Edward Johns
Associate Professor of Robot Learning
Directs the Robot Learning Lab, developing imitation learning and vision-based manipulation for robots in everyday environments.
Edward Johns's lab at Imperial works on manipulation & robot learning and robot perception & SLAM. 16 papers since 2023, 13 at top venues, mostly ICRA and CoRL. 9 PhD students. 3 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 4/ year
- at T1 venues
- 81%
- PhD students
- 9
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 3
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 5 papers2025 · T1 5
- 8 papers2024 · T1 6
- 3 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, CoRL, ICLR, IROS, NeurIPS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning9 papers
- imitation learning6 papers
- imitation6 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM1 paper
- vision-based0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20255 papers
- ICLR (T1)Instant Policy: In-Context Imitation Learning via Graph Diffusion
- Science Robotics (T1)Learning a Thousand Tasks in a Day
- NeurIPS (T1)Neural Stochastic Flows: Solver-Free Modelling and Inference for SDE Solutions
- ICRA (T1)One-Shot Dual-Arm Imitation Learning
- ICRA (T1)R+X: Retrieval and Execution from Everyday Human Videos
20248 papers
- IROS (T1)Adapting Skills to Novel Grasps: A Self-Supervised Approach
- ICRA (T1)DINOBot: Robot Manipulation via Retrieval and Alignment with Vision Foundation Models
- ICRA (T1)Dream2Real: Zero-Shot 3D Object Rearrangement with Vision-Language Models
- RSS (T1)Keypoint Action Tokens Enable In-Context Imitation Learning in Robotics
- RA-LettersLanguage Models as Zero-Shot Trajectory Generators
- CoRL (T1)MILES: Making Imitation Learning Easy with Self-Supervision
- RA-LettersOn the Effectiveness of Retrieval, Alignment, and Replay in Manipulation
- TMLR (T1)Prismer: A Vision-Language Model with Multi-Task Experts
20233 papers
- RA-LettersDALL-E-Bot: Introducing Web-Scale Diffusion Models to Robotics
- CoRL (T1)Few-Shot In-Context Imitation Learning via Implicit Graph Alignment
- CoRL (T1)One-Shot Imitation Learning: A Pose Estimation Perspective
Where alumni went3 listed
Apply to Imperial2027 (Apr/Oct)
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