Robotics and Embodied Intelligence
AI Faculty Research Area
The Robotics and Embodied Intelligence area studies how to create full-stack intelligence for autonomous robots by tightly integrating perception, learning, planning, and control with a robot's physical or virtual body and its environment. Research in this area focuses on enabling robots to reason and act across multiple spatial and temporal scales, from low-level whole-body control and navigation skills to abstract, long-horizon task planning under uncertainty and multi-robot cooperation. A central theme is understanding how to effectively combine techniques from machine learning, computer vision, automated planning, decision-theoretic reasoning, game theory, and control to produce robust, adaptive behavior in real-world settings. Rather than treating these components in isolation, embodied AI emphasizes end-to-end autonomy grounded in physical interaction, in which intelligence emerges from the continuous coupling among computation, embodiment, and the environment.
Faculty
Julie A. Adams
Professor | College of Engineering Dean's Professor
Additional Positions
CoRIS Associate Director for Research
Research Groups
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction
Alan Fern
Professor
Research Groups
Data Science and Engineering | Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Stefan Lee
Associate Professor | Brent and Elaine Leback Professor in Engineering
Research Groups
Data Science and Engineering | Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Fuxin Li
Professor
Research Groups
Data Science and Engineering | Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Sandhya Saisubramanian
Assistant Professor
Research Groups
Data Science and Engineering | Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Bill Smart
Professor
Additional Positions
CoRIS Associate Director for Academics
Research Groups
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Robotics
Kagan Tumer
Professor
Additional Positions
CoRIS Institute Director
Research Groups
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Robotics