I am a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Boston Dynamics and technical lead of the Large Behavior Models project. Before that I was a research scientist at NVIDIA. Before NVIDIA I did my PhD in Computer Science at MIT with Russ Tedrake in the Robot Locomotion Group within CSAIL. My research focuses on perception and control for robotic manipulation. These days I am specifically working on policies that can control robots in an end-to-end manner from pixels to actions leveraging human demonstrations as one of the sources of supervision.
Prior to starting the PhD I worked on the MIT Darpa Robotics Challenge Team doing planning and controls for the Atlas robot.
Contact / links:
Email: lucas dot t dot manuelli at gmail dot com
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Please reach out if you want to chat about research, possible roles/internships etc. Email is the best way to reach me.