Welcome to MIRL!

We are the Mechanical Intelligence Robotics Lab (MIRL) at Georgia Tech. Mechanical intelligence is the concept of developing new robotic platforms and mechanisms that make challenges for perception, control and autonomy easier or more robust for natural, unstructured, and often unpredictable environments by the virtue of their physical designs. We apply this concept in many difference application areas, such as field robotics, bio-inspired robotics, home robotics, and space robotics. At the core, we build efficient and cool robotic mechanisms and systems that allow robots to have new capabilities and can physically do things they cannot do before.