A study co-authored by CERL Advisory Council Member Vijay Kumar has recently been recognized for its role in advancing AI-enhanced robotics. The paper, on enhancing robotic efficiency at performing multi-step series of actions while learning efficiently and scalably, won both the Best Paper Award in Planning and Control and the Best Conference Paper overall at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), as well as the Best Paper Award at the 2025 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) LEAP Workshop.
Vijay Kumar is the Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a member of CERL’s Advisory Council. Read his bio here.
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