Justin Hart headshot
Assistant Professor of Practice
Director, Living with Robots Laboratory

Affiliations:
Texas Robotics (core faculty)
UT Good Systems (co-director of Living and Working with Robots)

Research

Autonomous & Social Human-Robot Interaction, Artificial Intelligence and Architectures for Robotics, Service Robots

My research aims to enable robots to operate fluently in human environments, with the long-term goal of deploying interactive service robots in homes and workplaces. My lab studies how robots can interact effectively with people and function robustly in places designed for people rather than for machines. This work draws on models of human behavior, system architectures for autonomy, and perception. To study these questions in practice, I build and field integrated robotic systems that combine machine learning, foundation models, large language models, and semantic mapping and perception.

Contact

Email is the best way to reach me for research, collaborations, and most other reasons.
hart@cs.utexas.edu
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