Artificial Intelligence and Robotics research at is primarily focused on Applied Soft Computing, with contributions to the fields of Intelligent Speech and Natural Language Processing, Intelligent System Modelling, Simulation and Controls, Data Mining and Self Rule Generation, Artificial Intelligence, Databases and Aspect Oriented Programming, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems, and Robot Design, Planning, and Learning. RICE lab has developed two working robots indigenously and plans to develop an automatic assembly line robotic system.