Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
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Robotics revolves around the building of intelligent physical machines. Artificial intelligence (AI) implies the use of a computer to model and/or replicate intelligent behavior. Research in AI focuses on the development and analysis of algorithms that learn and/or perform intelligent behavior with minimal human intervention. AI techniques have been and continue to be applied to a broad range of problems that arise in robotics, agriculture, medical diagnosis, gaming, mathematics, and logistics.
Work in this division draws from and contributes to multiple domains:
- Artificial Intelligence studies algorithms and systems in areas such as machine learning, logic, planning, neural networks, inference engines, evolutionary computation, and cognition;
- Robotics designs and creates robotic systems including mobile robots, manipulators, underwater systems, and aerial platforms along with the algorithms that empower them;
- Computer Vision develops algorithms and systems to derive meaningful information from videos, images, and other visual inputs;
- Human-Robot Interaction investigates and creates new techniques for effective interaction of humans with robots;
- Natural Language Processing studies ways to build systems that process text or voice data; and
- Applications use robotics and artificial intelligence to impact domains such as medicine, agriculture, manufacturing, education, logistics, biology, etc.
Core Faculty
![Karthik Desingh](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Desingh_Karthik_headshot_0.jpg.webp?itok=awpWM1gm)
![Maria Gini](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Maria%20Gini%20UMN.jpg.webp?itok=yXuVVpDS)
Professor, CSE Distinguished Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor
![Volkan Isler](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Isler_Volkan_headshot_thumb.jpg.webp?itok=9QUmM7wt)
![Dongyeop Kang headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/dykang2-enhanced.jpg.webp?itok=_C3VPfE4)
![Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/101823cse314ret.jpg.webp?itok=1NBPXDKU)
Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Professor, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Director of Graduate Studies for Robotics, Minnesota Robotics Institute Director
![Hyun Soo Park headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/HyunSooPark.png.webp?itok=0HGSMHKY)
Associate Professor, McKnight Presidential Fellow
![Junaed Sattar](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Sattar_Junead_headshot_thumb.jpg.webp?itok=AbRv8w3B)
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![Catherine](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Zhao_Catherine_1.jpeg.webp?itok=qwDyB4Od)
Associate Professor, Dean's Fellow
Affiliated Faculty
![Boley Dan](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Boley_Dan_headshot_thumb.jpg.webp?itok=dwCGHpdf)
Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor, Director of Graduate Studies for Data Science
![Victoria Interrante headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Interrante_Victoria.jpg.webp?itok=urNdNS7E)
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies for Cognitive Science
![Vipin Kumar headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Kumar_Vipin_1.jpg.webp?itok=6RYEj1QF)
Regents Professor, William Norris Land Grant Chair in Large-Scale Computing, Data Science Initiative Director
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Labs and selected projects
- Applied Motion Lab Stephen Guy
- Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Vision Lab Maria Gini, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
- Computational Perception and Action Lab Paul Schrater
- Interactive Robotics and Vision Laboratory Junaed Sattar
- MAGNET: Intelligent Agents for Electronic Commerce Maria Gini
- Monitoring Human Activity Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
- Robotics: Perception and Manipulation (RPM) Lab Karthik Desingh
- Robotic Sensor Networks Lab Volkan Isler
- TAC-SCM: Autonomous Agents for Supply-Chain Management Maria Gini
- Visual Information Processing Lab Catherine Qi Zhao
- Visual Computing and AI Seminar
- UMN Machine Learning Seminar Series