About Us

Established in 2024 by Dr. Meng Cheng Lau, an assistant professor in the Bharti School of Engineering and Computation, LIMRL was developed to provide a dedicated space for students to engage in hands-on learning and innovative research in mobile robotics. The Laurentian Intelligent Mobile Robotics Lab aims to integrate teaching with cutting-edge research, focusing on a range of mobile robots from wheeled platforms to advanced legged humanoid robots. We strive to be a launchpad for future careers in areas like autonomous systems in the mining sector.

Lab Members

Meng Cheng Lau, PhD

Director

Dr. Meng Cheng Lau is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Laurentian University and the Director of the Laurentian Intelligent Mobile Robotics Lab (LIMRL). His research focuses on intelligent mobile robots, human-robot interaction, reinforcement learning, and vision-language-action models for real-world robotic applications.

Prior to joining Laurentian, Dr. Lau was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Sessional Instructor at the University of Manitoba, where he led the Autonomous Agents Lab (AALab) and mentored students in international robotics competitions such as FIRA and RoboCup. He also served as the lead of the Snobots, Canada’s only humanoid robotics team. Before his time in Manitoba, he was a Senior Lecturer at the National University of Malaysia (UKM), where he taught and conducted research in robotics and AI.

Dr. Lau is passionate about integrating AI, computer vision, and machine learning into autonomous systems. His current projects include visual perception for navigation, teleoperation interfaces, and energy-aware modeling for robotic platforms. He actively mentors undergraduate and graduate students and supports student participation in competitive robotics events.

Faculty Profile