About Us

The main theme of research in the Bot Intelligence Group (BIG) is to develop robotic intelligence ranging from the low-level autonomy to the high-level cognitive abilities. We aim to develop robots that can cooperate or collaborate with humans in shared environments, learning to improve themselves over time through continual on- and off-line training, exploration, and interactions with humans and/or environments. Towards this general goal, we strive to answer research questions on how to make robots to understand various semantic contexts of physical and/or social environments, act in both task-effective and socially-compliant manners, and communicate their internal states with other agents in intuitive ways.

We are proud to be part of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

Research areas

Semantic robot navigation, social robot navigation, human-robot interaction/collaboration, vision language planning, creative AI, arts and robotics, simulation-to-real adaptation, robotic intelligence, cognitive robotics.