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Research Groups

The Hamlyn Centre

Driving innovation with a focus on clinical translation, advancing imaging, sensing, and robotics research to tackle global health challenges.

Manipulation & Touch Lab

Movement and sensing in natural and artiﬁcial hand/arm systems, applied to the medical, production and manufacture domains.

Dyson Robotics Lab

Researching computer vision and scene understanding algorithms for next-generation smart robotics, with a focus on real-time vision and SLAM.

Morphological Computation & Learning Lab

Exploring how physical mechanisms in the body and environment aid in solving computational challenges related to efficient survival in unstructured environments.

Adaptive & Intelligent Robotics Lab

Enhancing robot versatility, adaptability, and resilience to unexpected scenarios like mechanical failure, using deep learning and evolutionary computation for legged locomotion.

Robot Learning Lab

Advancing intelligent robots to assist in everyday environments, focusing on computer vision, machine learning, and robotics, with emphasis on teaching robots to use arms and hands.

Mechatronics in Medicine

Developing robotic and mechatronics surgical systems for a variety of procedures including neuro, cardiovascular, orthopaedic surgeries, and colonoscopies.

Personal Robotics Lab

Advancing robotics for human physical, cognitive, and social well-being through intelligent perception, machine learning, user modelling, cognitive control architectures, and personalised assistance generation.

Human Robotics Group

Research in human-machine interaction, human sensorimotor control and learning, machine intelligence, rehabilitation systems design and evaluation, at the forefront of robotics and neuroscience.

Aerial Robotics Lab

Research in the design, fabrication and testing of advanced aerial robotic systems using bioinspiration, ﬂuid structure interaction, and micro fabrication.

Insect Sensorimotor Control Lab

Studying biological control design through behavioral studies, electrophysiology, and anatomical analysis to understand neural mechanisms and morphological constraints in gaze and flight stabilization reflexes.

Neuromechanics Lab

Research in how neural information is coupled to the physical bodies to produce highly sophisticated biological motor control and intelligent behaviours, looking at locomotion, neurobiology, and animal ﬂight.

Control & Multi-Agent Systems

Exploring nonlinear control theory topics, including differential games, robust control, output feedback, and distributed control, with applications in multi-agent systems and robotics.

Robot Intelligence Lab

Developing advanced machine learning algorithms to enhance cognitive and physical abilities of autonomous robots, leveraging robot learning, artificial intelligence, cognitive robotics, and reinforcement learning.

Transport Systems & Logistics Lab

Conducting research at the intersection of transportation theory and technology, developing tools and algorithms to enhance the quality, efficiency, and resilience of transport operations across modes.

Sense Robotics Lab

Focusing on robotics and AI, advancing perception, mapping, navigation, and autonomy to address societal challenges like climate change, healthcare, transportation, and industry efficiency for a sustainable future.

Personal, Assistive, & Intelligent Robotics Lab

Developing robots to enhance human interactions in dynamic environments by creating user models and delivering personalized feedback for long-term skill acquisition in daily tasks.

Micro-Nano Innovation Lab

Investigating multidisciplinary approaches to develop new intelligent sensing and robotic strategies in micro/nano scales.