Research Area: Robotics

Robotics

The goal of robotics research is to create more complex tools that can mimic the actions and intelligence of humans and animals. As robots become more sophisticated, their design, operation, and applications become more complex. Research in robotics at Princeton spans a wide variety of research areas including perception, control, learning, and planning. Applications span manipulation, locomotion, drones, autonomous vehicles, construction, architecture, and soft robots.

Associated Faculty

Jia Deng

Associate Professor

Machine Learning, Vision & Graphics, Robotics

Elad Hazan

Professor, Director of Graduate Studies-Admissions

Machine Learning, Robotics

Felix Heide

Assistant Professor

Vision & Graphics, Robotics

Radhika Nagpal

Norman R. Augustine ’57 *59 Professor in Engineering

Robotics

Szymon Rusinkiewicz

David M. Siegel ’83 Professor of Computer Science

Vision & Graphics, Robotics

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