Ludovic Righetti
Glenn Y. Louie Professor
Leads the Machines in Motion Laboratory, working on optimal control and reinforcement learning for legged locomotion and manipulation.
Ludovic Righetti's lab at NYU works on legged locomotion & humanoids, planning, control & multi-robot systems and reinforcement learning. 17 papers since 2023, 11 at top venues, mostly ICRA and IROS. 8 PhD students and 1 master's student. 24 alumni, most often to Alquirst Robotics. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 4/ year
- at T1 venues
- 65%
- PhD students
- 8
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 24
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 0 papers2025 · T1 0
- 8 papers2024 · T1 4
- 9 papers2023 · T1 7
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, IROS, CoRL, ICLR, RA-L
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems7 papers
- Legged locomotion & humanoids5 papers
- Reinforcement learning5 papers
- optimal control0 papers
- optimal0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20248 papers
- IEEE SpectrumAI Missteps Could Unravel Global Peace and Security: To mitigate risks, developers need more training
- International Conference on Ubiquitous RobotsContactNet: Online Multi-Contact Planning for Acyclic Legged Robot Locomotion
- IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid RobotsDiffusion-based learning of contact plans for agile locomotion
- ICRA (T1)Force Feedback Model-Predictive Control Via Online Estimation
- IROS (T1)iDb-RRT: Sampling-based Kinodynamic Motion Planning with Motion Primitives and Trajectory Optimization
- ICRA (T1)Risk-Sensitive Extended Kalman Filter
- RA-LSafe Reinforcement Learning of Robot Trajectories in the Presence of Moving Obstacles
- CoRL (T1)SoloParkour: Constrained Reinforcement Learning for Visual Locomotion from Privileged Experience
20239 papers
- T-RO (T1)BiConMP: A Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Framework for Whole Body Motion Planning
- IROS (T1)Efficient Object Manipulation Planning with Monte Carlo Tree Search
- Proceedings of The Annual Learning for Dynamics and Control ConferenceLearning Locomotion Skills from MPC in Sensor Space
- ICLR (T1)Learning Simultaneous Navigation and Construction in Grid Worlds
- ICRA (T1)MPC with Sensor-Based Online Cost Adaptation
- Optimization and EngineeringNIPM-HLSP: An Efficient Interior-Point Method for Hierarchical Least-Squares Programs
- ICRA (T1)On the Use of Torque Measurement in Centroidal State Estimation
- ICRA (T1)Path Planning Under Uncertainty to Localize mmWave Sources
- ICRA (T1)Visual-Inertial and Leg Odometry Fusion for Dynamic Locomotion
Where alumni went24 listed, 14% to industry
Industry 1Academia 6
Most often to
- Alquirst Robotics
Also to
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Dartmouth College
- Delft University of Technology
Apply to NYUFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (Courant / Tandon)
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