CEAT Discovery Day
iHuman Lab

Where Humans and Machines Learn to Work Together

2026-06-01

Who Are We?

We build technology that understands you.

Not just your commands — your attention, your stress, even your mistakes before they happen.

Brain · AI · Robotics — working together.

10+
Researchers
30+
Publications
4
Research Areas
6+
Active Projects

What If a Robot Could Read Your Mind?

A headset — but instead of music, it reads your brainwaves.

  • Stressed? → Robot slows down.
  • Overwhelmed? → Robot takes over.
  • Zoning out? → Robot asks for attention.

The robot adapts to you. Not the other way around.

What Do Your Eyes Reveal?

In 200 milliseconds, your eyes reveal exactly what you’re thinking.

Experts see differently — a surgeon’s gaze, a pilot’s scan, a drone operator’s focus.

We recorded those eye movements and trained AI to copy them exactly.

Now the AI sees like the best human in the room.

Could You Control 50 Drones at Once?

Disaster strikes. One person. 50 drones. No room for error.

What happens to your brain under that pressure?

We track brain signals in real time to find out — and build AI that steps in before you hit your limit.

Because in a rescue mission, hesitation costs lives.

Could You Control a Robot on the Moon?

Your signal takes 1.3 seconds to reach the Moon.

That’s 1.3 seconds your robot is completely on its own.

We build robots smart enough to survive that gap — and study how humans stay in control when the stakes are this high.

You on Earth. Robot on the Moon. One team.

Real Impact

Search & Rescue
Find survivors faster when every second counts
Manufacturing
Robots that work with you, not instead of you
Aviation Safety
AI that learns from decades of accident reports
Healthcare
Tech that adapts to patients, not the other way around

Smarter Machines·Safer Humans·Better World

This Could Be You

Every researcher in this lab was once sitting where you are. If any of this sparked something — come talk to us.

Questions?

hemanth.manjunatha@okstate.edu