Robotic Assisted Locomotion (RAL) Lab (CDM-006)
Summary 🟡 ~
- Owner Unit: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
- Sub-unit: School of Computing
- Content Type: center
- Campus/Location: Loop
- Last Verified: July 1, 2026
Description & capabilities
Assistive robotics research involving embedded systems, controls, and user-facing validation. The RAL Lab is the research group of Muhammad Umer Huzaifa, developing robot devices (legged robots, exoskeletons) to help people with limited mobility regain freedom of movement.
Access status
- Level: yellow (
Negotiated Access) - Rationale: RAL Lab is a faculty research group (Huzaifa) recruiting student researchers by email; no published facility hours or open-access rules for assistive-robotics equipment.
- Access URL: www.depaul.edu/academics/programs/bs-in-robotics
- Contact name: Muhammad Umer Huzaifa
- Contact email: mhuzaifa@depaul.edu
- Verification date: 2026-07-01
- Source URLs:
- www.depaul.edu/academics/programs/bs-in-robotics
- facweb.cdm.depaul.edu/mhuzaifa/about
Verification
- Status: likely (
~) - Confidence: 82/100
- Rationale: Legacy evidence aligned with kernel provenance (depaul/XTR-000073); primary source: https://www.depaul.edu/academics/programs/bs-in-robotics
- Last verified: 2026-07-01
- Evidence:
- CDM is home to several specialized research labs, including the Robotic Assisted Locomotion (RAL) Lab — developing robot devices to help people with limited mobility regain freedom of movement. (https://www.depaul.edu/academics/programs/bs-in-robotics)
- Supplementary lab reference: https://facweb.cdm.depaul.edu/mhuzaifa/about/
Equipment
Find this resource from the Equipment catalog or site search (e.g. “3D printers”, “laser cutter”, “NMR”).
| Category | Specific equipment |
|---|---|
| Mobile and legged robots | Assistive locomotion robotic prototypes (research platforms) |
| Electronics benches and prototyping | Embedded systems development and user-testing apparatus |
Equipment access (via linked resources)
| Resource | Notes |
|---|---|
| CSH-023 | OT apartment / motor gym / transfer training — related rehab and user-testing adjacency (capability bridge; not a documented collaboration) |
Source: CDM resource map (May 2026); lab-specific inventory not publicly listed. Last verified: July 29, 2026.
Contacts (resource-level)
- Website: Umer Huzaifa — RAL Lab
- Email: Umer Huzaifa
Last verified: June 14, 2026.
People & contacts
Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.
- Muhammad Umer Huzaifa (Faculty lead) — mhuzaifa@depaul.edu · Profile
Source URL
Official links and email are listed under Contacts above.
Documented Relationships
Faculty lead Muhammad Umer Huzaifa (PER-007). Funded in part by AGIF grant GRA-913 ("Assisted Locomotion Laboratory"). Related OT mobility / transfer-training capability (not a documented collaboration): CSH-023.
Linked Relationship IDs
Notes
Faculty-lead correction (2026-06-14): the RAL Lab is the research group of Muhammad Umer Huzaifa (PER-007), per his CDM faculty page and the DePaul BS-in-Robotics page. The page previously named Jay Cunningham, who in fact directs the separate RAISE Lab (Responsible AI Systems & Societal Experiences) — preserved as a candidate for a future resource page. Source: packet 2026-06-14-hard-tech-candidate-web-discovery.