Autonomy and Perceptual Robotics Lab

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(Mar. 2026) Our lab has been awarded the NRF Young Researcher Program (Type B) grant from the Ministry of Science and ICT, supporting research on multi-robot autonomy with implicit human-robot interaction (Project title: AIMS) for four years (2026–2029).
(Mar. 2026) Welcome new members joining APRL — Doyeon Kim (PhD student), Beomsu Kim (MS student), and Hoyun Kim (MS student)!
(Feb. 2026) 1 paper accepted to ICRA 2026 — congratulations to Hyoseok!
(Feb. 2026) Giseop has been selected as an early-career researcher for KRoC 2026 (The 21st Korea Robotics Conference). He will present his recent work on memory-augmented spatial intelligence for long-term autonomous robot navigation.
(Oct, 2025) Jiseon received the Best Poster Award at the HEAI Workshop of IROS 2025 — congratulations!
(Sep, 2025) The Robotics and Mechatronics Research Institute of DGIST has been selected for the Ministry of Education's Glocal Lab (University-Focused Research Institute) program. Our lab will be conducting research on sensor fusion, robot perception, and cognitive AI for augmented human robots (transhuman).
(Jun. 2025) DGIST has been selected for Korea’s InnoCORE initiative on Bio-Embodied Physical AI — our lab, as part of the DGIST team, is recruiting talented postdocs in SLAM, 3D vision, and vision-language navigation.
(May. 2025) Our lab is supported by the fund, AI Star Fellowship, from Ministry of Science and ICT for next six years (2025-2030).

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