Abstract: AI is moving both faster and slower than the general public realizes — it is being deployed extensively across many domains, but we are also still very, very far away from the sorts of autonomous robots[...]

Abstract: Robots generally excel at specific tasks in structured environments, but lack the versatility and adaptability required to interact-with and locomote-within the natural world. To increase versatility in robot design, my research group is developing[...]

Abstract: Understanding human activity is a very challenging task, but a prerequisite for the autonomy of robots interacting with humans. Solutions that generalize must involve not only perception but also cognition and a grounding in[...]

Abstract: Living organisms face a wide range of physical challenges in their environments, yet frequently display exceptional performance.  The performance is often correlated with morphological features, physiological differences, or particular behaviors, leading to the hypothesis[...]