Welcome to the Fluent Robotics Lab! We are part of the Department of Robotics at the University of Michigan. Our mission is to enable robots to fluently work with and around people in dynamic, unstructured environments. We develop algorithms, systems, and human-machine interfaces to enable novel functionality, support users, and extract new knowledge.
News
05/01/2025: Our robotic pixel art system to appear in the Arts in Robotics Session at ICRA 2025.01/27/2025: Paper on push-based multi-object rearrangement accepted to ICRA 2025.
12/04/2024: Paper on human-robot collaborative transport accepted to HRI 2025.
10/29/2024: Paper on the complexity of social navigation scenarios accepted to RA-L.
07/19/2024: Best paper award at the RSS social navigation workshop.
05/14/2024: Paper on HOUND, our open-source, offroad vehicle accepted to RSS.
03/28/2024: Paper on high-DoF manipulation via electrostatic braking accepted to IJRR.
01/29/2024: Paper on mapping natural language to robot programs accepted to ICRA 2024.
10/01/2023: Paper presentations [1, 2] and workshop talks at IROS [1, 2].
08/28/2023: Paper on modeling traffic interactions as topological braids published in IJRR!
08/28/2023: The Fluent Robotics Lab is starting up at Michigan Robotics!
