robot Tasks

Gyuree Kang, David Hyunchul Shim

Project 1 GIF

Low-Latency Telepresence via Gaussian Splatting With Safety-Aware Control for Mobile Manipulators

Gyuree Kang, Yeonchan Kim, Juhyeong Roh, David Hyunchul Shim

[IEEE Acess]

Press Coverage: [Tech Daily]

Project 1 GIF

DeLTa: Demonstration and Language-Guided Novel Transparent Object Manipulation

Gyuree Kang*, Taeyeop Lee*, Bowen Wen, Youngho Kim, Seunghyeok Back, In So Kweon, David Hyunchul Shim, Kuk-Jin Yoon

[Arxiv] [Project Page]

Project 1 GIF

Multi-Robot Indoor Reconnaissance and Decontamination System

Press Coverage: [The Korea Defense Daily]

Project 1 GIF

Any6D: Model-free 6D Pose Estimation of Novel Objects

Taeyeop Lee, Bowen Wen, Minjun Kang, Gyuree Kang, In So Kweon, Kuk-Jin Yoon

[CVPR 2025] [Project Page]

Project 2 GIF

A Humanoid Pilot Based on Knowledge from Natural Language Processing - IEEE RAM Best Paper

Gyuree Kang*, Sungjae Min*, Hyungjoo Kim*, David Hyunchul Shim

[IEEE RAM] [Video]

Hyungjoo Kim, Sungjae Min, Gyuree Kang, David Hyunchul Shim

[IROS 2024]

Press Coverage: [Reuters], [The Sun]

Project 3 GIF

SPIBOT: A Drone-Tethered Mobile Gripper for Robust Aerial Object Retrieval in Dynamic Environments

Gyuree Kang, Ozan Güneş, Seungwook Lee, Maulana Bisyir Azhari, David Hyunchul Shim

[ICRA 2025] [KAIST Breakthroughs 2025] [Video]

Seungwook Lee, Maulana Bisyir Azhari, Gyuree Kang, Ozan Günes, Donghun Han, David Hyunchul Shim

[Arxiv]

Selected as KAIST Breakthroughs 2025

Project 3 GIF

Development of an indoor delivery mobile robot for a multi-floor environment

Taejin Kim, Gyuree Kang, Daegyu Lee, David Hyunchul Shim

[IEEE ACCESS] [Video]

Project 3 GIF

A versatile door opening system with mobile manipulator through adaptive position-force control and reinforcement learning

Gyuree Kang, Hyunki Seong, Daegyu Lee, David Hyunchul Shim

[Elsevier RAS]

Project 3 GIF

Assistive Delivery Robot Application for Real-World Postal Services

Daegyu Lee, Gyuree Kang, Boseong Kim, David Hyunchul Shim

[IEEE ACCESS] [Video]

Project 3 GIF

Design, Field Evaluation, and Traffic Analysis of a Competitive Autonomous Driving Model in a Congested Environment

Daegyu Lee, Hyunki Seong, Gyuree Kang, Seungil Han, David Hyunchul Shim, Yoonjin Yoon

[IEEE T-ITS] [Video1] [Video2]

Education

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Unmanned Systems Research Group (USRG)
Thesis: “Neuro-Symbolic Agentic Planning and Open-Vocabulary Failure Recovery for Long-Horizon Robot Tasks”
Sep. 2022 – Aug. 2026
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
M.S. in Robotics (Electrical Engineering)
Unmanned Systems Research Group (USRG)
Thesis: “Development of Autonomous Mobile Manipulator system for Indoor Driving and Door Opening”
Sep. 2020 – Aug. 2022
Sungkyunkwan University
Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering
Mar. 2016 – Aug. 2020

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