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
- 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.
- Way to go Ben and Josh! Ben Christie and Joshua Hoegerman both successfully defended their research and earned MS degrees in May 2024. We are proud of you both and look forward to your next steps!
- Welcome to Robert, a new MS student officially joining Collab in Summer 2024!
