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

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!
Apr, 2026. Our new paper Residual Copilot is now on arXiv! Residual Copilot is a sim-to-real shared autonomy teleoperation framework for finegrained manipulation.
Apr, 2026. Our new paper RoSHI is now on arXiv! RoSHI is a versatile robot-oriented suit for capturing human motion in the wild.
Mar, 2026. Antonio is giving a keynote at the ROBOVIS Conference.
Dec, 2025. New paper on arxiv on learning emergent tactical behaviors in autonomous drone racing!
June, 2025. Antonio is giving a keynote at CVPR'25 Workshop on Embodied Intelligence for Autonomous Systems.
May, 2025. Hearing Hands is accepted at CVPR'25, Xtreme Low-Level Control at T-RO, and VLMNav at Neus25.