Our vision is to build
robot perception systems
that can enable long-term and distributed autonomy.

Robot perception is the problem of building an actionable representation of the environment from sensor measurements (see our recent paper). A robot uses these representations to plan and execute actions in the real-world. We leverage our expertise in machine learning, computer vision, and optimization to develop robot perception algorithms and systems for long-term and distributed autonomy.

We are the Perceptica Robotics Lab in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore.

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Hydra++ accepted to IROS 2026

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Latest Update Jul 2026

Hydra++: Real-Time Hierarchical 3D Scene Graph Construction With Object-Level Shape Estimation has been accepted to IROS 2026.

Hydra++ integrates category-agnostic object shape estimation into a real-time hierarchical 3D scene graph pipeline, enabling more detailed object- and scene-level reconstruction in both indoor and outdoor environments.

A collaboration between MIT SPARK and NUS Perceptica Robotics.

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Rajat Talak is serving as an Area Chair for the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference 2026, Sydney Australia.

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Latest Update Mar 2026

Rajat Talak is serving as an Area Chair for the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference 2026, Sydney Australia.

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Rajat Talak is co-organizing the AI4Space Workshop at CVPR 2026, Denver, Colorado, USA.

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Latest Update Mar 2026

Rajat Talak is co-organizing the AI4Space Workshop at CVPR 2026, Denver, Colorado, USA.

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Check out our new NUS Robotics Seminar Series, hosted by the Advanced Robotics Center, NUS.

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Latest Update Mar 2026

Check out our new NUS Robotics Seminar Series, hosted by the Advanced Robotics Center, NUS.

NUS Robotics Seminar Series is an initiative from the Advanced Robotics Centre (ARC) at the National University of Singapore. Designed to spotlight cutting‑edge advances across robotics, this series brings world‑renowned academics, pioneering researchers, and impactful robotics innovators to NUS — creating a vibrant platform for knowledge exchange and collaboration.

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Perceptica Robotics welcomes Siny Zhang, Samshad NC, Ceng Zhang, and Wan Su

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Latest Update Mar 2026

Perceptica Robotics welcomes Siny Zhang, Samshad NC, Ceng Zhang, and Wan Su

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PICASSO: Holistic Scene Reconstruction with Physics-Constrained Sampling

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Latest Update Mar 2026

PICASSO: Holistic Scene Reconstruction with Physics-Constrained Sampling

A collaboration with MIT Spark & NUS Perceptica Robotics.

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Perceptica Robotics welcomes Zhuoxun, Qibin, Haihonog, Gauravi, Tingyu, and Rukshi

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Latest Update Mar 2026

Perceptica Robotics welcomes Zhuoxun, Qibin, Haihonog, Gauravi, Tingyu, and Rukshi

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