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Stars
Autonomy and supervision for orbital, aerial, and long-distance systems where human presence is limited.
*Stars and Sea
Physical World Intelligence
Intelligence for the stars, the sea, and everything remote.
Intelligent systems that explore, construct, transform, and restore remote physical environments, from oceans and orbit to harsh built infrastructure.
Explore mission systemsHuman-supervised autonomy
Research themes
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Sea
Persistent sensing and resilient physical action for ocean infrastructure, underwater operations, and coastal risk.
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Remote Earth
Systems that restore and maintain places people cannot safely reach or stay in for long.
Mission frame
03extreme environment domains
24/7persistent remote operation
10+research questions in autonomy and care
Missions
From remote exploration to physical restoration.
Modeled after Astro Lab's stacked dark sections, these cards map the Stars and Sea research direction into concrete system programs.
Ocean intelligence
Long-duration autonomy for sea-scale environments
Robotic systems that can map, monitor, and maintain offshore and underwater infrastructure while keeping human operators in strategic control.
Orbital systems
Mission interfaces for delayed, distant action
Interfaces and decision layers that help teams supervise assets where latency, risk, and environmental uncertainty shape every action.
Resilient field work
Physical intelligence where people cannot safely remain
Sensing, manipulation, and recovery loops for harsh sites, disaster zones, and remote built environments.
Research Papers
Questions that guide the page.
How should autonomous systems communicate uncertainty when people are supervising high-risk physical work?
What interfaces let experts command systems at mission level without hiding operational detail?
How can robots recover gracefully when field environments break assumptions?
Tech & Labs
System layers for harsh physical worlds.
Perception
Multimodal sensing for water, weather, terrain, and low-visibility physical environments.
Autonomy
Planning systems that adapt when communication is partial and the world changes faster than expected.
Supervision
Human-in-the-loop control surfaces for mission-level intent, override, and trust calibration.
Recovery
Fault-aware behavior for systems that need to continue safely after damage, drift, or uncertainty.
Stars and Sea