RoMeLa I is a 1,074 sq. ft. a state-of-the-art robotics research facility for graduate and undergraduate research and education with an emphasis on studying mobile robot locomotion.

This laboratory has an office space area with desks and workstations, a conference room with modular furniture, a computer projector, a teleconferencing system for meetings, a library of technical journals/publications, and a kitchenette. The flexible conference room can be reorganized to perform larger scale experiments when RoMeLa II is unavailable; similar to RoMeLa II, it has 2 large white walls with grids on them for recording and measuring the motion of robots, and a modular lighting system with dimmers for controlling the lighting condition for robot vision systems.