Advanced Mechanical Bipedal Experimental Robotics Laboratory @Caltech specializes in design and control of bipedal and humanoid robots.

Caltech, Pasadena, CA
Joined October 2010
New work from the lab on robust sim2real transfer of multifinger grasps using the strategy of grasp evaluation being presented at #Corl2024! We're releasing a dataset of 3.5M labeled grasps with corresponding perceptual data - see the 🧵 from @albert_h_li below for details!
There have been many recent big grasping datasets, but few demos of real-world grasping using generative models. How do we achieve this? Introducing: Get a Grip (#corl2024)! We show that instead of generative models, discriminative models can attain sim2real transfer! 👀🧵👇
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Awesome new work from our lab member @albert_h_li! Sampling-based control strategies like CEM alone are viable for contact-rich tasks like in-hand cube reorientation in the real world (no reinforcement learning 🤯). For more details, check the thread below👇
Excited to share our new📰, DROP: Dexterous Reorientation via Online Planning! Overview: 🔹We tackle cube rotation🧊♻️on hardware 🔹DROP is the first 🧊♻️sampling-based MPC demo. No reinforcement learning! 🔹Median 30.5 rotations w/o dropping, max of 81👑🦾 See 🧵below👇
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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. 🤖🏃🤹
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Asimov really meant control barrier functions when he defined the first law of robotics.⁦@AMBER_lab⁩
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So so honored to have received the “Best Thesis in MCE” award this year! Huge shoutout to all my collaborators 🎉🎓💯 ⁦@AMBER_lab⁩ ⁦@yisongyue⁩
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ICRA was an eventful conference for the AMBER lab this year with a total of 3 best paper awards! See 🧵for details…
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AMBER lab graduate students Wyatt and Noel took home the “Outstanding Student Paper” and “Outstanding Dynamics and Control Paper” awards, respectively, for their work on planning through motion primitive graphs and MPC for 3D hopping
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And AMBER lab post-doc Jeeseop took home the “Outstanding Paper” award for work that he did during his PhD (with Randy, Leila, and Kaveh) on multi-agent collaboration. Congrats to all!!
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I am so happy to share that our paper entitled ``Distributed data-driven predictive control for multi-agent collaborative legged locomotion" by my Ph.D. students R. Fawcett, L. Amanzadeh, and J. Kim, in collaboration with Dr. A. Ames (@AMBER_lab), has been selected as the outstanding paper of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (#ICRA2023). arxiv.org/abs/2211.06917
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Excited to share our review paper that just came out on control methods for lower-limb powered prostheses! @maegan_tucker1 @AMBER_lab @GT_EPIC_Lab authors.elsevier.com/a/1gsBM…
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So happy to share our survey paper on state-of-the-art control techniques for lower-limb powered prostheses!! authors.elsevier.com/c/1gsBM… @RachelGehlhar @AMBER_lab @GT_EPIC_Lab
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Looking forward to giving a seminar at the University of Minnesota today! I'm excited to join the Mechanical Engineering faculty here in Spring 2024. @UMNME @UMNCSE cse.umn.edu/me/events/depart…
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Thrilled to announce our 🔥 Keynote Speakers 🔥 for L4DC 2023: @ylecun @yuqirose @robo_kween @vikassindhwani Aaron Ames (@AMBER_lab) and Tamer Başar! l4dc.seas.upenn.edu/
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Today I officially signed an offer to become an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology starting January 2024!!! I will be joining both the @GeorgiaTech_ECE and @MEGeorgiaTech departments. @gatechengineers @GeorgiaTech
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We had such a blast hosting the FTC Team 25 Rock N’ Roll Robots — a local all-girls robotics team! Can’t wait to see what you all accomplish this year!🤖💪🏼💁🏻‍♀️ @maegan_tucker1 @RachelGehlhar @noel_c_s
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We’ve been loving having some of the Wandercraft team here at Caltech! Stay tuned for some new exo videos @ExoWandercraft
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Most exciting is the new “active mode”! Any guesses on what sensors were measuring from (underneath the colored wrap on the subjects legs)?
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Little game of “I Spy” — AMBER lab edition @AMBER_lab @noel_c_s
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That feeling when you bike around campus with roughly your annual salary in your backpack 😅 Huge thank you to @AMBER_lab, @amykjli & @maegan_tucker1 for letting us demo their hardware!! Bonus for any one who can tell me what these beauties are 🤓😍😃
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