Robotics and Semantic Systems


Computer Science | LTH | Lund University

Research

The division’s research spans seven interconnected themes, from foundation models and humanoid robots to perception, language and human robot collaboration, extending into medicine and construction.

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Foundation Models and Visuomotor Policies

Volker Krueger, Davide Tateo, Maj Stenmark, +4 more →

Connecting foundation models and learned robot skills with explicit world models and explainable task control.

RoboticsMachine learningHuman robot interactionSoftware

Human-Robot Interaction & Collaborative Robotics

Elin A. Topp, Jacek Malec, Maj Stenmark, +4 more →

Mixed-initiative interaction, situation awareness in shared autonomy, knowledge representation for intuitive instruction of robots, and physical human-robot interaction.

Human robot interactionKnowledge representationNLP

Perception & Autonomous Systems

Eren Aksoy, Christopher Biel, Enes Erdogan

Learning semantic representations from visual experiences to enable more robust perception and intelligent action execution in autonomous systems.

Computer visionRobotics

Multimodal AI and Privacy

Xuan-Son (Sonny) Vu, Pierre Nugues, Quan Nguyen, +3 more →

Parsing, language models and language as a robot interface, and what happens to text when personal data must be removed from it.

NLPMulti-Agent SystemsData PrivacyMultimodal AIMedia & Language

AI and Robotics in Medicine

Maj Stenmark, Esranur Ertürk

Computer vision and autonomous robots in clinical settings, from surgical instrument tracking to robotized instrument handovers.

RoboticsComputer visionHuman robot interactionMachine learning

Construction Robotics

Mathias Haage

Mobile robots that measure, set out and report back from the building site.

RoboticsComputer visionSoftware

Humanoid Robots

Davide Tateo, Volker Krueger, Maj Stenmark, +1 more →

Bringing humanoid robots into the real world, enabling them to react and adapt to dynamic environments.

RoboticsComputer visionHuman robot interactionMachine learning

Last updated: 2026-11-10