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

• Check out the new and improved Kiri-Spoon for robot-assisted feeding! Great work by Maya, Brandon, Casey, Rajat, and Heramb, and special thanks to The Virginia Home.
• Congradulations to Dr. AJ on his new position as an AI Researcher for Foundation.
• Welcome to our new PhD student Yinlong, and welcome back to our returning PhD student Ben!
• Congradulations Dr. Habibian! Soheil successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation Communication-Driven Robot Learning for Human-Robot Collaboration. Check out his recent interview for VT News here.
• Congradulations Dr. AJ! Ananth becomes the first PhD graduate from Collab with his dissertation Teaching Robots using Interactive Imitation Learning. Check out his recent work on visual imitation learning here.