We believe that embodiment is an inseparable part of intelligence, determining its interaction capabilities with the physical world and its ability to effect meaningful change involving real atoms, not just virtual bits. Furthermore, we believe that computational and embodied aspects of artificial intelligence can not be studied in isolation, as they inform and enable each other. We thus focus on collaborative, interdisciplinary projects involving data collection through novel sensor designs and sensing paradigms, computational aspects of control, planning and learning, and actuation and interaction via physical mechanisms and robots. Examples of such projects include intelligent wearable robots for rehabilitation, empathic robots, light-based tactile fingers for robotic manipulation, computational cameras, robot-enabled remote manufacturing, and many more.
