GeoVerse Lab
← AI & Computing Sciences Division

Robotics & Embodied AI Center

Advances autonomous robotic systems and embodied AI with strong emphasis on exploration robotics for planetary, deep-sea, subsurface, and aerial geoscience missions - bridging perception, planning, and physical interaction through manipulation, SLAM navigation, vision-language-action models, and sim-to-real transfer.

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Research Fields 15
Robot Kinematics & Mechanism Design
πŸ”§ Robot Kinematics & Mechanism Design
Kinematics is the geometry of motion, the study of positions, velocities and accelerations…
Manipulation & Dexterous Robotic Skills
🦾 Manipulation & Dexterous Robotic Skills
Robotic manipulation is the use of robot arms, wrists and grippers to change the physical …
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)
πŸ—ΊοΈ Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the problem of building a map of an unknow…
Motion & Path Planning via Graph Search
🧭 Motion & Path Planning via Graph Search
Motion planning computes how a robot should move from a start configuration to a goal whil…
Legged Locomotion & Biomechanical Gait Analysis
🦿 Legged Locomotion & Biomechanical Gait Analysis
Legged locomotion research builds machines that move on legs and studies the biomechanics …
Underwater Robotics & Autonomous/Remotely Operated Vehicles
🌊 Underwater Robotics & Autonomous/Remotely Operated Vehicles
Underwater robotics builds vehicles that work beneath the surface, remotely operated vehic…
Planetary Rovers & Space Robotics
πŸ›°οΈ Planetary Rovers & Space Robotics
Planetary robotics builds machines that explore other worlds, rovers that drive across reg…
Swarm Robotics & Collective Behavior
🐝 Swarm Robotics & Collective Behavior
Swarm robotics coordinates large numbers of relatively simple robots through local rules o…
Sim-to-Real Transfer & Robustness Theory
πŸŒ‰ Sim-to-Real Transfer & Robustness Theory
Sim-to-real transfer trains robot policies in simulation, where experience is fast, safe a…
Embodied Cognition & Vision-Language-Action Grounding
πŸ‘οΈ Embodied Cognition & Vision-Language-Action Grounding
Embodied cognition is the thesis, given its classic statement by Maurice Merleau-Ponty in …
Human-Robot Interaction & Trust in Autonomous Systems
🀝 Human-Robot Interaction & Trust in Autonomous Systems
Human-robot interaction studies the exchange between people and machines that act with app…
Aerial Robotics & Rotorcraft Design for Drone Geological Mapping
🚁 Aerial Robotics & Rotorcraft Design for Drone Geological Mapping
Aerial robotics develops unmanned aircraft that sense, navigate and perform tasks aloft, a…
Teleoperation & Remote Manipulation
πŸ•ΉοΈ Teleoperation & Remote Manipulation
Teleoperation places a human operator's judgment at one end of a communication link and a …
Soft Robotics & Compliant Mechanism Mechanics
πŸ™ Soft Robotics & Compliant Mechanism Mechanics
Soft robotics builds robots from compliant materials, elastomers, fabrics, and flexible co…
Behavior-Based Robotics & Reactive Architectures
🐒 Behavior-Based Robotics & Reactive Architectures
Behavior-based robotics organises a robot's mind as a collection of small, independent beh…