Lerrel Pinto
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Studies robot learning for manipulation, including learning from human demonstrations and home robots that generalize to new environments.
Lerrel Pinto's lab at NYU works on manipulation & robot learning. 24 papers since 2023, 23 at top venues, mostly ICRA and ICML. 5 PhD students and 5 master's students. 48 alumni, most often to a stealth robotics startup and Google DeepMind. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 6/ year
- at T1 venues
- 96%
- PhD students
- 5
- MS students
- 5
- alumni listed
- 48
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 6 papers2025 · T1 6
- 10 papers2024 · T1 9
- 8 papers2023 · T1 8
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, ICML, CoRL, NeurIPS, RSS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning12 papers
- home1 paper
- environments1 paper
- generalize0 papers
- studies robot0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20256 papers
- ICRA (T1)AnySkin: Plug-and-play Skin Sensing for Robotic Touch (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Bridging the Human to Robot Dexterity Gap through Object-Oriented Rewards (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)DynaMem: Online Dynamic Spatio-Semantic Memory for Open World Mobile Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)P3-PO: Prescriptive Point Priors for Visuo-Spatial Generalization of Robot Policies (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Robot Utility Models: General Policies for Zero-Shot Deployment in New Environments (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Training Language Models on Synthetic Edit Sequences Improves Code Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
202410 papers
- ICML (T1)Adaptive Sampling of k-space in Magnetic Resonance for Rapid Pathology Prediction (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)BAKU: An Efficient Transformer for Multi-Task Policy Learning (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)diff History for Neural Language Agents (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)DynaMo: In-Domain Dynamics Pretraining for Visuo-Motor Control (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Hierarchical State Space Models for Continuous Sequence-to-Sequence Modeling (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)OK-Robot: What Really Matters in Integrating Open-Knowledge Models for Robotics (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA EXPOOn Bringing Robots Home (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)OPEN TEACH: A Versatile Teleoperation System for Robotic Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)See to Touch: Learning Tactile Dexterity through Visual Incentives (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)VQ-BeT: Behavior Generation with Latent Actions (opens in a new tab)
20238 papers
- RSS (T1)CLIP-Fields: Weakly Supervised Semantic Fields for Robotic Memory (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Dexterity from Touch: Self-Supervised Pre-Training of Tactile Representations with Robotic Play (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Dexterous Imitation Made Easy: A Learning-Based Framework for Efficient Dexterous Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)From play to policy: Conditional behavior generation from uncurated robot data (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Holo-Dex: Teaching Dexterity with Immersive Mixed Reality (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)NetHack is Hard to Hack (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)Teach a Robot to FISH: Versatile Imitation from One Minute of Demonstrations (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)That Sounds Right: Auditory Self-Supervision for Dynamic Robot Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went48 listed, 9% to industry
Industry 2Academia 21
Most often to
- a stealth robotics startup
- Google DeepMind
Also to
- Carnegie Mellon University
- MIT
- Georgia Tech
Apply to NYUFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (Courant / Tandon)
- Round
- Single round (December)
- Opens
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- English
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Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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