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ARIA Opportunity Space: Smarter Robot Bodies
AI for Autonomous Edge Intelligence
Today’s autonomous systems depend on cloud-based cognition, making them brittle, insecure, and inaccessible where connectivity is limited. Encode fellow Martyna Stachaczyk is working with Rika Antonova at the University of Cambridge to design a biologically inspired, on-device control architecture for real-time, local intelligence. This research could free intelligent systems from the cloud, enabling robust, adaptive autonomy for prosthetics, robots, and environmental platforms even in resource-constrained or disconnected settings.
Martyna holds a PhD in Engineering Science from Imperial College London. She works in advanced AI agent design and mechanistic interpretability and previously worked at the Leverhulme Center on embodied intelligence for human-AI alignment.
Rika Antonova is an Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge. Previously, she was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University upon receiving the NSF/CRA Computing Innovation Fellowship, and worked with the Interactive Perception and Robot Learning Lab headed by Jeannette Bohg.
