Pursuing the fundamental understanding of how legged systems accomplish rapid movements, robust balancing, and quick response to the disturbance
Designing robotic systems to safely and effectively operate and assist humans in everyday tasks
Creating robotic systems that can reduce human labor by learning, reasoning, and autonomously executing tasks like human
Improving robot control and learning of physical interaction and manipulation of physical objects to perform useful tasks in unstructured environments
Developing hardware and software enabling robotic systems to perceive and comprehend situations by observing, touching, and listening to the environment
Developing algorithms for the generation of dynamic movements for autonomous mobile robots and robotic manipulators
Creating novel robotic platforms to enable the study of new paradigms in robotic performance and interaction with objects, people and the environment
Developing theoretical and experimental techniques that enable the design, fabrication, and control to realize soft robotic systems with unique capabilities
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