The 77 Lab - Agricultural Robotics
MIT's agricultural robotics lab focuses on developing robotic systems that interact with delicate crops, including sugarcane planting automation. The lab conducts research, development, manufacturing, and deployment of appropriate agricultural robotic technologies.
Notable achievements
Delicate crop handling systems, sugarcane planting robotics
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
A hierarchical approach to imitation learning for manipulation tasks requiring time varying forces
Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
Branch pruning alignment using small form factor monocular time-of-flight sensors
Luke Strohbehn, Cindy Grimm
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
VLAConf: Calibrated Task-Success Confidence for Vision-Language-Action Models
Dehao Huang, Aoxiang Gu, Chengjie Zhang +5 more
2026
Human-in-the-Loop Swarms: A Bionic Swarm Approach to Real-World Soil Mapping
Petras Swissler, Mohammadali Rashidioun, Nicholas Sahu +3 more
2026
How VLAs Fail Differently: Black-Box Action Monitoring Reveals Architecture-Specific Failure Signatures
Krishnam Gupta
2026
What Frozen VLAs Already Know About Success: A Probing Study of Value-Like Structure in Foundation Robot Policies
Jiachen Zhang, Junnan Nie, Junyi Lao +4 more
2026