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ASPIRE Lab is hiring a Junior Project Assistant to work on robotics research. BTech in Mechanical, Mechatronics, Robotics, Electrical, or ECE required. Applications close 31st August 2026.

Congratulations to Dr Krishnendu Roy for his doctor-hood at the 15th Convocation at IIT Hyderabad. Many congratulations to Sathwik, Saurabh, and Viswa Kiran for their well-earned MTech degrees, and to Shriram for his graduation!

Congratulations to VVS Viswa Kiran et al. for receiving the Best Poster Award at the 2026 IEEE Applied Sensing Conference (APSCON) for their work on a multi-sensor fusion framework for UAV navigation and inspection in GPS-denied and degraded environments.

We are now accepting applications for internship positions at ASPIRE Lab. Click the link to learn more and apply.

We are excited to launch our new website alongside our new name, ASPIRE Lab (Autonomous Systems, Perception, Intelligence, Robotics, and Exploration). The lab was formerly known as the Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab (RIS Lab). Our previous website can still be viewed via the Wayback Machine archive.

Congratulations to N Shyam Sridhar, Aashish Sahu, S Rami Reddy, and R Prasanth Kumar for receiving the Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics 2025 for their work on collaborative payload transport using a four-quadcopter swarm.