Intelligent Robotics Lab (IRLab)
Welcome to the Intelligent Robotics Lab (IRLab) in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. We have a history of working on basic and applied research projects at the intersection of AI, robotics, and machine learning. Our researchers have expertise in computer vision, knowledge representation and reasoning, cognitive systems, interactive learning, formal verification, and dexterous manipulation. Our research projects and educational initiatives are funded by competitive grants from funding agencies and industrial collaborators in the UK, EU, US, and other countries.
Media Gallery
Videos demonstrating work on a Refinement-based architecture for representing and reasoning with common sense knowledge on robots.
IRLab Staff
Staff and students within the IRLab
Current Research Students, Alumni and Collaborators
Current Research Students, Alumni and Collaborators
Lab Alumni
- Dr. Rusen Aktas, Tractable
- Dr. Ermano Arruda, Dyson
- Dr. Morteza Azad, Ocado
- Dr. Gavin Brown, University of Manchester
- Dr. Chris Burbridge, Tata Motors
- Dr. Dominik Belter, TU Posnan
- Dr. Damien Duff, Istanbul Technical University
- Dr. Juhan Ernits
- Dr. Charles Gretton
- Dr. Axel Grossmann
- Dr. Marc Hanheide, University of Lincoln
- Dr. Nick Hawes, University of Oxford
- Dr. Michael Kneebone
- Dr. Tim Kovacs
- Dr. Lars Kunze, Oxford Robotics Institute
- Dr. Bruno Lacerda, Oxford Robotics Institute
- Dr. Michael Mathew, Ocado
- Dr. Michael Mistry, University of Edinburgh
- Dr. Mete Ozay, Tohoku University
- Dr. Veronica Arriola Rios, UNAM Mexico
- Dr. Zeyn Saigol, TSC
- Dr. Katrina Samperi
- Dr. Funlade Sunmola, University of Hertfordshire
- Dr. Jose Nunez Varela, UASLP, Mexico
- Dr. Krzysztof Walas
- Dr. Noel Welsh
- Dr. Jay Young, University of Sheffield
- Dr. Michael Zillich, TU Wien
- Dr. Claudio Zito, University of Birmingham
- Dr. Sebastian Zurek
Collaborating labs/groups
- Vision for Robotics Group, ACIN, TU Wien
- Visual Cognitive Systems Lab, Univ of Ljubjlana
- Autonomous Agents Research Group, Univ of Edinburgh
- Learning Agents Research Group, Univ of Texas Austin
- Perception and Manipulation Group, CSIC
- Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise
- Centre for Autonomous Systems, KTH
- Computer Vision Group, RWTH Aachen
- Intelligent and Interactive Systems Lab, Univ of Innsbruck
- Centro Piaggio, Pisa
- AI Group, Univ of Leeds
- Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems, Univ of Lincoln
Research Students
- Mohammad Ani
- Edoardo Bacci
- Wei Chen
- Fatma Faruq
- Laura Ferrante
- Nora Horanyi
- Michalina Jakubczak
- Irfan Muhammad
- Oliver Kim
- Mark Robson
- Saif Sidhik
- Tze Tse
- Jinyu Yang
Projects
Find out more about our current research projects.