The BioMorphic Intelligence Lab is all about biologically inspired solutions for aerial robotics. Aerial robots are now ubiquitous. Thanks to their nimbleness, manoeuvrability, and affordability, drones are used in many sectors to monitor, map, and inspect. As a next step, flying robots offer more when interacting with their surroundings via anthropomorphic-like manipulation capabilities. Some overarching challenges remain for this new class of aerial robots, and solutions inspired by biology can be implemented across three key areas for robot performance: sensing their environment, processing this information, and acting upon the results.The BioMorphic Intelligence Lab aims to tackle robustness and efficiency challenges for interacting drones, using biologically inspired solutions for both the ‘body’ and the ‘brain’ and applying embodied intelligence and neuromorphic AI techniques.

The SensorAI Lab focuses on developing AI for Sensor Networks. Sensors are everywhere and technological advances have made sensors more available and more accurate over recent years, opening up many exciting applications. The field of sensor fusion focuses on combining data from different types of sensors in order to extract more information than that available from each sensor alone. AI can also be used: new models can be established using data from sensors and sensor networks. The Sensor AI Lab unites the fields of sensor fusion and AI, bringing physical knowledge into AI to enable the extraction of more information from available sensor data.