Paper Presented in IROS 2026 (Workshop) | Fold-to-Fit
Fold-to-Fit: Propeller Interaction and Control of a Coaxial-Bicopter Quadrotor by Pravesh Rana Vadapalli was presented at the IROS 2026 Workshop on Insect-scale Autonomy in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Best Poster Award at IROS 2026 (Workshop) | TinyFlow
TinyFlow: Breaking the Warping Bottleneck for Edge Optical Flow by Xiao'ao Song won the Best Poster Award at the IROS 2026 Workshop on Insect-scale Autonomy in Pittsburgh, PA, as voted by the workshop attendees.
IROS Workshop accepted | Insect-scale Autonomy
The IROS workshop on Insect-scale Autonomy was held in Pittsburgh, PA on Oct 1, 2026.
Paper Presented in ICRA 2026 (Workshop)
Safety-Bounded Space Robot Navigation via Vision-Language Model Integration was presented in ICRA SpaRo Workshop 2026.
Served as Editor for MDPI Drones
Prof. Chahat Singh served as an editor for MDPI Special Issue - 'From Nature to Flight - Bio-Inspired UAV Design and Intelligence'
Served as AE for IROS 2026
Prof. Chahat Singh served as Associate Editor for IROS 2026
Granted Google Cloud Credits
PRAISe Lab were granted Google Cloud Research Credits for Drone Autonomy Research
New Course - AI for Engineers
An advanced cross-listed undergraduate and graduate course that develops the mathematical foundations and engineering practice of classical machine learning through modern deep learning.
Thanushraam received the Outstanding Course Assistant Award
Thanushraam Suresh received the Outstanding Course Assistant Award for Advanced Computer Vision Course - Fall 2025.
Co-hosted BISCCITs Workshop
CU Boulder was honored to host the Bio-Inspired Sensing Collaborative International Teams (BISCCITs) workshop this year.
Photo: Dominik Stodulski, CC BY-SA 3.0
Seminar by Yiannis Aloimonos
Invited talk on "Action Grammar - The Basis of Intelligent Robots".
Robotic Bees - News Article
Robotic bees? These bio-inspired robots redefine the boundaries of autonomy and sustainability
ICRA40
PRAISe Lab presented two papers at ICRA40—CodedVO and Minimal Perception.
CU Boulder
Chahat Deep Singh joins CU Boulder as an assistant professor.
Active HumanPose
Active Human Pose Estimation via UAV will be presented at IROS 2024.
CodedEvents
CodedEvents was presented at CVPR 2024.
CodedVO
Coded Visual Odometry was published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
AMI-EV
The AMI-EV camera was published in Science Robotics.
AcTExplore
A novel tactile-exploration method was presented at ICRA 2024.
Tiny Drones
Chahat Deep Singh creates tiny drones inspired by small animals.