NAO Robot

Autonomous Robot Interaction Laboratory

Bridging humans and autonomous systems.

Fuse at Mason Square

The ARI Laboratory is located in the state-of-the art Fuse at Mason Square building.

News

> [students] Welcome new PhD students Chase Morgan, Zhihao Zhang, and Celine Mang!

> [papers] One paper from Puqi Zhou accepted to the 2026 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)!

> [students] Congrats to Puqi Zhou for securing the 2026-2027 Doctoral Research Scholarship at GMU!

> [papers] Two papers accepted to the 2026 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, one of which is Ting's research!

> [papers] New review article on formal methods in end-user development just dropped! Check it out here.

> [papers] David travels to HRI 2026 to present Ting's research at the Meta Special Session!

> [code] ARILab releases Version 1.1 of the Interaction Specification Language (best short contribution at HRI '2025). Download here!

> [papers] Congrats to HFAC students JP Tiger, Neha Kannan, Jacob Henley, and Paige Williamson on a successful HRI Student Design submission!

Older News

> [events] ARI Lab founded.

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