About CITR

The Center for Intelligent Team Robotics and Human–Machine Collaboration integrates cross-disciplinary research and development capabilities, focusing on smart healthcare and smart manufacturing, and promotes key technologies, field validation, and industrial applications.

The Center was established to address major societal challenges, including declining birth rates, population aging, labor shortages, and industrial digital transformation. Its mission is to develop intelligent team robots that can safely coexist, collaborate, and interact with people. Guided by a human-centered philosophy, the Center advances technological innovation while safeguarding safety, privacy, ethics, trust, and regulatory compliance. Through interdisciplinary research, international collaboration, talent development, and industry partnerships, it seeks to strengthen Taiwan’s technological autonomy in robotics, accelerate industrial upgrading, and contribute to an inclusive and sustainable intelligent society.

The Center aims to develop highly intelligent, modular, and scalable team robotic systems by integrating AI-driven decision-making, 5G/6G communications, AI-RAN, multimodal sensing, digital twins, bio-inspired actuation, and the Internet of Robotic Things. Its objectives include establishing standardized testing and safety-validation platforms, developing multi-robot collaboration and intelligent scheduling technologies, creating human-robot interaction and explainable AI systems, and conducting field demonstrations in healthcare and flexible manufacturing. The Center also promotes technology transfer, industry-academia collaboration, interdisciplinary talent cultivation, and international research partnerships, with the long-term goal of becoming a globally influential robotics research hub.

The Center is distinguished by its vision of “robots as team members.” Its research extends beyond the functions of individual robots to emphasize coordinated perception, decision-making, and action among people, robots, intelligent devices, and operational environments. Seven integrated research programs cover field management and standardized validation, healthcare applications, smart manufacturing, digital twins, collaborative decision-making and control, bio-inspired actuation, and the Internet of Robotic Things. Supported by interdisciplinary teams, clinical and manufacturing testbeds, and extensive academic and industry partnerships, the Center offers an integrated pathway from technology development and system integration to simulation, validation, and real-world deployment.