🎉 EECS Visit Day 2026 — March 16, 1–4 PM  ·  Robot Demos at SDH & Cory Hall

Our Approach

A gymnastics coach does not teach by commanding joint angles. Similarly, embodied intelligence requires understanding the fundamental principles of physical learning rather than exhaustive programming of specific motions.

Research at EMBER follows a principled direction, prioritizing methods that develop deep understanding over demonstrations that fail to scale. We are particularly interested in studying the sim-to-real gap as a robustness metric when we deploy our models zero-shot on hardware.

EMBER Seminars

Giuseppe Loianno: Learning Robot Super Autonomy
Oct 01, 2025 (1 hour)

Giuseppe Loianno: Learning Robot Super Autonomy

Soon-Jo Chung: Learning and Decision Making for Agile Robots Under Failure
Sep 17, 2025 (1 hour)

Soon-Jo Chung: Learning and Decision Making for Agile Robots Under Failure

Ken Goldberg: Good Old-Fashioned Engineering Can Close the 100,000-Year “Data Gap”
Sep 10, 2025 (1 hour)

Ken Goldberg: Good Old-Fashioned Engineering Can Close the 100,000-Year “Data Gap”