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  • RoboCup
    The UT Austin Villa robot soccer team participating in an international RoboCup Competition.
  • ReNeu Harmony upper body exoskelton
    ReNue Lab's HARMONY is an upper body exoskeleton designed for rehabilitation
  • RoboCup
    The UT Austin Villa robot soccer team participating in an international RoboCup Competition.
  • Building-Wide Intelligence Robots in LARG Lab
    These robots are being designed and programmed to navigate autonomously through the building and interact with people.
  • Hume in the Human Centered Robotics Lab
    Hume remains balanced while walking by observing the center of mass position error relative to a reference path and re-planning at every step a new trajectory.
  • NRG's Robotic Arms
    Industrial Reconfigurable Anthropomorphic Dual-arm (IRAD) System for use in gloveboxes and other hazardous environments. It replaces or augments operators performing radiochemistry or manufacturing tasks
  • Dreamer in the Human Centered Robotics Lab
    Dreamer showing off its beautiful facial expressions, and articulated arms and torso. Researchers are developing novel controllers for Dreamer to achieve collaborative tasks with human users.
  • ReNue's ACT Hand
    Anatomically Correct Test-bed (ACT) Hand with human-like bones, joints, tendons and muscles

Robotics Research

Researchers in multiple departments work to advance the capability of robotics numerous application spaces including social, surgical, rehabilitation, vehicles, drilling, manufacturing, space, nuclear, and defense.

Robotics Education

UT has world-class opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate education and offer a Graduate Portfolio Program in Robotics. 

 

Robotics Outreach

UT researchers regularly host robotics activities to engage the community at-large. These include lab tours, workshops and also on-site demonstrations.

News & Events

Welcome to New Faculty
Wed, 12/11/2019

We would like to welcome Farshid Alambeigi, Joydeep Biswas, Jose del R. MIllan, and Yuke Zhu.

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Dr. Scott Niekum Receives Young Investigator Award
Wed, 12/11/2019

Dr. Niekum has been awarded the Young Investigator Award. This award is granted to select scientists and engineers at United States research institutions who received their PhDs or equivalent in the last seven years and show exceptional ability and promise for conducting creative research. 

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Topcu to Work with Consortium Selected to Pioneer New Autonomy Capabilities
Wed, 05/22/2019

Oden Institute Professor Ufuk Topcu will participate in the new U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research Center of Excellence for Assured Autonomy in Contested Environments.

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