Robotics research in the department of computing at imperial spans overlapping themes including electrical and mechanical engineering, sensors and digital hardware, machine learning and reinforcement learning, autonomous and multiagent systems, human–robot interaction and social robotics, as well as cognitive and computational psychology.

Research groups and centre

Research groups and centres

Academics

  • Alessio Lomuscio

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    Professor of Safe Artificial Intelligence

    020 7594 8414

    Location

    911今日黑料-X, Translation & Innovation Hub Building, White City Campus, United Kingdom

    Research Interests

    Theory of computation, applied mathematics, cognitive and computational psychology & pure mathematics.

  • Andrew Davison

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    Professor of Robot Vision

    020 7594 8316

    Location

    303, William Penney Laboratory, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom

    Research Interests

    Electrical engineering, electronics, sensors and digital hardware, mechanical engineering, cognitive and computational psychology, information systems & psychology.

  • Antoine Cully

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    Professor of Machine Learning and Robotics

    020 7594 8204

    Location

    354, ACE Extension, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom

    Research Interests

    Electrical engineering, electronics, sensors and digital hardware, mechanical engineering, information systems, cognitive and computational psychology, social robotics, intelligent robotics, reinforcement learning, mixed initiative and human-in-the-loop, autonomous agents and multiagent systems, automation engineering, artificial life and complex adaptive systems, procedural content generation, fuzzy computation, neural networks, deep learning & evolutionary computation.

  • Edward Johns

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    Associate Professor of Robot Learning

    Location

    365, ACE Extension, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom

    Research Interests

    Social robotics intelligent robotics, reinforcement learning, mixed initiative and human-in-the-loop, autonomous agents and multiagent systems, automation engineering, manufacturing robotics, machine learning & computer vision.

  • Nicole Salomons

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    Assistant Professor

    Research Interests

    Human-robot interaction, tutoring robots, in-home robotics, user modelling & robot conformity

  • Stephen James

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    Assistant Professor

    Location

    Huxley Building,South Kensington Campus

    Research Interests

    Robot learning