Yu-Ming Chen

Roboticist, PhD student @GRASPlab

[Tesla @Tesla]

Q3 2026

Production: 464,391
Deliveries: 486,532
Energy storage deployments: 13.7 GWh

Our Q3 Company Update will be streamed live on X on October 21 at 4:30pm CT

https://t.co/sXBSeLiJIj

[Anirudha Majumdar @Majumdar_Ani]

Quite astonishing to hear the near-complete silence from tech leaders on the attacks on academic research. You've received PhDs from our institutions, and have hired countless more. This will come back to hurt in 5-10 years. The time to speak is now.

[Yu-Ming Chen @NTUNewSwimmer]

@audrow Congratulations!!

[Michael Posa @MichaelAPosa]

I'm recruiting multiple Ph.D. students across all departments (ME, EE, CS). Growing research projects focus on dexterous manipulation in novel settings, combining control and learning with visuotactile sensing and non-smooth dynamics.

Deadline December 16
https://t.co/TvYqWvWr1A

[Michael Posa @MichaelAPosa]

I'm looking forward to #ICRA2024, and proud of everyone in the lab. We have three papers to share this year!

https://t.co/2S5XiCPV8h

https://t.co/uBcZSAsbxH

https://t.co/P2uqfF8yww

[L4DC Conference @l4dc_conf]

@robo_kween telling us about safe learning-based HRI

[Agility @agilityrobotics]

This is a huge moment. Using a learned policy, Cassie set a world record. 🥇🎉

[Michael Posa @MichaelAPosa]

I couldn't agree more with this sentiment. It is imperative that we roboticists take ownership of the moral and ethical consequences of our work, both short and long term. Speaking for myself, I am deeply disappointed to see the weaponization of walking robots.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

If you're the smartest person in the room, then you're in the wrong room. 🧠

[Michael Posa @MichaelAPosa]

New preprint: "Impact Invariant Control with Applications to Bipedal Locomotion," by William Yang.

During impacts, robots undergo large and rapid changes in velocity. State estimation, and thus control, in these periods are incredibly difficult. (1/2)

https://t.co/LYZwlQlN8h

[Michael Posa @MichaelAPosa]

I am excited to give the mechanical engineering seminar at the University of Michigan tomorrow! I'll be talking about our lab's recent work learning models of multi-contact dynamics, simple model optimization, and feedback design.

https://t.co/nJkFj5Mpnw