Robotics
Robotics is an interdisciplinary and evolving field focused on developing intelligent machines that interact with the physical world. Robotics research at CSL emphasizes computational methods for planning, perception, and learning, novel sensing devices and methods, mechanical device design and development, integration between software and hardware, and deploying and evaluating these methods in real-world settings. Our mission is to achieve excellence in robotics research by integrating diverse aspects of engineering and computing into robotics applications with significant socioeconomic impact, such as autonomous vehicles, industrial robots, medical robots, and agricultural robots.
Research
Robotics researchers at CSL apply their expertise to enable breakthroughs in a wide range of topics including:
- Robot learning
- Motion planning
- Computer vision and 3D perception
- Mechatronics
- Verification
- Human-robot interaction
- Agricultural and off-road robots
- Legged robots and humanoids
- Soft robots
See the Robotics Group website for more.
Group Contact
Rhonda Henderson
355 CSL
rhender@illinois.edu
(217) 300-8511
Mandy Foster Swartzendruber
153 CSL
mandyf@illinois.edu
(217) 265-4062