The Barman Robotics initiative grows from a simple idea: when the tools we need don’t exist, we build them.
Under Dr. Ishan Barman’s leadership, our lab has always embraced the mindset that meaningful scientific progress often requires new instruments—not incremental patches on old ones. This robotics subgroup was created to push that philosophy further.
Rather than relying on commercial platforms or generic hardware, we design robots from the ground up to meet the demands of emerging scientific and technological frontiers. Whether in the air, underwater, or in off-world agricultural environments, our goal is to engineer systems purpose-built for the environments they must operate in.
Barman Robotics exists to explore new modes of motion, new forms of actuation, and new mechanical intelligence—expanding the kind of questions the lab can ask, and the kinds of experiments we can perform.