The Laboratory for Learning Evaluation and Naturalization of Systems, founded by Ransalu Senanayake, an assistant professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Fulton Schools, focuses on forging technologies designed to help people overcome some of the most prevalent and pressing problems affecting their lives. That’s the motivation for the creation of a robotic canine, or robodog, and developing new artificial intelligence systems to guide robodogs in fulfilling various missions to serve people. The overall goal is combining deep learning technologies to enable the robots to understand their surroundings and communicate with people — especially visually impaired people who could benefit significantly from a robodog companion.

See also: Robotic Dogs: Pioneering AI for Real-World Solutions at ASU on the Entech website.