Rika Antonova
Associate Professor
Leads the CamRAL lab on agentic exploration and algorithm discovery, reinforcement learning, global optimisation and the co-design of robot hardware and control policies.
Rika Antonova's lab at Cambridge works on planning, control & multi-robot systems and reinforcement learning. 13 papers since 2023, 1 at top venues, mostly Nature Communications. 6 PhD students and 1 master's student. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 8%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- —
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 5 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 2 papers2025 · T1 0
- 3 papers2024 · T1 0
- 3 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: Nature Communications
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems3 papers
- Reinforcement learning3 papers
- exploration1 paper
- global0 papers
- algorithm0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20265 papers
- Accepted to the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)Combating the Memory Walls: Optimization Pathways for Long-Context Agentic LLM Inference
- Nature Communications (T1)Compositional Neurosymbolic Representations Enable Efficient Active Exploration
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)DOT-Sim: Differentiable Optical Tactile Simulation with Precise Real-to-Sim Physical Calibration
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)HoMeR: Learning In-the-Wild Mobile Manipulation via Hybrid Imitation and Whole-Body Control
- Accepted to the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)KernelCraft: Benchmarking for Agentic Close-to-Metal Kernel Generation on Emerging Hardware
20252 papers
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)CUPID: Curating Data your Robot Loves with Influence Functions
- Championship Branch Prediction (CBP2025) at the International Symposium on Computer ArchitecturePIP: An Ensemble of Programming-Idiom Predictors
20243 papers
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)EquiBot: SIM(3)-Equivariant Diffusion Policy for Generalizable and Data Efficient Learning
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)EquivAct: SIM(3)-Equivariant Visuomotor Policies beyond Rigid Object Manipulation
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)Unpacking Failure Modes of Generative Policies: Runtime Monitoring of Consistency and Progress
20233 papers
- IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)In-Hand Manipulation of Unknown Objects with Tactile Sensing for Insertion
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)Learning Tool Morphology for Contact-Rich Manipulation Tasks with Differentiable Simulation
- IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), . Journal version published in Autonomous RobotsTidyBot: Personalized Robot Assistance with Large Language Models
Where alumni went
Alumni are not listed on the lab homepage.
Apply to CambridgeMichaelmas 2027
PhD in Computer Science
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