Roberto Martín-Martín
Assistant Professor
Works at the intersection of robotics, computer vision and machine learning on interactive perception and mobile manipulation in human environments.
Roberto Martín-Martín's lab at UT Austin works on robot perception & SLAM and manipulation & robot learning. 35 papers since 2023, 30 at top venues, mostly ICRA and RSS. 11 PhD students. 9 alumni, most often to Senior Robotics Engineer at Dexmate. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 9/ year
- at T1 venues
- 86%
- PhD students
- 11
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 9
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 12 papers2026 · T1 10 · collecting
- 7 papers2025 · T1 5
- 10 papers2024 · T1 9
- 6 papers2023 · T1 6
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, RSS, CoRL, ICLR, IROS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning27 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM11 papers
- mobile manipulation6 papers
- environments2 papers
- intersection0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202612 papers
- ICRA (T1)CAVER: Curious Audiovisual Exploring Robot
- ICLR (T1)DataMIL: Selecting Data for Robot Imitation Learning with Datamodels
- ICRA (T1)Mash, Spread, Slice! Learning to Manipulate Object States via Visual Spatial Progress
- RSS (T1)Memory Retrieval in Visuomotor Policies for Long‑Horizon Robot Control
- ICRA (T1)MimicDroid: In-Context Learning for Humanoid Robot Manipulation from Human Play Videos
- ICRA (T1)Mixed-Initiative Dialog for Human-Robot Collaborative Manipulation
- ICLR (T1)MoMaGen: Generating Demonstrations under Soft and Hard Constraints for Multi-Step Bimanual Mobile Manipulation
- RSS (T1)OopsieVerse: A Safety Benchmark with Damage-Aware Simulation for Robot Manipulation
- IROS (T1)RoboSSM: Scalable In-context Imitation Learning via State-Space Models
- RLCSimple Recipe Works: Vision-Language-Action Models are Natural Continual Learners with Reinforcement Learning
- IROS (T1)VOFA: Visual Object Goal Pushing with Force-Adaptive Control for Humanoids
- IASEAIWhy Automate This? Exploring the Connection between Time Use, Well-being and Robot Automation Across Social Groups
20257 papers
- RA-LBiFlex: A Passive Bimodal Stiffness Flexible Wrist for Manipulation in Unstructured Environments
- ICRA (T1)BUMBLE: Unifying Reasoning and Acting with Vision-Language Models for Building-wide Mobile Manipulation
- CoRL (T1)COLLAGE: Adaptive Fusion-based Retrieval for Augmented Policy Learning
- Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous SystemsDeep Reinforcement Learning for Robotics: A Survey of Real-World Successes
- ICRA (T1)FLaRe: Achieving Masterful and Adaptive Robot Policies with Large-Scale Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning
- RSS (T1)SafeMimic: Towards Safe and Autonomous Human-to-Robot Imitation for Mobile Manipulation
- CoRL (T1)SLAC: Simulation-Pretrained Latent Action Space for Whole-Body Real-World RL
202410 papers
- IROS (T1)BaRiFlex: A Robotic Gripper with Versatility and Collision Robustness for Robot Learning
- NeurIPS (T1)Disentangled Unsupervised Skill Discovery for Efficient Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
- ICRA (T1)DROID: A Large-Scale In-The-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset
- ICRA WorkshopKinScene: Model-Based Mobile Manipulation of Articulated Scenes
- CoRL (T1)Learning to Look: Seeking Information for Decision Making via Policy Factorization
- ICRA (T1)Model-Based Runtime Monitoring with Interactive Imitation Learning
- RSS (T1)Natural Language Can Help Bridge the Sim2Real Gap
- ICRA (T1)Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models
- RSS (T1)ScrewMimic: Bimanual Imitation from Human Videos with Screw Space Projection
- NeurIPS (T1)SkiLD: Unsupervised Skill Discovery Guided by Factor Interactions
20236 papers
- RSS (T1)Causal Policy Gradient for Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation
- NeurIPS (T1)ELDEN: Exploration via Local Dependencies
- ICRA (T1)M-EMBER: Tackling Long-Horizon Mobile Manipulation via Factorized Domain Transfer
- ICLR (T1)MaskViT: Masked visual pre-training for video prediction
- ICML (T1)Modeling dynamic environments with scene graph memory
- CoRL (T1)MUTEX: Learning Unified Policies from Multimodal Task Specifications
Where alumni went9 listed, 25% to industry
Industry 1Academia 3
Most often to
- Senior Robotics Engineer at Dexmate
Also to
- NYU
- UC Berkeley
- University of Edinburgh
Apply to UT AustinFall 2027
Computer Science PhD
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- Single round (Dec 15)
- Opens
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Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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