OzU Robotics Laboratory is home to cutting-edge faculty research in robotics, ambitious engineering student designs for national and international robot competitions, and engaged learning for all students who like robots.

Our three faculty members Prof. Erhan Öztop, Assist. Prof. Özkan Bebek lead TUBITAK and European Union funded research projects mainly in the fields of machine learning, medical robotics, and exoskeletons.

The fields that we are currently engaged in are:

Medical Robotics Robotic

• Assisted Beating Heart Surgery
• Robotic System for Small Animal Biopsies

Control Topics

• Heart Motion Prediction
• Motion detection for efficient lighting systems

Cognitive Robotics

• Developmental Robotics
• Cognitive Intelligent Robotics
• Computational Modeling of Brain functions

Humanoid Robotics

• Human-robot Co-adaption and Shared Control
• Human-in-the-loop Robot Learning
• Balance Control and Exo-skeleton Development
• Dexterous Manipulation

Mobile Smart Machines

• Autonomous Flight
• Autonomous Traversal