UPenn JIRL

Welcome to the website of the Janus Intelligent Robots Lab (JIRL) at the University of Pennsylvania!
Our group brings expertise from the fields of robotics, artificial intelligence, control theory, and computer vision to the design of intelligent systems that can perceive, reason, and act in complex environments.

What's the story behind the name Janus in a robotics lab? To know more, visit this page.

Location: Levine Hall, Room 404.

News

July, 2026. Penn Engineering has awarded our lab with two Penn Future Funds: (1) Compute-Aware Physical AI for High-Speed Aerial Autonomy and (2) Power as a First-Class Citizen for Agile Robotics. They will support our efforts to advance agile robot autonomy.
Apr, 2026. Congratulations to Luyang Hu for receiving the Penn Engineering Outstanding Academic Award and to Vineet Pasumarti for the Penn Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award!
Mar, 2026. Antonio is giving a keynote at the ROBOVIS Conference.
June, 2025. Antonio is giving a keynote at CVPR'25 Workshop on Embodied Intelligence for Autonomous Systems.