- Human-robot interaction/cooperation/collaboration
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence in industrial automation
- Intelligent industrial robotics
- Semiconductor manufacturing process optimization
- Digital twin and IOT in robotics and automation
- Inspection robotics
- Autonomous industrial mobile manipulation
- Nano-robotics: nanomanipulation and automated nanomanufacturing of nanosensors
- Wafer handling robotics in semiconductor manufacturing
- Construction and agriculture robotics