Research Groups Site Menu Sidebar Menu Research Research Groups CONTACT Location: Unity Hall Phone: 508-831-6665 rbe@wpi.edu 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;