Welcome to the Humanoid Robots Lab!
Our lab is at the forefront of robotics research, where we explore innovative ways to integrate robots into human environments and contribute to cutting-edge projects. We combine AI and robotics to develop methods for robots that perceive, plan, and act autonomously in cluttered and dynamic real-world environments, with applications in sustainable agriculture, mobile manipulation, and everyday robotics.
Hot News
HRL at IROS 2026, Pittsburgh, USA
Niklas Mueller-Goldingen and Benno Wingender will present their work at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh on learning scene graphs for occlusion reasoning in pepper plants and on unified pick-and-place planning for the stable placement of unknown objects in confined environments. Furthermore, Maren Bennewitz will give an invited talk on human context in robot navigation at the Workshop on Social Robot Navigation.
Open PhD Positions at the Humanoid Robots Lab
The Humanoid Robots Lab at the University of Bonn is recruiting two fully funded PhD students (100% TV-L E13) to join our international research team.
Thesis Awards for Student Research Supervised by HRL PhD Candidate Rohit Menon
Niklas Mueller-Goldingen received the Bonner Informatik Group Best Thesis Award for his thesis conducted at the Humanoid Robots Lab, which also led to our joint IROS paper on SG-DOR. Yasmin Schmiede received the Grace Hopper Thesis Award for her thesis work conducted at Prof. Hermann Blum’s RPL lab. Both theses were supervised by HRL PhD candidate Rohit Menon, and we congratulate Niklas and Yasmin on this recognition.
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