Welcome to the TEA Lab

Welcome to the Thinking Embodied Agents (TEA) Lab at Virginia Tech! We are a research group focused on developing efficient and adaptive autonomous systems that can operate in complex, real-world environments. Our work lies at the intersection of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and robotics, with a focus on hybrid models that combine the expressiveness of neural networks with symbolic reasoning.

Hokies

News

Latest Updates

  • [August 2025] TEA Lab will start at Virginia Tech!
  • [June 2025] We received one of two best-paper awards a the “Workshop on Nonverbal Cues for Human-Robot Cooperative Intelligence at ICRA 2025” for our work on “Let Me Help You! Neuro-Symbolic Short-Context Action Anticipation”

Robots

People

Our lab brings together researchers from diverse backgrounds in robotics, machine learning, and formal methods. We are always looking for motivated students and researchers to join our team!

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