Research Groups Site Menu Menu Icon of three lines stacked on top of eachother Sidebar Menu Chev Down Icon of hollow arrow pointing down Arrow Left Icon of arrow pointing left Research Chev Up Icon of hollow arrow pointing up Research Groups CONTACT Location: Unity Hall Phone: 508-831-6665 rbe@wpi.edu Twitter Icon of Twitter Logo Instagram Icon of Instagram symbol Adaptive and Intelligent Robotics (AIR) Lab Prof. Jing Xiao UH 200E Real-time perception-based robotic assembly; Manipulation; Navigation in uncertain or unknown environments Aerial-robot Control and Perception (ACP) Lab Prof. Guanrui Li UH 100A Aerial Robots; Multi-Robots System; Aerial Manipulation; Optimal Control Automata Lab Prof. Kevin Leahy UH 100C Formal methods; Artificial Intelligence; Autonomous Systems; Planning and Control Automation and Interventional Medicine (AIM) Lab Prof. Gregory Fischer 50P 4th Floor Medical robotics; Image-guided surgery; MRI-compatible mechatronics; Intelligent robotic surgery; Assistive technology Cognitive Medical Technology and Robotics (COMET) Lab Prof. Loris Fichera 50P 4th Floor Surgical robotics; Continuum surgical robots; Energy-based surgical instruments; Lifesaving technologies Efficient Learning and Planning for Intelligent Systems (ELPIS) Lab Prof. Constantinos Chamzas UH 200B Learning for Efficient Planning; Planning under Uncertainty; Visual-Based Planning; Learning Abstractions for Planning The Future Therapeutic Unlimited Robotics Engineering (FuTURE) Lab Prof. Giovanni Pittiglio 50P 4th Floor Medical Robots; Medical Devices; Minimally Invasive Medicine Human-inspired Robotics (HiRO) Lab Prof. Jane Li UH 200A Multimodal multilateral human-robot interaction and interfaces; Shared autonomous nursing robots; Workload-adaptive human-robot collaboration Manipulation and Environmental Robotics Laboratory (MER Lab) Prof. Berk Calli UH 200D Robotics Manipulation; Environmental Robotics; Vision-based Control; Robot Dexterity Medical Frontier Ultrasound Imaging and Robotic Instrumentation (FUSION) Lab Prof. Haichong Zhang 50P 4th Floor Robotics for healthcare; Ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging; Image-guided intervention; Human-robot interface Novel Engineering of Swarm Technologies (NEST) Lab Prof. Carlo Pinciroli UH 200C Swarm robotics; Multi-robot systems; Artificial intelligence;Software engineering Perception and Autonomous (PeAR) Group Prof. Nitin J. Sanket UH 100B Artificial Intelligence; Aerial Robotics; Computer Vision; Deep Learning; Learning For Autonomy PracticePoint Prof. Gregory Fischer 50P 4th Floor Surigcal robotics; Image guided therapy; Nursing Robotics; Rehabilitation robotics; Socially Intelligent Robotics for Healthcare (RoboCare) Lab Prof. Fengpei (Fiona) Yuan UH 100D Socially assistive robotics; Multimodal human-robot interaction; Human-centered embodied AI; Robot-assisted dementia care; Technology-assisted healthcare Soft Robotics Lab Prof. Cagdas Onal UH 100E Soft continuum robots; Origami robots; Soft robotics grippers; Soft robotic mobility; Soft sensing;