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Model-informed safe reinforcement learning accepted to IROS 2026
Victor Paredes and Ayonga Hereid report IROS 2026 acceptance for their work on model-informed safe reinforcement learning.
Sep 28, 2026 1 min read
Upama Pant completes her master’s degree and joins Tesla
Upama graduated with an M.S. in July 2026 and joined Tesla.
July 2026 1 min read
Ayonga Hereid promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
Ohio State announces the 2026 promotion and tenure approvals.
Jun 5, 2026 1 min read
Adaptive step-duration paper accepted to IROS 2025
Zhaoyang Xiang and collaborators adapt foot placement and timing to restricted footholds.
Oct 19, 2025 1 min read
Victor Paredes becomes the Cyberbotics Lab’s second Ph.D. graduate
Victor completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in August 2025.
August 2025 1 min read
Real-time bipedal navigation paper accepted to ICRA 2025
Chengyang Peng and collaborators connect safe path planning with feasible walking gaits.
May 19, 2025 1 min read
Sean Starrett and Himanshu Lodha complete their master’s degrees
Sean and Himanshu graduated in May 2025; Himanshu continued to Ph.D. studies in another Ohio State lab.
May 2025 1 min read
Swaying-surface walking paper published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics
The journal paper reports foot-placement control evaluated in Digit simulation and hardware experiments.
2025 1 min read
Two humanoid-control papers accepted to ACC 2024
Victor Paredes and collaborators study whole-body safety constraints and momentum-based walking control.
Jul 10, 2024 1 min read
Two Cyberbotics Lab papers accepted to ICRA 2024
New papers address learned locomotion representations and repeatable disturbance-rejection testing.
May 13, 2024 1 min read