Texas Robotics unites robotics efforts at The University of Texas at Austin to enable deeper collaborations, accelerate and grow research programs, and provide comprehensive educational offerings.
Research
Produce innovative and groundbreaking research that solves pressing societal challenges in numerous application spaces, including social, surgical, rehabilitation, vehicles, drilling, manufacturing, space, nuclear, and defense.
Education
Develop tomorrow’s robotics leaders through a holistic graduate and undergraduate program, including offering a Graduate Portfolio Program in Robotics and an Undergraduate Minor in Robotics.
Community
Increase access and exposure to robotics through regularly hosting lab tours, camps, workshops, talks, and robot demonstrations, especially for K12 students and underserved populations.
Industry
Collaborate with industry partners to expand our impact on society, connect students to potential careers, develop innovative research, and bridge the gap between education and industry.
Texas Robotics includes 16 core faculty members, 40 affiliated faculty members, and 200 students, postdocs, visiting scholars, and research engineers from four top-ranked departments at The University of Texas at Austin, including the Department of Aerospace Engineering, the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
News & Events
The University of Texas at Austin has introduced what is believed to be the first undergraduate robotics program in the country that allows high school students to apply directly as part of their freshman admissions application. The honors program will integrate students as soon as they arrive on campus into the immersive and interdisciplinary curriculum, which includes hands-on research, engineering and computer science coursework, and participation in UT’s top-ranked Texas Robotics’ events and programs.
Wood squeaks and cracks with each step on the hardwood floors of the Anna Hiss Gym. What once served as the dance studio in the University of Texas’ women’s gym, now is filled with more than a dozen small cameras.
People walk through the space, the cameras capturing their movement, and then as if through magic, a computer displays an overlay of their bones on a flat monitor along the east wall.
The advanced motion tracking tech is used by the staff of the Systems for Augmenting Human Mechanics Lab to discover how people walk. With that information, they could potentially revolutionize the prosthetics industry.
Texas Robotics students participated in the RoboCup Standard Platform League competition last week in the Netherlands. We participated in two competitions: RoboCup@Home and the Soccer Standard Platform Leagues "Challenge Shield" lower division competition.
Thank you to our Industry Affiliate Program Partners!
Texas Robotics partners with technology leaders who bring years of valuable experience to the table alongside growing businesses who bring exciting fresh perspectives.
Texas Robotics is engaged with Army Futures Command to develop leading-edge robotics solutions.