Welcome to the Robotics Lab@IIT.  Our research is in the general area of robotics with specific attention to mobility in challenging environments.

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Recent News
April 2014: The Robotics Lab returned to the Museum of Science and Industry for the third year in a row to exhibit our research.  We brought the VIV, the latest HyTAQ, gecko-like grippers, and the autonomous perching test facility. 

April 2014: Arash Kalantari won the 2014 IIT Sigma Xi Research Award for outstanding graduate student at IIT.

April 2014: Chenghui Nie successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis!

April 2014: Karan Mahajan won the MMAE poster competition for undergraduates with his work: Development of a Platform to Perform Autonomous Perching Maneuvers for Micro Unmanned Air Vehicles

January 2014: Don Ruffatto had two journal papers and two conference papers accepted.

December 2013: Gareth Meirion-Griffith had a paper accepted to the Journal of Terramechanics