Welcome to AutoMan Research Lab @ NTU
AutoMan members, July 2025
(at Zezhong's PhD graduation ceremony)
The Automated Driving and Human-Machine System (AutoMan) Lab @ NTU has a wide range of research activities covering human-centric multi-modal robotics, embodied AI, physical AI, world model, human-AI hybrid intelligence, and cyber-physical systems, with particular applications to advanced vehicles and multi-modal robotics.
Our AutoMan group is exploring
Scientific automation mechanisms to better understand humans.
Smarter autonomous robotics to guide and assist humans.
Safer automated vehicles to better serve humans.
Smoother automation to interact with humans.
Sustainable automobiles for humans.
These are what AutoMan stands for!
Dr. Chen Lv (吕辰)
Associate Professor
Director, AutoMan Research Lab
Research Director, Vice President Research Office
Director, MSc in Robotics and Intelligent Systems
Thrust Lead in AI, Continental-NTU Corp Lab
Cluster Director in Future Mobility Solutions, ERI@N
E: lyuchen@ntu.edu.sg
Recent AutoMan News
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Wenhui received the Vehicles 2025 Best PhD Thesis Award. Congrats!
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We won Championship of the world’s first multicar autonomous race at Imola, Italy!!! Cheers!
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Chen received the IEEE ITSS 2026 Young Researcher Award.
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Yiming joined as visiting student. Welcome!
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Our humanoid IRIS performed at NTU 2026 PhD conferment ceremony. Kudos to Yuxin and Yujie!
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Baichuan, Yanxin, Lin Yang, and Yuxin successfully defended their PhD these! Congrats!
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Helong, Haoran, Gutian, and Minghao joined in August 2026 as phd students! Welcome!
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Our recent work AutoMoT got accepted to ICML'26. Cheers!
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Zirui received the prestigious AI4X Fellowship. Congrats!
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Bowen and Zhouheng joined as visiting students. Welcome!
Research Highlights
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Check out our latest work on robot harness: RoboFoundary
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Haohan's work on humna-guided continual learning for AVs got accepted to Nature Communications.
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Check out our latest work on unified transportation foundation model: UniVTL
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