Professor Righetti takes his robotics research on the road

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class="col-12 col-lg-4 col-xl-3"> <div class="content-meta-info mb-4"> <div class="from b-0 mt-3">Posted:</br> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-above">November 13, 2024</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="pr-0 pr-md-3 pl-0 pl-md-3"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <div class="field__item"> <img srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_default_1x/public/2024-11/Robotics_Lab8.JPG?h=4883b07c&itok=VnU5xztl 620w, /sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_default_1_5x/public/2024-11/Robotics_Lab8.JPG?h=4883b07c&itok=_obqCfoi 930w, /sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_620_1x/public/2024-11/Robotics_Lab8.JPG?h=4883b07c&itok=W0j0gced 938w, /sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_default_2x/public/2024-11/Robotics_Lab8.JPG?h=4883b07c&itok=ZDess2-5 1240w, 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Righetti in his Machines in Motion Laboratory</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="content-block d-lg-flex mt-lg-5"> <div class="col-12 col-lg-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-structured-body field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--styled-text paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-styled-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Associate Professor <a href="https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/ludovic-righetti">Ludovic Righetti</a>’s <a href="https://www.machinesinmotion.org/">Machines in Motion Laboratory</a> is based right here at NYU Tandon, in Brooklyn, but he is frequently called upon to present his research at high-profile conferences and seminars around the world.</p> <p>The latest presentation took place this month at Columbia University, where he spoke about his team’s groundbreaking work on nonlinear model predictive control (MPC), a rigorous and reliable technology used to get robots to walk and manipulate objects autonomously, and outlined their efforts to include multi-modal sensing and accelerate the generation of complex behaviors through machine learning and online optimization. </p> <p>Righetti, who holds an international chair at the <a href="https://aniti.univ-toulouse.fr/en/">Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute</a> in France and serves as a Vice-President of the <a href="http://www.ieee-ras.org/">IEEE Robotics and Automation Society</a>, is focused on developing algorithms to make robots that walk and manipulate objects autonomous, versatile and safe to interact with. His novel approach to machine learning and optimal control aims to create intelligent robots that “understand” when and how to interact with their environment, unknown objects, and people.</p> <p>At Columbia, he explained that the algorithms designed at the Machines in Motion Lab are intended for real applications with the potential to make real social impact and discussed the responsibility robotics researchers have to ensure that those impacts are positive.</p> <p>Just a few weeks before his presentation there, Righetti, an internationally recognized leader in legged locomotion research, had appeared at <a href="https://icra40.ieee.org/">ICRA@40</a>. This special conference celebrated the 40th anniversary of the <a href="http://www.ieee-ras.org/conferences-workshops/fully-sponsored/icra">IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation </a>(ICRA), the world’s largest conference in robotics. Joining a slate that included prominent roboticists from across the field, he presented a talk that asked, “Is locomotion a solved algorithmic problem?” </p> <p>Righetti’s research has long been a regular feature of ICRA: in 2023, for example, he described a method whereby a robot is able to adapt to changes in the environment directly from sensor measurement, and the previous year, he had proposed a novel paradigm to incorporate explicit force sensing into a predictive controller.</p> <p>Chances are good that when ICRA takes place in 2025, Righetti will once more be on the move.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field--related-researcher mb-5"> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 col-xl-2 ml-auto"> <div class="sidebar-wrapper" role="complementary" aria-label="Sidebar"> <div class="sidebar-menu"> <div class="share-social"> <div class="grid"> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/professor-righetti-takes-his-robotics-research-road&t=Professor%20Righetti%20takes%20his%20robotics%20research%20on%20the%20road" title="Share on Facebook" aria-label="Share on Facebook" rel="nofollow" class="social-icon-facebook grid-cell grid-square" onclick="window.open(this.href,'targetWindow','toolbar=no,location=0,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=626,height=436'); return false;" data-share="social" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">  <div class="square square-100" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="icon icon-icon-facebook-purple"></i> </div> </a> <a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/professor-righetti-takes-his-robotics-research-road&text=Professor%20Righetti%20takes%20his%20robotics%20research%20on%20the%20road" class="social-icon-twitter grid-cell grid-square" title="Share on Twitter" aria-label="Share on Twitter" onclick="window.open(this.href,'targetWindow','toolbar=no,location=0,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=626,height=436'); return false;" data-share="social" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">  <div class="square square-100" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="icon icon-icon-twitter-purple"></i> </div> </a> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/professor-righetti-takes-his-robotics-research-road&title=Professor%20Righetti%20takes%20his%20robotics%20research%20on%20the%20road&summary=&source=" title="Share on LinkedIn" aria-label="Share on LinkedIn" class="social-icon-linkedin grid-cell grid-square" onclick="window.open(this.href,'targetWindow','toolbar=no,location=0,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=626,height=436'); return false;" data-share="social" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">  <div class="square square-100" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="icon-linkedin-square"></i> </div> </a> <a href="mailto:?subject=NYU Tandon&body=Check out this site https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/professor-righetti-takes-his-robotics-research-road" aria-label="E-Mail this Article" title="Share by Email" class="social-icon-youtube grid-cell grid-square">  <div class="square square-100" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="icon icon-icon-mail-purple"></i> </div> </a> <a href="#0" title="Print This Article" aria-label="Print This Article" class="social-icon-print grid-cell grid-square" onclick="window.print();return false"> <div class="square square-100" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="icon icon-icon-print-purple"></i> </div>  </a> </div>  </div>  </div>  </div>  </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="container fix-breaker d-print-none"> <h2 class="mt-5 mb-3">More to Read</h2> <div class="views-element-container"><div class="view view-content-grid view-id-content_grid view-display-id-related_block js-view-dom-id-e4e8cea80eec7f8256ecf6f999d8c3ed2fe0278be8de6d0ec3304a95e50b13da"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="content-grid"> <div class="row-eq-height zebra-even"> <div class="col card px-0 grid-alternate"> <article class="node node--type-article node--promoted node--sticky node--view-mode-grid" aria-label="News - 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