Research Area

Robotics Intelligence

The Robot Intelligence Lab at Samsung Research America is a new facility dedicated to advancing the field of robotics through cutting-edge research and development. The lab's mission is to develop advanced technologies to power intelligent robotic systems capable of manipulation, navigation, and complex reasoning for a variety of high-impact application areas. To achieve this mission, the lab collaborates closely with external entities such as universities, startups, and government labs, as well as with several Samsung Product and Adanced Research labs.

Locations

Mountain View, CA

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Vision

Large strides in AI capability have the promise to profoundly influence robots' ability to perform human-like tasks, but turning this promise into reality remains a challenge. Our approach balances optimism with an awareness of the realities of human environments and factories, in which robots must operate reliably across billions of units and trillions of touches and customer interactions. The lab conducts robot intelligence R&D in core technology and open standards with the goal of enabling rapid cross-platform, cross-algorithm, cross-task integration.

Research Topics

Dexterity

Enabling robots to control objects precisely, capably, and reliably using vision, touch, and actuation.

Reasoning

Developing hybrid intelligence architectures for composing multiple skills and algorithms into long-range, competent behaviors.

Ecosystem

Leading standardization efforts that reduce integration friction between robot hardware, software, human-machine interface, and AI providers.

Work Highlight

AI-Enabled Automation

Recent advances in multi-modal foundation models are poised to enable breakthroughs in robotic automation, allowing robots to be programmed faster and handle more challenging tasks.