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Anirudha
Majumdar

Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

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Research interests: Controlling highly agile robotic systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles, with formal guarantees on their safety and performance.

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Two robotic arms poised over plastic storage containers of sorted objects. In between the storage containers are additional items to be sorted, including a detergent bottle and two wooden blocks, colored yellow and orange.
Engineers at Princeton University and Google developed a new way to teach robots to know when they don’t know and ask for clarifica-tion from a human. The researchers tested their method on a simulated robotic arm and on two types of robot hardware. Photo by the researchers

How do you make a robot smarter?

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Faculty commended for outstanding teaching

Photo of a robot with a camera "face" looking at a kitchen counter with two plastic water bottles and an apple.
Engineers at Princeton University and Google have come up with a new way to teach robots to know when they don’t know and ask for clarification from a human. Photo by the researchers

How do you make a robot smarter? Program it to know what it doesn’t know.

Foam board with a pinned grasshopper specimen, with wings extended, and four rows with different colors and shapes of synthetic wings under investigation for flying robots.
A team led by Pierre-Thomas Brun and Aimy Wissa is studying the structures and capabilities of grasshopper wings and flying fish fins. An innovation grant will allow the researchers to test different types of foldable wings and model their performance. Photos by Tori Repp/Fotobuddy

Innovation funds support research in robotics, machine learning, climate resilience and more

Graphic with text "Commendation for Outstanding Teaching".

Faculty commended for outstanding teaching

Felix Heide and Anirudha Majumdar
Felix Heide and Anirudha Majumdar. Photos by Sameer Khan/Fotobuddy and David Kelly Crow.

Heide and Majumdar awarded 2023 Sloan Fellowships

Affiliations

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Solving problems in energy, combustion, fluids, lasers, materials science, robotics and control systems, and nuclear security