Build
Code, learned policies, model data, training data, and printable research demonstrations.
Outreach, open resources & workshops
Research that
travels.
Tapia Lab shares robotics and AI research through open code, trained models, educational materials, technical workshops, mentoring programs, and demonstrations for schools and communities.
Beyond the publication
We share more than results.
Our work spans motion planning, machine learning, human–AI interaction, and computational biology. We also release the artifacts that make research reusable, build technical communities around emerging problems, and create pathways into research.
Convene
Technical workshops connecting robotics, machine learning, planning, control, and computational biology.
Connect
Mentoring programs, broadening-participation efforts, and demonstrations for schools and community groups.
Open resources
Use the work.
Selected Tapia Lab releases span computational biology, human–AI interaction, and robot motion planning. Current projects, foundational software, archival research artifacts, and hands-on teaching materials are identified separately so visitors know what each resource provides.
Current release · models · simulation · analysis
Modeling how antibodies assemble.
This computational-biology release documents the construction of three-dimensional molecular models, Monte Carlo simulations, rule-based modeling, and analysis used to study how IgE occupancy and antigen valency shape aggregate formation.
Current platform · human–AI teaming
Busy Beeway.
A mobile navigation game and supporting research infrastructure for studying how people use, adapt to, and coordinate with autonomous navigation controllers over repeated interactions.
Foundational software archive · motion planning
Adaptive Motion Planning Engine.
AMPE brings together planning algorithms and simulation environments developed to study robot navigation among stochastic and dynamically moving obstacles.
Archived software & data · deep learning
Deep prediction of swept-volume geometry.
Network code and training data for predicting the space occupied by robot motions across multiple geometries and resolutions. The release reproduces the original experiments and uses the software environment current at publication.
Hands-on teaching resource · printable models
Molecular docking in your hands.
Three-dimensional models of an adenosine receptor, adenosine, and caffeine make competitive receptor binding tangible for classroom and community demonstrations.
Archived releases may require legacy dependencies. Consult the repository documentation before reuse.
Video demonstrations
Watch the research move.
Short demonstrations make the underlying research problems visible—from interception and crowded navigation to learned geometry and molecular modeling. Use the controls to explore selected videos from the Tapia Lab channel.
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Robot learning · interception
Interception with a robot-held stick.
A deep-reinforcement-learning study of how robot representations affect interception performance and robustness.
Watch on YouTubeWorkshops worldwide
Ideas need communities.
Tapia Lab has organized and co-sponsored workshops at major robotics and computational-biology meetings. Some developed technical communities around emerging research; others paired research exposure with mentoring and career development.
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WAFR · 2018
Becoming a Robot Guru 3
A full-day robotics and mentoring workshop connecting undergraduate participants with graduate, faculty, and industry mentors.
Mérida, México · December 8, 2018
Explore this workshop
Learning, planning, control, and molecular motion.
Forums for researchers to compare methods, define open problems, and form collaborations across technical boundaries.
Robot Guru and interdisciplinary career development.
Programs connecting students with graduate, faculty, and industry mentors while making research careers more legible and accessible.
2018
Becoming a Robot Guru
Robotics & mentoring · WAFR
Mérida, México
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2018
Machine Learning in Planning and Control of Robot Motion
Technical workshop · ICRA
Brisbane, Australia
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2017
ACM BCB Student Mentoring Workshop
Interdisciplinary careers · ACM BCB
Boston, Massachusetts
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2016
Becoming a Robot Guru
Broadening participation · RSS
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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2015
Machine Learning in Planning and Control of Robot Motion
Technical workshop · IROS
Hamburg, Germany
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2015
Becoming a Robot Guru
Broadening participation · ICRA
Seattle, Washington
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2014
Machine Learning in Planning and Control of Robot Motion
Technical workshop · IROS
Chicago, Illinois
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2014
Robotics Methods for Structural and Dynamic Modeling of Molecular Systems
Interdisciplinary research · RSS
Berkeley, California
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Broadening participation
Stronger research communities are built deliberately.
Our outreach includes studying and documenting how conference leadership, research labs, robotics start-ups, and mentoring programs can create more effective pathways into robotics and computing.
2021Retrospective on a Watershed Moment for IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Gender Diversity
2021Gender Diversity of Conference Leadership
2020Becoming a Leader Through Conference Organization
2020Robotics Research During a Pandemic
2019Best Practices of Successful Academic Research Labs
2018The Integration of Diversity with Robotics Start-Ups
2018Workshops to Diversify the Next Generation of Roboticists
Schools & community groups
Bring robotics into the room.
Tapia Lab welcomes requests for robot demonstrations from schools and community organizations. In your message, please include the audience, approximate group size, location, and possible dates so we can determine what is feasible with current lab schedules and equipment.