Welcome to NUS Human-Centered Robotic Lab (HcRL)! We are in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore.

We are developing intelligent and safe robotic and AI systems, powered by fundamental innovation.

Our vision is human-first: we aim to solve real-world problems to help robots do good, supporting and enhancing life in human-centered environments.

News

2025.05: Fan gave talks at MIT and WPI on "Reinforcement Learning in Robotics: Wins, Fails, and the Next". Thanks for the invitation!

2025.05: We will organize ICRA 2025 Towards Reliable & Trustworthy Embodied AI in Everyday Scenarios Workshop. Welcome to join us!

2025.05: "Learning to Assemble with Alternative Plans" has been accepted to SIGGRAPH 2025 (Journal Track). Kudos to Prof. Ziqi Wang and the team!

2025.05: Ziqiu gave a talk at ETH CRL Seminar on "Fast But Accurate: The Next-Generation Physics Engine for Soft Body Simulations?". Thanks for the invitation!

2025.04: Fan will be joining ICLR 2025 Workshop on Human-AI Coevolution. Looking forward to catching up with you there!

2025.04: Our paper "Fast But Accurate: A Real-Time Hyperelastic Simulator with Robust Frictional Contact" has been accepted to SIGGRAPH 2025 (Journal Track). Read it here.

2025.04: Two Papers got accepted by SIGGRAPH 2025.

2025.03: Fan gave talks at Singapore Intelligence, Robotics and Control Symposium.

2025.01: Fan will serve as the Associate Editor in RA-L and IROS 2025.

2025.01: 2 paper accepted in ICRA 2025, 1 paper accepted in RoboSoft 2025, 1 paper accepted in SSRR. Congratulations to all the collaborators!

2024.11: Fan gave talks at Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Embodied AI Workshop, Distributed AI (DAI) 2024 Conference.

2024.06: Fan gave talks at SISL Lab in Stanford University and Google DeepMind Robotics on AI safety.

2024.06: Our RSS 2024 paper is featured in IEEE Spectrum Video Friday!

2024.06: Fan was selected as the prestigious NUS Presidential Young Professorship.

2024.06: Our lab starts.