DreamZero is a World Action Model by NVIDIA that replaces the Vision-Language backbone common in VLAs with a video diffusion model to inherit richer physical priors. I compare DreamZero with π0.5 across 12 tasks in Isaac Sim on a DROID setup.
I use reinforcement learning in NVIDIA Isaac Lab to train Boston Dynamics' Spot to stand and move using only its hind legs. Despite several challenges, I achieve zero-shot sim-to-real transfer and deploy the policy directly on real hardware.
Grievous is a low-cost mobile manipulation platform built on XLeRobot, extended with onboard SO-101 leader arms for fast in-place teleoperation. We finetune SmolVLA on pick-and-place and dusting tasks collected in lab environment and showcase current …
At Multi AI, we have built a multi-agent reinforcement learning platform for complex planning and coordination problems of large numbers of assets in the military.
From voice command to synchronized flip: we show our early autonomous mission planning work that grew into Multi AI, including Tello drone choreography and a loyal wingman simulation for unmanned-manned teaming.
What if a drone could build structures humans can't reach? We investigate integrating underactuated multicopters with 3D printing for large-scale remote additive manufacturing — demonstrating aerial positioning accuracy competitive with ground-based …
Standard path planners proved insufficient for dense multi-drone environments. We develop custom algorithms on top of EGO-Planner to enable robust obstacle avoidance in the Texas Robotics motion capture space, supporting advanced multi-agent …
35 × 35 × 20 feet of submillimeter-accurate airspace — built from the ground up. We designed, constructed, and commissioned the Texas Robotics motion capture facility at UT Austin (Anna Hiss Gymnasium) to serve as the backbone for robotics research.
Unstable flight, premature extrusion, material that refuses to adhere — this is what aerial 3D printing looks like at the start. We document the first prototype test of a multi-year aerial additive manufacturing research program, including what went …
A portfolio of robot mechanism and control projects from graduate studies at UT Austin: a centralized-actuation 3-finger gripper, PD and inverse kinematics control of planar and 6-DOF arms, and a rehabilitation table prototype.