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The University of Texas at Austin

University lab · Research lab · Austin, Texas

The University of Texas at Austin is a public university in Austin, Texas, founded in 1883 and one of the institutions of The University of Texas System. Its AI research groups include the Robot Perception and Learning (RPL) Lab, which works on robot learning and embodied AI and publishes research code in its GitHub organization.1345Fact reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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Public institution

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Legal form
Public university and an institution of The University of Texas System, which describes itself as a public university system.132
Headquarters
Austin, Texas1
Founded
18831
Sectors
Research

What is and isn’t public

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This catalog assesses openness per artifact and has no UT Austin artifact record yet. AMAGO, published in the RPL lab's GitHub organization, is released under the MIT License.76Fact reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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Notable documented facts

  • The Robot Perception and Learning Lab at UT Austin studies methods that let robots perceive, reason about, and learn tasks in unstructured environments, and builds computational frameworks for embodied AI, drawing on robotics, machine learning, and computer vision.4
  • The lab's GitHub organization publishes code for its research, including AMAGO, a framework for off-policy reinforcement learning with long-term memory that is released under the MIT License, and deoxys_control, a real-time controller library for Franka Emika Panda robots.567

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Eligible · basis: U.S. nonprofit or lab

The University of Texas at Austin describes itself as a public university in Austin, Texas, and The University of Texas System, a public university system, lists it among its institutions.132

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Sources

  1. 1.
    About | University of Texas at Austin (external site: utexas.edu)

    The University of Texas at Austin · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  2. 2.
    About The University of Texas System (external site: utsystem.edu)

    The University of Texas System · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  3. 3.
    UT System Institutions (external site: utsystem.edu)

    The University of Texas System · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  4. 4.
    Robot Perception and Learning Lab (external site: ut-austin-rpl.github.io)

    Robot Perception and Learning Lab, UT Austin · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  5. 5.
    UT Robot Perception and Learning Lab (GitHub organization) (external site: github.com)

    Robot Perception and Learning Lab, UT Austin · Repository · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  6. 6.
    UT-Austin-RPL/amago (GitHub repository and README) (external site: github.com)

    Robot Perception and Learning Lab, UT Austin · Repository · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  7. 7.
    AMAGO LICENSE (MIT License) (external site: raw.githubusercontent.com)

    AMAGO contributors · License · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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