Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST) Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering
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APRL announcements and updates.

2026

  1. AwardGiseop Kim has been selected for the Outstanding Young Researcher Award at ICROS 2026.

  2. FundingAPRL has been awarded $5,000 through the Google Cloud Research Credits Program. The credits will support our project on Social Compliant Vision-Language Navigation (SC-VLN), enabling large-scale multimodal inference and benchmark evaluation for socially aware robot navigation.

  3. PublicationThree workshop papers from our lab have been accepted to ICRA 2026. Congrats to Doyeon and Nayak+Hyoseok for their papers accepted to the MM-SpatialAI Workshop, and to Hoyun for his paper accepted to the Workshop on Perceptual Challenges for Planetary Exploration.

  4. Publication1 paper accepted to IFAC 2026. Congratulations to Bokeon.

  5. FundingOur lab has been awarded the NRF Young Researcher Program (Type B) grant from the Ministry of Science and ICT, supporting research on multi-robot autonomy with implicit human-robot interaction (Project title: AIMS) for four years (2026-2029).

  6. PeopleWelcome new members joining APRL: Doyeon Kim (PhD student), Beomsu Kim (MS student), and Hoyun Kim (MS student).

  7. Publication1 paper accepted to ICRA 2026. Congratulations to Hyoseok.

  8. AwardGiseop has been selected as an early-career researcher for KRoC 2026. He will present his recent work on memory-augmented spatial intelligence for long-term autonomous robot navigation.

  9. EventGiseop organizes and leads the Spatial AI Tutorial at KRoC 2026.

  10. PeopleWelcome 2026-winter undergraduate interns: Hyeonwoo Jeong, Yewon Kim, and Ayun Lee, who have joined APRL for the 2026 Winter+Spring internship on DGIST 4D Mapping and Intelligent Robot Exploration.

2025

  1. AwardJiseon received the Best Poster Award at the HEAI Workshop of IROS 2025. Congratulations.

  2. PublicationThree workshop papers from our lab have been accepted to IROS 2025. Congrats to Hyoseok for his paper accepted to the 15th Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles (PPNIV), and to Jiseon and Bokeon for their papers accepted to the Human-Aware Embodied AI (HEAI) workshop.

  3. PeopleExcited to welcome Dr. Nayak, formerly a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. CheolGi Kim's lab at DGIST, who joins our lab through the InnoCORE project to pioneer Magnetic SLAM research.

  4. ReleaseGiseop contributed to Chapter 8: LiDAR SLAM of the SLAM Handbook, which has now been released online.

  5. FundingThe Robotics and Mechatronics Research Institute of DGIST has been selected for the Ministry of Education's Glocal Lab program. Our lab will conduct research on sensor fusion, robot perception, and cognitive AI for augmented human robots.

  6. PeopleBokeon Suh, Jiseon Kim, Yumin Lee, and Hyoseok Ju have joined our lab to begin their graduate research journey.

  7. FundingAPRL has been selected for the DGIST Creative Challenging Research (N-HRHR) Program, supporting high-risk, high-return research in Physical AI and robotics for 6 months with 100M KRW.

  8. FundingDGIST has been selected for Korea's InnoCORE initiative on Bio-Embodied Physical AI. Our lab, as part of the DGIST team, is recruiting talented postdocs in SLAM, 3D vision, and vision-language navigation.

  9. FundingOur lab is supported by the fund, AI Star Fellowship, from Ministry of Science and ICT for the next six years (2025-2030).

  10. PeopleJiseon Kim has joined APRL as an undergraduate researcher.

  11. PeopleBokeon Suh has joined APRL as an undergraduate researcher.

2024

  1. LabAutonomy and Perceptual Robotics Lab (APRL) at DGIST was started in Dec 2024 by Giseop Kim.