People

Principle Investigator

Daoguan Ning

Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science
University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Graduate Students

Adaptive Robot Policies

How can robot policies adapt dynamically at inference time to handle new tasks, environments, and embodiment variations?

Interactive World Models

How can structured world models help agents anticipate spatial, temporal, and physical interactions before acting?

Proactive Self-Improvement

How can agents verify and learn from their own predictions to improve continually with minimal human supervision?

Undergraduate Students

Proactive Self-Improvement

How can agents verify and learn from their own predictions to improve continually with minimal human supervision?

Research Staff

Proactive Self-Improvement

How can agents verify and learn from their own predictions to improve continually with minimal human supervision?

Visiting Scholars

Adaptive Robot Policies

How can robot policies adapt dynamically at inference time to handle new tasks, environments, and embodiment variations?

Alumni

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