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Oct 17, 2026 New preprint: DiPLO combines self-distilled diffusion planning with whole-body tracking for humanoid loco-manipulation, with deployment on a real Unitree G1. [paper] [website] [video]
Oct 15, 2026 DynaRetarget and Humanoid-DART have been accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)! [DynaRetarget paper] [Humanoid-DART paper]
Jul 28, 2026 Our work FARO received the Best Poster Award at the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Optimization for Robotics virtual poster session and networking event. [event] [paper]
Jul 20, 2026 New preprint: FARO uses feasibility-aware motion optimization to search for and execute humanoid loco-manipulation behaviors. [paper] [video]
Jun 25, 2026 New preprint: Humanoid-DART combines diffusion-based trajectory generation and reinforcement learning to expand humanoid loco-manipulation skills from sparse demonstrations. [paper]
Jun 17, 2026 Learning to Act Through Contact is published in the proceedings of L4DC 2026, PMLR volume 331. [proceedings] [video]
Jun 7, 2026 New preprint: MotionDisco: Motion Discovery for Extreme Humanoid Loco-Manipulation is now available on arXiv. [paper] [website] [video]
Mar 17, 2026 New preprint: SLowRL combines low-rank adaptation with a recovery policy for safer, more efficient fine-tuning of locomotion policies on hardware. [paper]
Feb 10, 2026 New preprint: DynaRetarget: Dynamically-Feasible Retargeting using Sampling-Based Trajectory Optimization is now available on arXiv. [paper] [website] [video]
Oct 6, 2025 New preprint: Learning to Act Through Contact: A Unified View of Multi-Task Robot Learning is now available on arXiv. [paper] [video]
Jul 12, 2024 Presented our recent work on Learning to Climb Vertical Ladders with Quadrupeds using Carpal-Claw Design at the TC Poster Session and Networking Event 2024 [presentation] [video].
Apr 15, 2024 I have officially started my PhD with the ATARI Lab at the Technical University of Munich.
Sep 30, 2023 SafeSteps has been accepted to the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots 2023.
Jul 24, 2023 The preprint of our latest paper on Safe Foothold Adaptations for Legged Robots, SafeSteps, is now available. See the publications section.
May 22, 2022 Joined the Dynamic Legged Systems Lab (DLS@IIT).