Projects

Research directions, the papers behind them, and notes from the field.

1 paper · arXiv 2026

Humanoid SRL

An extra arm expands humanoid reach, support, and whole-body manipulation, with trajectory optimization and Learn-to-Teach control.

Humanoid robots with neck- and back-mounted extra arms performing manipulation and support tasks

1 paper · arXiv 2026

Spectral Skills

A latent command space for humanoid control, learned by predicting motion: tracking, chaining, and composing skills on a Unitree G1.

1 paper · arXiv 2026

Locomotion on Granular Media

Granular contact physics and terrain-adaptive reinforcement learning for humanoid locomotion on shifting ground.

2 papers

Humanoid Locomotion

Learning what a walking robot should optimize, and how to train its controller efficiently. Infer and Adapt learns rewards from demonstrations; Learn to Teach uses privileged simulation information to train deployable policies.

1 paper · ICML 2026 Oral

Distributional Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Recovering reward and return distributions from demonstrations for risk-aware imitation learning.

Neural dopamine reward recovery distributions and empirical CDFs

1 paper · ICRA 2026

Stable End-Effector Control

Model-enhanced residual learning for stable end-effector control during humanoid loco-manipulation.

1 paper · ICRA 2026

RL-augmented Adaptive MPC

RL corrections to adaptive MPC so bipedal locomotion stays accurate on challenging terrain.