2026.04.24-26

• APRL was selected as DGIST's representative lab for the 2026 Korea Science Festival (대한민국 과학축제) and operated a booth introducing our research to the public. 🎪🤖

2026.03.31

• APRL had a strawberry party! 🍓🎉

  • APRL members gathered to enjoy strawberries together. A perfect way to welcome spring and recharge before the busy season ahead! 🌸🤖

2026.03.06

• APRL's 2nd Research Day was held! 🎉

  • Seven graduate students, one postdoctoral researcher, and three undergraduate interns came together to share their ongoing research. With the lab growing fast, Research Day is proving to be a great venue for everyone to stay connected and learn from each other's work. 🚀🤖📚

2026.02.06

• APRL members attended KRoC 2026. 

  • Giseop received the Early-career Researcher Award and presented "Memory-Augmented Spatial Intelligence for Autonomous Robot Navigation" at the award session — congratulations! 🎉 

  • He also gave two additional talks: "IMU Basics and Inertial Aided Navigation" at the Spatial AI Tutorial, and "CoT/Scene-graph/and Recent Paradigms for Mobile Robot Navigation: A Short Survey and Real-World Lessons" at Special Session 3: AI-based Autonomous Systems.

2025.10.31

• Nayak provided the lab members with a tutorial and hands-on experience on magnetic sensors, and they also discussed potential applications of magnetic sensors on mobile robots.

2025.10.24

• Jiseon received the Best Poster Award at the HEAI Workshop of IROS 2025 — congratulations!

2025.10.19-25

• We attended IROS 2025, which were held at Hangzhou, China.

2025.10.02

• We attended CoRL 2025 and Humanoids 2025, which were held at COEX in Seoul, South Korea.

2025.09.03

• APRL's summer days ☀️🌿🍃

2025.08.14 

• APRL’s very first Research Day was held today! 🎉 

  • Our 2025 fall incoming students gathered to introduce their research to one another. Bokeon Suh and Jiseon Kim presented the projects they worked on during their five-month internships at APRL, while Yumin Lee and Hyoseok Ju shared the work they conducted at KIST before joining APRL. Welcome to all our new graduate students! 🚀🤖📚

2025.05.01 

• Our lab was featured in the Young Robot Engineer interview series by irobotnews .com  (로봇신문)!

2025.04.09 

• Say hello to APRL's newest recruit — a wiggly little pup!

  • He'll be working on social context-aware visual language navigation, semantic object-goal navigation, and wheel-legged SLAM. 🐶📚🤖

2025.04.05

• Our lab participated in the DGIST RME OpenLab, where we introduced our research areas and showcased a LiDAR SLAM demonstration.