Robot Learning Lab @UW

The Robot Learning Laboratory at the University of Washington works on foundational research in machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics. Our goal is to develop intelligent robotic systems that can perceive, plan, and act in complex environments and improve performance with experience.

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06/2025 Matthew Schmittle, Rohan Baijal, Nathan Hatch, Rosario Scalise, Mateo Guaman Castro, Sidharth Talia, Khimya Khetarpal, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Byron Boots received the Best Workshop Paper Award for the paper 'Long Range Navigator (LRN): Extending robot planning horizons beyond metric maps' at the Workshop on Resilient Off-road Autonomous Robotics (RSS-ROAR 2025)!
05/2025 Sandesh Adhikary successfully defended his thesis "Mind the Metric: Metric-Informed Methods in Machine Learning". Congratulations, Sandesh!
05/2025 Carolina Higuera successfully passed the UW CSE General Exam. Congratulations, Carolina!
10/2024 Octi Zhang, Quanquan Peng, Rosario Scalise, Bryon Boots received the Best Workshop Paper Award for the paper 'Parental Guidance: Efficient Lifelong Learning through Evolutionary Distillation' at the Workshop on Morphology-Aware Policy and Design Learning Workshop (CoRL 2024)!
10/2024 Tyler Han successfully passed the Qualifying Evaluation. Congratulations, Tyler!
10/2024 Sanghun Jung successfully passed the Qualifying Evaluation. Congratulations, Sanghun!
09/2024 Carolina Higuera received the ICRA 2024 Conference Editorial Board Outstanding Reviewers Award. Congratulations, Carolina!
05/2024 Adam Fishman successfully defended his thesis "The Expert is the Obstacle: Building a General Framework for Learned Robot Motion". Congratulations Adam!
04/2024 Sandesh Adhikary successfully passed the UW CSE General Exam. Congratulations Sandesh!
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