Chelsea Finn is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, the William George and Ida Mary Hoover Faculty Fellow, and a co-founder of Physical Intelligence (Pi). Her research interests lie in the capability of robots and other agents to develop broadly intelligent behavior through learning and interaction. To this end, her work has pioneered end-to-end deep learning methods for vision-based robotic manipulation, meta-learning algorithms for few-shot learning, and approaches for scaling robot learning to broad datasets. Her research has been recognized by awards such as the Sloan Fellowship, the IEEE RAS Early Academic Career Award, and the ACM doctoral dissertation award, and has been covered by various media outlets including the New York Times, Wired, and Bloomberg. Prior to joining Stanford, she received her Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and her PhD in Computer Science at UC Berkeley.

Scott Kuindersma is the Senior Director of Robotics Research at Boston Dynamics where he leads behavior research on Atlas. Prior to joining Boston Dynamics, he was an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Computer Science at Harvard. Scott’s research explores intersections of machine learning and model-based control to improve the capabilities of humanoids and other dynamic mobile manipulators.

Yuke Zhu is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department of UT-Austin, where he directs the Robot Perception and Learning (RPL) Lab. He is also a core faculty at Texas Robotics and a senior research scientist at NVIDIA. He focuses on developing intelligent algorithms for generalist robots and embodied agents to reason about and interact with the real world. His research spans robotics, computer vision, and machine learning. He received his Master's and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. His works have won several awards and nominations, including the Best Conference Paper Award in ICRA 2019, Outstanding Learning Paper at ICRA 2022, Outstanding Paper at NeurIPS 2022, and Best Paper Finalists in IROS 2019, 2021, and RSS 2023. He received the NSF CAREER Award and the Amazon Research Awards.

Jitendra Malik is Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley. His research has spanned computer vision, machine learning, modeling of human vision, computer graphics, and most recently robotics. He has advised more than 70 Ph.D. students and postdocs, many of whom are now prominent researchers. His honors include numerous best paper prizes, the 2013 Distinguished Researcher award in computer vision, the 2016 ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award, the 2018 IJCAI Award for Research Excellence in AI, and the 2019 IEEE Computer Society’s Computer Pioneer Award for “leading role in developing Computer Vision into a thriving discipline through pioneering research, leadership, and mentorship”. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Toru Lin is a PhD student at Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) advised by Jitendra Malik and Alexei Efros. She is also affiliated with the NVIDIA GEAR group led by Jim Fan and Yuke Zhu. Previously, she obtained her BSc and MEng from MIT EECS, under the supervision of Antonio Torralba and Phillip Isola. Before transferring to MIT, she was an undergraduate student at The University of Tokyo. She is currently building real-world robot systems that can achieve dexterous low-level skills through end-to-end learning.

Xingxing Wang the Founder/CEO/CTO of Unitree, a technology supremacist. During his master’s degree, he pioneered the development of XDog, a high-performance quadruped robot driven by a low-cost external rotor brushless motor, pioneering the technology of low-cost, high-performance footed robots. After graduating in 2016, joined DJI. At the same time, the XDog robot was reported by many media at home and abroad, and received a huge response in the global robotics circle. He then resigned and founded Unitree in August 2016. It became the first company in the world to publicly retail high-performance quadruped robots, leading global sales year after year, significantly promoting the commercialization process of global high-performance quadruped robots. He has been invited to give speeches at the ICRA 2018~2022 Footed Robot Forum, the top international robotics conference, and has applied for more than 150 domestic and foreign patents. Led the company to obtain multiple rounds of investment from Sequoia, Shunwei, Matrix Partners, etc. He once led a team to have the company’s products appear on the CCTV Year of the Ox Spring Festival Gala stage, the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, and the Super Bowl. 2023 Fortune China’s 40 business elites under 40 years old.

Moritz Bächer is a Research Scientist at Disney Research, where he leads the Computational Design and Manufacturing group. He is deeply passionate about solving real-world problems in computational robotics, fabrication, and architecture. His core expertise is the development of differentiable simulators to tackle complex design, control, and characterization problems in (soft) robotics, architecture, and computer graphics. Before joining Disney, he received a Ph.D. from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and graduated with a master’s from ETH Zurich.

Jonathan Hurst is a Professor of Robotics, co-founder of the Oregon State University Robotics Institute, and Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Agility Robotics. He holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering and an M.S. and Ph.D. in robotics, all from Carnegie Mellon University. His university research focuses on understanding the fundamental science and engineering best practices for legged locomotion. Investigations range from numerical studies and analysis of animal data, to simulation studies of theoretical models, to designing, constructing, and experimenting with legged robots for walking and running, and more recently, using machine learning techniques merged with more traditional control to enable highly dynamic gaits. Agility Robotics is extending this research to commercial applications for robotic legged mobility, working towards a day when robots can go where people go, generate greater productivity across the economy, and improve quality of life for all.

Vikash Kumar is an adjunct professor at the Robotics Institute, CMU. He finished his Ph.D. from the University of Washington with Prof. Emo Todorov and Prof. Sergey Levine, where his research focused on imparting human-level dexterity to anthropomorphic robotic hands. He continued his research as a post-doctoral fellow with Prof. Sergey Levine at University of California Berkeley where he further developed his methods to work on low-cost scalable systems. He also spent time as a Research Scientist at OpenAI and Google-Brain where he diversified his research on low-cost scalable systems to the domain of multi-agent locomotion. He has also been involved with the development of the MuJoCo physics engine, now widely used in the fields of Robotics and Machine Learning. His works have been recognized with the best Master's thesis award, best manipulation paper at ICRA’16, best workshop paper ICRA'22, CIFAR AI chair '20 (declined), and have been widely covered with a wide variety of media outlets such as NewYorkTimes, Reuters, ACM, WIRED, MIT Tech reviews, IEEE Spectrum, etc.

Ziwen Zhuang is a PhD student at IIIS, Tsinghua University. He is also working as a research assistant with Professor Hang Zhao at Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute. He completed his Master’s degree at ShanghaiTech University, advised by Professor Soeren Schwertfeger. Ziwen’s research focuses on robot learning, especially athletic intelligence on legged robots. He published Robot Parkour Learning at CoRL 2023, which achieved Best System Award Finalist. Prior to that, he was a research intern at Carnegie Mellon University working with Professor David Held, and he was the algorithm leader of ShanghaiTech RoboMaster team.

Manuel Yves Galliker is the team lead for controls and embedded at 1X Technologies. He holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in mechanical engineering with a focus on robotics, systems and controls from ETH Zurich. Manuel's research interests range from mechantronics to optimal, data-driven and reinforcement learned controls with a focus on locomotion and loco-manipulation. During his academic tenure, he dedicated his efforts of his master thesis to researching online gait generation for bipedal robots using Whole-Body Dynamics in a Nonlinear Model Predictive Control approach, contributing at ETH's Robotics Systems Lab and as a visiting researcher at Caltech's AMBER lab. This work culminated in a publication presented at the IEEE Humanoids 2022 conference, where it was distinguished as a finalist for the Best Paper Award. In his current role he is leading the R&D efforts on controls and embedded for the new bipedal Android NEO. In particular the team is aiming to develop whole body control and planning algorithms, ranging from Centroidal MPC to Whole-Body MPC and Reinforcement Learning, to enable consecutively more and more general loco-manipulation behaviors.

Serena Ivaldi is a tenured senior research scientist (director of research) in Inria, France, leading the humanoid and human-robot interaction activities of Team Larsen in Inria Nancy, France. She obtained her Ph.D. in Humanoid Technologies in 2011 at the Italian Institute of Technology and University of Genoa, Italy, and the French Habilitation to Direct Research in 2022 at the University of Lorraine, France. Prior to joining Inria, she was a post-doctoral researcher at UPMC in Paris, France, then at the University of Darmstadt, Germany. In 2023 she also spent two months at the European Space Agency as visiting expert. She is currently Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Social Robotics and has been serving as Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. She was Program Chair of the conferences IEEE/RAS Humanoids 2019, IEEE ARSO 2023, Tutorial Chair for CORL 2021, and is the General Chair of IEEE/RAS Humanoids 2024. She has been serving IEEE RAS as Associate Vice-president of MAB and co-chair of the ICRA Steering Committee. She was a proud judge of the ANA Avatar Xprize competition in 2022. She received the Suzanne Zivi Prize for excellence in research, the 2021 IEEE RA-L Distinguished Service Award as Outstanding Associate Editor, and was nominated in the 50 Women in robotics you need to know about in 2021.

Xiaolong Wang is an assistant professor at UC San Diego in the ECE department. He is affliated with the CSE department, Center for Visual Computing, Contextual Robotics Institute, and Artificial Intelligence Group. He is a member of the Robotics team in the TILOS NSF AI Institute. He was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley with Alexei Efros and Trevor Darrell. He received his Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, at where he worked with Abhinav Gupta.