Dieter Fox
Professor
Studies robot perception, state estimation and manipulation, combining probabilistic methods with deep learning.
Dieter Fox's lab at UW works on robot perception & SLAM, manipulation & robot learning and probabilistic & causal inference. 16 papers since 2023, 10 at top venues, mostly ICRA and IROS. 6 PhD students. 48 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 4/ year
- at T1 venues
- 63%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 48
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 7 papers2026 · T1 5 · collecting
- 3 papers2025 · T1 2
- 4 papers2024 · T1 1
- 2 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, IROS, RA-L, UIST
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning10 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM5 papers
- Probabilistic & causal inference0 papers
- state estimation0 papers
- state0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20267 papers
- ICRA (T1)GRAPE: Generalizing Robot Policy via Preference Alignment (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)GraspGen: A Diffusion-based Framework for 6-DOF Grasping with On-Generator Training (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)MolmoAct: Action Reasoning Models that can Reason in Space (opens in a new tab)
- Robotics: Science and Systems XXIIMolmoSpaces: Large-Scale Open Ecosystem for Robot Manipulation and Navigation (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)PEEK: Guiding and Minimal Image Representations for Zero-Shot Generalization of Robot Manipulation Policies (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Robo Eval: Where Robotic Manipulation Meets Structured and Scalable Evaluation (opens in a new tab)
- Robotics: Science and Systems XXIIRobometer: Scaling General-Purpose Robotic Reward Models via Trajectory Comparisons (opens in a new tab)
20253 papers
20244 papers
- UIST (T1)EVE: Enabling Anyone to Train Robots using Augmented Reality (opens in a new tab)
- Lecture Notes in Computer ScienceLearning to Build by Building Your Own Instructions (opens in a new tab)
- Robotics: Science and Systems XXTHE COLOSSEUM: A Benchmark for Evaluating Generalization for Robotic Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- Robotics: Science and Systems XXURDFormer: A Pipeline for Constructing Articulated Simulation Environments from Real-World Images (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went48 listed, 0% to industry
Industry 0Academia 4
Also to
- Harvard University
- NUS
- Stanford University
Apply to UWFall 2027
UW Allen School Computer Science PhD
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- Opens
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- not required
- English
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