- Locomotion and mobility –dynamic locomotion such as dynamic climbing robots
- Non-linear dynamics – for hybrid, non-smooth systems such as hopping and climbing robots
- Field robotics – autonomous vehicles in outdoors/unstructured environmental
- Agricultural Robotics – optimal manipulator design, autonomous precision agriculture
- Planning, sensing and executing complex tasks in unstructured environments with applications in Agricultural, Environmental and Civil Engineering, including fruit picking, search and rescue, inspecting buildings after earth-quacks, etc
- Minimalism in design – Can you build a climbing robot with one motor? no sensors? how much computation do you need in order to complete a given task?
- Manipulation of deformable objects
