US UC BerkeleyElectrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Dec 1
Studies computer vision and learning for embodied agents, including object recognition and robot locomotion.
2026 D-REX: Differentiable Real-to-Sim-to-Real Engine for Learning Dexterous Grasping ICLR 2026 Deep Sensorimotor Control by Imitating Predictive Models of Human Motion ICRA 59 T170 papers10 members83 alumniUS UC BerkeleyDepartment of Mechanical Engineering Dec 1
Koushil Sreenath Professor of Mechanical Engineering Studies dynamic legged locomotion and learning-based control for humanoid robots.
2026 BeyondMimic: From Motion Tracking to Versatile Humanoid Control via Guided Diffusion Science Robotics 2026 CHyLL: Learning Continuous Neural Representations of Hybrid Systems TMLR 42 T165 papers6 members50 alumniCH EPFLInstitute of Bioengineering (IBI, School of Engineering STI) Dec 1
Leads the Biorobotics Laboratory, studying locomotion control with legged and amphibious robots, central pattern generators and neuromechanical simulation.
2026 Bioinspired multimodal robotics Science Robotics 2026 Centralized brain networks controlling antennal grooming coordination Nature Communications 34 T192 papers11 members27 alumniUS Georgia TechSchool of Interactive Computing Dec 15
Sehoon Ha Associate Professor Combines physics-based animation and deep reinforcement learning for legged robot control and computational robot design.
2026 A Design Co-Pilot for Task-Tailored Manipulators IJRR 2026 FiLM-Nav: Efficient and Generalizable Navigation via VLM Fine-tuning ICRA 30 T151 papers14 members21 alumniCH ETH ZurichDepartment of Mechanical and Process Engineering
Leads the Robotic Systems Lab, developing legged robots such as ANYmal and learning-based locomotion and mobile manipulation in rough terrain.
2026 A robot operating system framework for using large language models in embodied AI Nature Machine Intelligence 2026 Advances, challenges, and opportunities for legged robots Science Robotics 26 T1136 papers34 membersUS MITElectrical Engineering and Computer Science Dec 1
Russ Tedrake Toyota Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Aeronautics and Astronautics Studies dynamics and control of legged robots, humanoids, and dexterous manipulators, and develops the Drake toolbox for optimization-based robot design.
2026 How Well do Diffusion Policies Learn Kinematic Constraint Manifolds? ICRA 2026 A careful examination of large behavior models for multitask dexterous manipulation Sci. Robotics 23 T138 papers6 members136 alumniGB UCLDepartment of Computer Science
Zhibin Li Associate Professor in Swarm Robotics Leads the Advanced Intelligent Robotics Lab, building robots that learn, adapt and cooperate, including legged locomotion learning.
2026 DemoBot: Efficient Learning of Bimanual Manipulation with Dexterous Hands From Third-Person Human Videos ICRA 2026 Learning End-to-End Dexterous Arm-Hand VLA Policies with Shared Autonomy: DexGrasp AI Copilot for Efficient Teleoperation ICRA 21 T136 papersGroup size not listed US Georgia TechSchool of Mechanical Engineering Dec 15
Ye Zhao Assistant Professor Directs the LIDAR lab on legged locomotion planning and control for humanoid robots.
2026 ACLM: ADMM-Based Distributed Model Predictive Control for Collaborative Loco-Manipulation IROS 2026 Probabilistically-Safe Bipedal Navigation over Uncertain Terrain via Conformal Prediction and Contraction Analysis ICRA 20 T146 papers24 members63 alumniGB OxfordDepartment of Engineering Science Jan 7
Works on robot learning for legged locomotion and manipulation, including learning motion skills from demonstration.
2026 Quadruped Obstacle Avoidance and Footstep Planning with Distributed Low-cost Time-of-Flight Sensors RA-L 2026 Visual localization in 3D maps: comparing point cloud, mesh, and NeRF representations Autonomous Robotics 16 T140 papers8 members12 alumniGB OxfordDepartment of Engineering Science Jan 7
Leads the Dynamic Robot Systems Group on navigation and motion planning for legged robots such as quadrupeds.
2026 Quadruped Obstacle Avoidance and Footstep Planning with Distributed Low-cost Time-of-Flight Sensors RA-L 2026 Visual localization in 3D maps: comparing point cloud, mesh, and NeRF representations Autonomous Robotics 16 T140 papers8 members12 alumniCN TsinghuaInstitute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) Feb 28
Jianyu Chen Tenured associate professor Works on robotics, reinforcement learning, control, and autonomous driving, including humanoid robot learning.
2026 Ctrl-World: A Controllable Generative World Model for Robot Manipulation ICLR 2026 Dexora: Open-source VLA for High-DoF Bimanual Dexterity ICRA 15 T126 papersGroup size not listed US MichiganRobotics Dec 15
Ram Vasudevan Professor, Robotics; Associate Chair of Graduate Studies, Robotics Studies optimization and control of nonlinear and hybrid systems, including provably safe motion planning for legged robots and autonomous vehicles.
2026 These Magic Moments: Differentiable Uncertainty Quantification of Radiance Field Models ICRA 2026 Imaginative World Modeling With Scene Graphs via VLM for Object Navigation IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 12 T132 papers13 members57 alumniUS CMUComputer Science Department Dec 9
Jessica K. Hodgins Allen Newell University Professor of Computer Science And Robotics Studies computer animation and robotics, including human motion capture, simulation and legged locomotion.
2026 Contact-guided Real2Sim from Monocular Video with Planar Scene Primitives ICLR 2026 ZEST: Zero-shot embodied skill transfer for athletic robot control Sci. Robotics 11 T116 papersGroup size not listed US NYUElectrical and Computer Engineering (Tandon) Dec 12
Leads the Machines in Motion Laboratory, working on optimal control and reinforcement learning for legged locomotion and manipulation.
2024 Force Feedback Model-Predictive Control Via Online Estimation ICRA 2024 iDb-RRT: Sampling-based Kinodynamic Motion Planning with Motion Primitives and Trajectory Optimization IROS 11 T117 papers9 members24 alumniCN PekingSchool of Intelligence Science and Technology Jan 15
Researches machine learning, speech and language information processing, and humanoid robotics.
2026 Proactive Risk-Aware Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Driving in Unstructured Environments via Reinforcement Learning with Adaptive Reward Design ICRA 2026 Long-Horizon Embodied Planning with Implicit Logical Inference and Hallucination Mitigation RO-MAN 10 T126 papersGroup size not listed US MichiganRobotics Dec 15
Studies control of legged robots and powered prostheses and orthoses, drawing on nonlinear control and biomechanics of human locomotion.
2026 Optimal Energy Shaping and Force Amplification Framework for Task-Agnostic, Biomimetic Ankle Exoskeletons T-RO 2026 Controlling Powered Prosthesis Joint Impedance over Continuous Stance Transitions Between Walking and Stair Ascent/Descent IEEE Trans. Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 9 T138 papers12 members56 alumniGB UCLDepartment of Computer Science
Leads research on robot perception, cognition and learning for legged robots operating in unstructured environments.
2026 Autonomous Vineyard Exploration using LiDAR Sensing: A Field Evaluation on Legged-Wheeled Quadruped Robot ICRA Workshop 2026 CAD-SLAM: Consistency-Aware Dynamic SLAM with Dynamic-Static Decoupled Mapping IEEE Transactions on Robotics T-RO 8 T171 papers15 members82 alumniUS CMURobotics Institute Dec 9
Studies humanoid robotics, robot learning and soft assistive robots.
2025 One-Shot Video Imitation via Parameterized Symbolic Abstraction Graphs ICRA 2025 Skills Made to Order: Efficient Acquisition of Robot Cooking Skills Guided by Multiple Forms of Internet Data ICRA 7 T110 papers5 members16 alumniCN SJTUSchool of Computer Science May 31
Works on robot learning, legged locomotion and reinforcement learning for robots.
2026 Coordinated Humanoid Robot Locomotion with Symmetry Equivariant Reinforcement Learning Policy AAAI 2026 Keep on Going: Learning Robust Humanoid Motion Skills via Selective Adversarial Training AAAI 7 T119 papers13 members6 alumniUS Georgia TechSchool of Physics Dec 15
Studies robophysics, using robots and physics to understand locomotion in complex terrain such as granular media.
2026 Aubry–André localization transition for an active undulator Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) , https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2519118123 2026 Cross-link collective: Entangled robotic matter with cohesive motion Science Robotics 11:114 , https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.aec6393 6 T141 papers10 members151 alumni