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Daniela Rus
MIT professor and director of CSAIL, known for soft robots, modular self-reconfiguring robots, and autonomous systems, and co-founder of Liquid AI.
MIT · United States
- Rank
- #1
- Score
- 82.4
- Citations
- 70,807
- h-index
- 131
- Robotics papers 2023–2025
- 59
Source: OpenAlex author record, as of 2026-10-19. How we rank
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About
Daniela Rus directs MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Her research covers soft robots, self-reconfiguring modular robots, and autonomous vehicles, and she co-founded Liquid AI.
Representative work
Selected highly cited papers, linked to their publisher or arXiv versions:
- Design, fabrication and control of soft robots (2015)
- Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robot Systems [Grand Challenges of Robotics] (2007)
- LIO-SAM: Tightly-coupled Lidar Inertial Odometry via Smoothing and Mapping (2020)
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Who is Daniela Rus?
Daniela Rus is an MIT professor and director of CSAIL, known for soft robots, modular self-reconfiguring robots, and autonomous systems, and co-founder of Liquid AI.