I'm so excited to announce I will be joining @Cornell_CS as an assistant professor next fall!
I can't wait to launch my lab and start building robots with human-level dexterity and adaptability. ๐ค๐๐คน
If you haven't already, you should check out judo, the MPC package underlying a lot of the skills here (including the tire flip-up!!) - we're excited to see what other cool ideas people can cook up
https://t.co/P6JupEg3q9
So cool to see the loco-manipulation stack we developed at RAI out in the wild! Congrats to @simonlc_ and the team for the awesome demo.
This ability to adapt RL policies using test-time reward spec + MPC/search is really cool / basically why we built judo.
See Spot perform dynamic whole-body manipulation. Using a combination of reinforcement learning (RL) and sampling-based control, the robot is able to autonomously drag, roll, and stack tires weighing 15 kg (33 lb), well above its maximum arm lift capacity.
Learn more about coordinating locomotion and manipulation processes: https://t.co/qBDOWJtgft
Just one month until NERC 2025!
Come to Cornell on Oct 11 for a full day of cutting-edge robotics research and community.
๐ Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
๐๏ธ Oct 11, 2025
๐๏ธ Register by Oct 11: https://t.co/J3rjBM85gs
Update: Due to an OpenReview outage, the NERC submission deadline will be extended by one day, to tomorrow, Wed Sep 3 at 11:59pm ET.
Looking forward to reviewing your submissions!
Reminder: Poster and Rising Star submissions for NERC 2025 are due next Tuesday, Sep 2!
Submit now for a great opportunity to share your research with robotics faculty and peers.
๐ https://t.co/AxyUdcxLc9
๐ Deadline: Sep 2
judo is still early days, but we hope it lowers the barrier to SMPC and sparks new directions in control and robot learning.
Try it here ๐ https://t.co/KlVmzU5nF2
or: pip install judo-rai
๐ฅ We're excited to share judo: a hackable toolbox for sampling-based MPC (SMPC), data collection, and more, designed to make it easier to experiment with high-performance control.
Try it: pip install judo-rai