Preston Culbertson

I'm so excited to announce I will be joining @Cornell_CS as an assistant professor next fall! I can't wait to launch my lab and start building robots with human-level dexterity and adaptability. 🤖🏃🤹

@kevin_zakka @Googleorg Congrats, Kevin! Very well-deserved, and excited to see what's next

Super happy and honored to be a 2025 Google PhD Fellow! Thank you @Googleorg for believing in my research. I'm looking forward to making humanoid robots more capable and trustworthy partners 🤗

If you haven't already, you should check out judo, the MPC package underlying a lot of the skills here (including the tire flip-up!!) - we're excited to see what other cool ideas people can cook up github.com/bdaiinstitute/…

So cool to see the loco-manipulation stack we developed at RAI out in the wild! Congrats to @simonlc_ and the team for the awesome demo. This ability to adapt RL policies using test-time reward spec + MPC/search is really cool / basically why we built judo.

Thank you everyone for an amazing event! Looking forward to next year's NERC at Princeton! #NERC2025

Just over one week until registration closes for NERC! Register by next Friday, Oct 3, to join us in Ithaca next month. 🎟️events.ces.scl.cornell.edu/event/NERC/sum…

Just one month until NERC 2025! Come to Cornell on Oct 11 for a full day of cutting-edge robotics research and community. 📍 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 🗓️ Oct 11, 2025 🎟️ Register by Oct 11: events.ces.scl.cornell.edu/event/NERC

Update: Due to an OpenReview outage, the NERC submission deadline will be extended by one day, to tomorrow, Wed Sep 3 at 11:59pm ET. Looking forward to reviewing your submissions!

Join us in Ithaca this October for NERC! Submissions are due this Tuesday, Sept 2 - excited to see everyone at Cornell in a few weeks.

judo is still early days, but we hope it lowers the barrier to SMPC and sparks new directions in control and robot learning. Try it here 👉 github.com/bdaiinstitute/… or: pip install judo-rai

@albert_h_li @simonlc_ @brenthyi There’s more to come: ⚡ GPU-accelerated sim (via mujoco_warp) 🦾 New tasks: locomotion, dexterous manipulation 🧠 Hooks for adding learning-based components

🥋 We're excited to share judo: a hackable toolbox for sampling-based MPC (SMPC), data collection, and more, designed to make it easier to experiment with high-performance control. Try it: pip install judo-rai

@rkjenamani Congrats Rajat!! Really compelling work + very well-deserved 🎉🥳

Really excited to share that FEAST won the Best Paper Award at #RSS2025! Huge thanks to everyone who’s shaped this work, from roboticists to care recipients, caregivers, and occupational therapists. ❤️

Congrats to @albert_h_li for winning Outstanding Paper today at the CoRL workshop for learning fine + dexterous manipulation!