AI Cobots for Next-Generation Shipyards

Shipyards demand collaborative environments in which humans and robots can work in close proximity without safety barriers. This project develops AI-driven motion acquisition and task execution algorithms for collaborative robots (cobots), contributing to next-generation shipyards that flexibly adapt to complex and diverse shipbuilding processes.

We combine imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and foundation models such as Large Language Models and Vision-Language Models to study frameworks by which robots acquire skills while observing and understanding human work. The goal is to implement general-purpose cobots that can safely cooperate with on-site workers while handling tasks in the long tail of the distribution.