Oliver Kroemer
Associate Professor
Studies robot learning for manipulation, including skill learning and multimodal sensing.
Oliver Kroemer's lab at CMU works on manipulation & robot learning, robot perception & SLAM and vision-language & multimodal. 17 papers since 2023, 8 at top venues, mostly ICRA and RA-L. 3 PhD students and 2 master's students. 21 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 4/ year
- at T1 venues
- 47%
- PhD students
- 3
- MS students
- 2
- alumni listed
- 21
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 9 papers2025 · T1 5
- 5 papers2024 · T1 2
- 3 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, RA-L, IROS, CoRL
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning8 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM2 papers
- Vision-language & multimodal0 papers
- multimodal sensing0 papers
- studies robot0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20259 papers
- IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid RobotsAudio-Visual Contact Classification for Tree Structures in Agriculture
- ICRA (T1)Autonomous Sensor Exchange and Calibration for Cornstalk Nitrate Monitoring Robot
- ICRA (T1)Cascaded Diffusion Models for Neural Motion Planning
- CoRL (T1)GraphEQA: Using 3D Semantic Scene Graphs for Real-time Embodied Question Answering
- IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid RobotsGrounded Task Axes: Zero-Shot Semantic Skill Generalization Via Task-Axis Controllers and Visual Foundation Models
- Robotics: Science \& SystemsOptimal Interactive Learning on the Job via Facility Location Planning
- IROS (T1)RecoveryChaining: Learning Local Recovery Policies for Robust Manipulation
- RA-LSonicBoom: Contact Localization Using Array of Microphones (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Vibrotactile Sensing for Detecting Misalignments in Precision Manufacturing (opens in a new tab)
20245 papers
- RA-LDELTAHANDS: A Synergistic Dexterous Hand Framework Based on Delta Robots (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LEnhancing Dexterity in Robotic Manipulation via Hierarchical Contact Exploration (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Estimating Material Properties of Interacting Objects Using Sum-GP-UCB
- RA-LTowards Autonomous Crop Monitoring: Inserting Sensors in Cluttered Environments
- ICRA (T1)Towards robotic tree manipulation: Leveraging graph representations
20233 papers
- Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and AutomationEfficient Recovery Learning using Model Predictive Meta-Reasoning
- ICRA (T1)Linear Delta Arrays for Compliant Dexterous Distributed Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of (CoRL) Conference on Robot LearningSCALE: Causal Learning and Discovery of Robot Manipulation Skills using Simulation
Where alumni went21 listed, 0% to industry
Industry 0Academia 9
Also to
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Georgia Tech
- Mila
Apply to CMUFall 2027
CMU SCS Computer Science PhD
- Round
- Single round
- Opens
- GRE
- See program page
- English
- TOEFL / IELTS / Duolingo (F-1/J-1 non-native speakers)
- Fee
- USD 100 (USD 80 by early deadline)
Confirmed on the program page.
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