Welcome to the Collaborative Robotics Lab (Collab) at Virginia Tech! We create learning and control algorithms for robots that collaborate with people. Our goal is to develop intelligent robots that understand — and are understood by — their human partners. These robots personalize their behavior: continually adapting to what the human wants and proactively helping them to achieve their goals. Overall, our research explores the intersection of human-robot interaction, machine learning, and control theory, with applications in personal, interactive, and assistive robots.

News

• Mohammad joins Collab! We also welcome Misha, Sam, Ethan, and Arhan for exciting summer projects!
• Congradulations to Keone, Grace, Iain, Sagar, Ben, Yinlong, and Mohammad for their accepted IROS papers! You can find the MEMO and hand-held Kiri-Spoon preprints Under Publications!
• Way to go *Dr.* Sagar! Sagar successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation From Pixels to Partners: A Hierarchical Approach to Adaptive Human-Robot Collaboration.
• Congradulations to *Dr.* Shahab! Shahab successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation Learning to Collaborate: Toward Robust, Adaptive Policies for Human–Robot Teams.
• In collaboration with UVA and GMU, we hosted the first annual Virginia Robotics Symposium! Robotics students and faculty from around Virginia met to present recent research and discuss new directions.