• Welcome to
    Urban Robotics Lab.

    Robotics for Smart Cities: Our lab focuses on the research and development of Robotics Technologies for Smart Cities.

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  • Welcome to
    Urban Robotics Lab.

    Robotics for Smart Cities: Our lab focuses on the research and development of Robotics Technologies for Smart Cities.

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  • Future Robotics

    Robots that will make our lives better!

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  • Simultaneous Localization & Mapping

    Accurate localization and mapping for seamless robot navigation.

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  • Autonomous Navigation for Various Robots

    Our lab develops autonomous navigation for various robot platforms
    (DreamWaQ and CAROS-H featured in CNN)

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Simultaneous Localization & Mapping

Accurate localization and mapping for seamless robot navigation.

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Machine Learning & AI

New possibilities with Neural Networks.

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Future Robotics

Robots that will make our lives better.

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Recent Announcement

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[2026 Spring] Early Intern Recruiting #3

[KOR]명현 교수님 연구실에서 봄 조기 인턴을 모집합니다.인턴 기간: 2026년 4월 ~ 상반기까지 (8월 예상)지원 자격: 학부 재학생 (자대/타대 무관)모집 인원: 1명신청 기한: ~4/9 까지지원 방법:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QJfYl1Ne3ir4l920CtMeKafDOW9NgTcAO4F1z-FHseE/edit?usp=sharing의 [지원 링크] 를 통해 구글폼 작성                   KAIST URL(전기 및 전자공학부 명현 교수님)에서 함께할 학부 인턴을 모집합니다.학부 인턴은 연구실 내에서 진행되고 있는 프로젝트에 배정되어 활동을 하게 될 예정입니다.저희 연구실로 박사 및 석사과정 진학을 희망하신다면, 인턴 활동을 먼저 경험하시길 권장합니다.Q&A: intern@urobot.kaist.ac.kr=====================[ENG]2026 Spring Early Intern Recruiting in Urban Robotics Lab.Period of activity: from April to August (tentative)Qualification: UndergraduateNumbers: 1 memberApplication Deadline: ~ April 9 (Thursday)How to apply: Please submit your application through the Google Form using the [Apply link] in the document below.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QJfYl1Ne3ir4l920CtMeKafDOW9NgTcAO4F1z-FHseE/edit?usp=sharingKAIST Urban Robotics Lab is recruiting undergraduate interns to join us in the Winter~Summer.Undergraduate internships will be conducted in a way that interns will be assigned to one of the Lab projects.If you want to go on to a doctor or master's candidates in our lab, we recommend that you experience the internship first.Q&A: intern@urobot.kaist.ac.kr
Mar,09,2026

[2026 Spring] Early Intern Recruiting #2 (expired)

[KOR] 명현 교수님 연구실에서 봄 조기 인턴을 모집합니다. 인턴 기간: 2026년 3월 - 협의  지원 자격: 학부 재학생 (자대/타대 무관)모집 인원: 1명신청 기한: ~3/2 까지지원 방법: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BhVY7XVTzXLn3fd2XSGEFHzdAaW7qK1_qYwj6km73D8/edit?usp=sharing의 [지원 링크] 를 통해 구글폼 작성                   KAIST URL(전기 및 전자공학부 명현 교수님)에서 함께할 학부 인턴을 모집합니다.학부 인턴은 연구실 내에서 진행되고 있는 프로젝트에 배정되어 활동을 하게 될 예정입니다.저희 연구실로 박사 및 석사과정 진학을 희망하신다면, 인턴 활동을 먼저 경험하시길 권장합니다.Q&A: intern@urobot.kaist.ac.kr ===================== [ENG] 2026 Spring Early Intern Recruiting in Urban Robotics Lab. Period of activity: Starting in March, with the end date to be discussed Qualification: UndergraduateNumbers: 1 membersApplication Deadline: ~3/2 (Monday)How to apply: Please write an application through the google form https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BhVY7XVTzXLn3fd2XSGEFHzdAaW7qK1_qYwj6km73D8/edit?usp=sharingKAIST Urban Robotics Lab is recruiting undergraduate interns to join us in the Winter~Summer.Undergraduate internships will be conducted in a way that interns will be assigned to one of the Lab projects.If you want to go on to a doctor or master's candidates in our lab, we recommend that you experience the internship first.Q&A: intern@urobot.kaist.ac.kr
Feb,09,2026

[2026 Spring] Early Intern Recruiting (expired)

[KOR] 명현 교수님 연구실에서 봄 조기 인턴을 모집합니다. 인턴 기간: 2026년 1월 - 6월 (6개월) 지원 자격: 학부 재학생 (자대/타대 무관)모집 인원: 2명신청 기한: 12/31 까지지원 방법: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KJUCnsnbzOPxyD6eO0a36LoNmNiIR4ovGaK_LKD7gks/edit?tab=t.0의 [지원 링크] 를 통해 구글폼 작성                   KAIST URL(전기 및 전자공학부 명현 교수님)에서 25년 겨울~26년 봄 함께할 학부 인턴을 모집합니다.학부 인턴은 연구실 내에서 진행되고 있는 프로젝트에 배정되어 활동을 하게 될 예정입니다.저희 연구실로 박사 및 석사과정 진학을 희망하신다면, 인턴 활동을 먼저 경험하시길 권장합니다.Q&A: intern@urobot.kaist.ac.kr ===================== [ENG] 2025 Winter-Spring Semester Intern Recruiting in Urban Robotics Lab. Period of activity: 2026 January ~ JuneQualification: UndergraduateNumbers: 2 membersApplication Deadline: ~12/31 (Wed)How to apply: Please write an application through the google form https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KJUCnsnbzOPxyD6eO0a36LoNmNiIR4ovGaK_LKD7gks/edit?tab=t.0KAIST Urban Robotics Lab is recruiting undergraduate interns to join us in the Winter~Summer.Undergraduate internships will be conducted in a way that interns will be assigned to one of the Lab projects.If you want to go on to a doctor or master's candidates in our lab, we recommend that you experience the internship first.Q&A: intern@urobot.kaist.ac.kr
Dec,16,2025

Recent Publications

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CVPR'26 acceptance

The following two papers were accepted to CVPR'26. "VIRD: View-Invariant Representation through Dual-Axis Transformation for Cross-View Pose Estimation," by Juhye Park, Wooju Lee, Dasol Hong, Changki Sung, Youngwoo Seo, DongWan Kang, and Hyun Myung "E2EGS: Event-to-Edge Gaussian Splatting for Pose-Free 3D Reconstruction," by Yunsoo Kim, Changki Sung, Dasol Hong, and Hyun Myung
Mar,03,2026

ICRA'26 acceptance

Five papers have been accepted to ICRA'26, although this year's acceptance rate is much tougher! (38.04%) Jiwon Park, Dongkyu Lee, I Made Aswin Nahrendra, Jaeyoung Lim, Hyun Myung, "DreamFlow: Local Navigation Beyond Observation via Conditional Flow Matching in the Latent Space" Seonghyeon Lim, Seunghyun Lee, Hyeonwoo Lee, I Made Aswin Nahrendra, Hyun Myung, "OpenHEART: Opening Heterogeneous Articulated Objects with a Legged Manipulator" Gunhee Shin, Seungjae Lee, Jei Kong, Young-Woo Seo, Hyun Myung, "Smooth IMU Propagation With Jointly Distributed Poses on SE(3) Manifold for Accurate and Robust LiDAR-Inertial Odometry" Jinwoo Jeon, Dong-Uk Seo, Eungchang Mason Lee, Hyun Myung, "AIM-SLAM: Dense Monocular SLAM via Adaptive and Informative Multi-View Keyframe Prioritization with Foundation Model" Taeyun Kim, Alvin Jinsung Choi, Dasol Hong, Hyun Myung, "CLUE: Adaptively Prioritized Contextual Cues by Leveraging a Unified Semantic Map for Effective Zero-Shot Object-Goal Navigation" Along with these, one RA-L paper will also be presented at ICRA'26: Kevin Christiansen Marsim, Minho Oh, Byeongho Yu, Seungjae Lee, I Made Aswin Nahrendra, Hyungtae Lim, and Hyun Myung, "LVI-Q: Robust LiDAR-Visual-Inertial-Kinematic Odometry for Quadruped Robots Using Tightly-Coupled and Efficient Alternating Optimization," IEEE RA-L (Robotics and Automation Letters), vol.10, no.10, pp.10050-10057, Oct. 2025.
Feb,03,2026

[Journal acceptance] RA-L

Seoyeon Jang, Alex Lee, I Made Aswin Nahrendra, and Hyun Myung†, "Chamelion : Reliable Change Detection for Long-Term LiDAR Mapping in Transient Environments," accepted to IEEE RA-L (Robotics and Automation Letters), Jan. 2026.  
Jan,27,2026

Media Release

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[국민일보] 시사 뉴스 (Feb. 04, 2026)

Our team appreared in KUKMINILBO (국민일보) on Feb. 04, 2026. [출처] 국민일보 | “中처럼 투자 했다면… 한국도 로봇 양산 단계 진입했을 것”
Feb,20,2026

AI Summit Seoul @ EXPO

Prof. Myung delivered a keynote at AI Summit Seoul @ EXPO, held in COEX, Nov. 11, 2025. ZD Net | "가상에서 현실로, 공간 배우는 로봇의 진화"
Nov,17,2025

[KMatriX] Multiway registration framework for spatiotemporal environments

Multiway registration framework for spatiotemporal environments Prof. Hyun Myung’s research team developed a change-robust multiway registration pipeline, winning 1st place at NSS Challenge 2025. Figure. Example of final refinement process using change detection algorithm, Chamelion. Source: KMatriX
Nov,01,2025

Recent Youtube

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LODESTAR (RA-L, 2025)

Dec,01,2025

Multi-Mapcher (T-IV, 2025)

Dec,01,2025

ActiveGrounder (Humanoids'25 WS)

Dec,01,2025

Lab Introduction (Kor / Eng)

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