{"id":60,"date":"2024-02-23T15:11:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T15:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/template-mercury\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2026-06-27T21:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:45:21","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/airis\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"container-fluid p-0 w-100 hero-split-container\"><div class=\"hero-wrapper hero-split-wrapper\"><div class=\"split-hero-content\"><div class=\"split-hero-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"banner_subtitle\"><p class=\"banner_subtitle_text\"><\/p><\/div><div class=\"banner_title\"><h1>Our Mission<\/h1><br \/><p class=\"hero__excerpt\">We engineer embodied AI and advanced robotics. Our goal is to seamlessly collaborate with humanity.<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/airis\/people\/student-bio\/\" class=\"button animated-border-button button-border-orange button-text-light\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"Join Us\">Join Us<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"hero-bg-img\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/airis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2026\/03\/c1e23a6a6971833fbdf3e297f0b3b0b2d.png)\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Research<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><br>Driving Innovation in Physical AI and Infrastructure<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-create-block-featured-cards\"><section class=\"featured-card-section\"><div class=\"featured-card-container container-fluid\">\n<div class=\"featured-card slick-slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-create-block-featured-cards-inner\"><div class=\"featured-card-inner\"><div class=\"feat-card-parralax-wrapper position-relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/plugins\/ufl-block\/assets\/images\/feat-card-bg.webp\" class=\"animTop\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"image-box\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"featured-card-image\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/airis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2026\/03\/46fcf276e6819461a571972ecdfbd9cf.png\" alt=\"Construction\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"featured-card-title\">Construction<\/div><div class=\"featured-card-text\"><br>Deploying scalable robotics and physical AI to revolutionize construction, automation, and manufacturing workflows.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"featured-card slick-slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-create-block-featured-cards-inner\"><div class=\"featured-card-inner\"><div class=\"feat-card-parralax-wrapper position-relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/plugins\/ufl-block\/assets\/images\/feat-card-bg.webp\" class=\"animTop\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"image-box\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"featured-card-image\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/airis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2026\/03\/be6bcdda811bba47d63892a51a2b5d76.png\" alt=\"Cities\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"featured-card-title\">Cities<\/div><div class=\"featured-card-text\"><br>Enhancing urban resilience and sustainability through smart infrastructure and intelligent systems.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"featured-card slick-slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-create-block-featured-cards-inner\"><div class=\"featured-card-inner\"><div class=\"feat-card-parralax-wrapper position-relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/plugins\/ufl-block\/assets\/images\/feat-card-bg.webp\" class=\"animTop\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"image-box\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"featured-card-image\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/airis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2026\/03\/c7fccaaeb778c434ff97ac18c33263b5.png\" alt=\"Health\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"featured-card-title\">Health<\/div><div class=\"featured-card-text\"><br>Developing advanced medical robotics and intelligent systems to assist healthcare professionals and improve care environments.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"featured-card slick-slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-create-block-featured-cards-inner\"><div class=\"featured-card-inner\"><div class=\"feat-card-parralax-wrapper position-relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/plugins\/ufl-block\/assets\/images\/feat-card-bg.webp\" class=\"animTop\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"image-box\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"featured-card-image\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/airis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2026\/03\/d17f8ddfd8886b3439b3484a64c4752d.png\" alt=\"Workforce\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"featured-card-title\">Workface<\/div><div class=\"featured-card-text\"><br>Advancing human-robot interaction and agentic AI to collaborate seamlessly with the human workforce.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"featured-card slick-slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-create-block-featured-cards-inner\"><div class=\"featured-card-inner\"><div class=\"feat-card-parralax-wrapper position-relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/plugins\/ufl-block\/assets\/images\/feat-card-bg.webp\" class=\"animTop\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"image-box\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"featured-card-image\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/airis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2026\/04\/222.webp\" alt=\"Systems\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"featured-card-title\">Systems<\/div><div class=\"featured-card-text\"><br>Pioneering embodied intelligence and autonomous AI agents to enable complex perception, reasoning, and physical manipulation within dynamic infrastructure environments.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Driving Innovation in Physical AI and Infrastructure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1429,"featured_media":43849,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-60","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/airis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/airis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/airis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/airis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/airis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/airis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44483,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/airis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions\/44483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/airis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/airis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}