Cristian C. Beltran-Hernandez

I am a Senior Researcher at OMRON SINIC X Corporation working on robot learning projects. I received the B.Sc. Degree in information engineering from the University of La Sabana, Colombia, in 2013, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in engineering science from Osaka University, in 2019 and 2022, respectively.

I worked on joint research projects with Fujifilm from 2018 to 2022 on topics related to robotic assembly automation with compliance control. I also researched about robot manipulation as an intern at OMRON SINIC X Corporation from 2021 to 2023.

I participated as contributor in the 2022 Google Summer of Code program with the open source organization MoveIt.

news

Jan 29, 2025	We have two papers accepted to IEEE conferences: SCU-Hand: Soft Conical Universal Robotic Hand for Scooping Granular Media from Containers of Various Sizes to ICRA 2025! PLEXUS Hand: Lightweight Four-Motor Prosthetic Hand Enabling Precision-Lateral Dexterous Manipulation to ICORR 2025!

selected publications

ICORR2025

PLEXUS Hand: Lightweight Four-Motor Prosthetic Hand Enabling Precision-Lateral Dexterous Manipulation

Yuki Kuroda, Tomoya Takahashi, Cristian C. Beltran-Hernandez, Masashi Hamaya, and Kazutoshi Tanaka

In IEEE-RAS-EMBS International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), 2025

Bib

@inproceedings{kuroda2025plexushand,
  author = {Kuroda, Yuki and Takahashi, Tomoya and Beltran-Hernandez, Cristian C. and Hamaya, Masashi and Tanaka, Kazutoshi},
  title = {PLEXUS Hand: Lightweight Four-Motor Prosthetic Hand Enabling Precision-Lateral Dexterous Manipulation},
  booktitle = {IEEE-RAS-EMBS International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR)},
  year = {2025},
}

ICRA2025

SCU-Hand: Soft Conical Universal Robotic Hand for Scooping Granular Media from Containers of Various Sizes

Tomoya Takahashi, Cristian C. Beltran-Hernandez, Yuki Kuroda, Kazutoshi Tanaka, Masashi Hamaya, and 1 more author

In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025

Bib

@inproceedings{takahashi2025scuhand,
  author = {Takahashi, Tomoya and Beltran-Hernandez, Cristian C. and Kuroda, Yuki and Tanaka, Kazutoshi and Hamaya, Masashi and Ushiku, Yoshitaka},
  title = {SCU-Hand: Soft Conical Universal Robotic Hand for Scooping Granular Media from Containers of Various Sizes},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2025},
}

IROS
Learning Variable Compliance Control From a Few Demonstrations for Bimanual Robot with Haptic Feedback Teleoperation System

Tatsuya Kamijo, Cristian C. Beltran-Hernandez, and Masashi Hamaya

In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024

Awarded arXiv Bib Video Blog Code

2nd Best Poster - Collecting, Managing, and Utilizing Data through embodied Robots workshop - IROS2024
@inproceedings{kamijo2024learning, author = {Kamijo, Tatsuya and Beltran-Hernandez, Cristian C. and Hamaya, Masashi}, title = {Learning Variable Compliance Control From a Few Demonstrations for Bimanual Robot with Haptic Feedback Teleoperation System}, booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)}, year = {2024}, }