Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
AI and Robotics for Infrastructure Systems Lab (AIRIS)
Led by Shuai Li · Civil and Coastal Engineering
What we study
The lab uses AI and robotics to improve infrastructure, construction, and urban environments. They build robots, AI models, and digital twins for real-world applications.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Building & testing
- Coding required
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 4
Current projects
Construction humanoids
Develops humanoid robots that could carry out tasks on construction sites, combining robotics with AI.
AI agents for construction enterprises
Builds AI agents that help construction companies with their business work, as part of the lab's AI for infrastructure and construction.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Understanding the Impact of Teleoperation Technology on the Construction Industry: Adoption Dynamics, Workforce Perception, and the Role of Broader Workforce Participation
2025 · Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Looks at how teleoperation technology is adopted in construction and affects workers.
- Theory and practice of energy-focused fracturing development technology
2025 · Petroleum Exploration and Development
Develops a new fracturing method to better control energy in oil wells.
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- Learning to Incentivize: LLM-Empowered Contract for AIGC Offloading in Teleoperation
2025 · IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
Designs a way for AI service providers to get paid fairly when they can't be directly observed.
- Research on composite scale inhibitors for inhibiting calcium carbonate scaling in high temperature geothermal fluid
2025 · Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering
Plain-language summaries are AI-written and reviewed by us; check the paper for details.
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