We are the People and Robots Teaching and Learning (PoRTaL) group at Cornell Computer Science.
We build everyday robots for everyday users.
Our mission is to make robots accessible, user-friendly and practical for everyday tasks from cooking to cleaning. To this end, our research focuses on imitation learning, decision making and human-robot interaction. We are passionate about both theory and algorithms that equip robots with skills to work with people.
If you are interested in joining our minion army to take over the world, apply here!.
news
| Apr 6, 2024 | We got a Google Research Scholar Award to work on LLMs and Planning! Thank you Google! |
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| Apr 6, 2024 | Excited to finally share MOSAIC, our multi-robot collaborative cooking system. Checkout the explainer tweet! |
| Apr 6, 2024 | Congratulations to Prithwish Dan for 2024 Merril Presidential Scholar! Also honorable mention for CRA outstanding undergraduate research. |
| Apr 6, 2024 | Cool paper at ICRA 2024, Interact, on training transformer models to predict human motion conditioned on robot actions. Congratulations to Kushal and team! |
| Apr 1, 2024 | Fun talk at Andrea’s class in CMU on To Rl or not to RL! |
| Feb 24, 2024 | We got an award from NASA to work on learning human-drone teaming policies. Thank you NASA! Read more here. |
| Jan 4, 2024 | Invited talk at ISAIM Deep RL Workshop on “To RL or not to RL”! |
| Oct 2, 2023 | Congratulations to Yuki, Gonzalo and Yash for their first paper at Neurips 2023, Demo2Code! |
| Sep 27, 2023 | New NSF FRR grant on Inverse Task Planning with Jeannette Bohg! |
| Sep 15, 2023 | Exciting paper at CORL 2023, Manicast, on learning human forecasts for collaborative human-robot manipulation. Congratulations to Kushal and team! Check out the explainer tweet. |
| Aug 15, 2023 |
New NSF Grant on superhuman imitation learning with the O.G  Brian Ziebart at UIC. Check out the Cornell Chronicle article to learn more!
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| Jul 15, 2023 | Exciting new work, Demo2Code, on learning from demonstrations with LLMs! Check out the explainer tweet. |
| Jul 1, 2023 | Congratulations to Kushal and Prithwish for their first paper at IROS 2023, Game theoretic forecasting & planning! Here’s the explainer tweet. |
| May 22, 2023 |
Big plans for the summer with our new undergraduate researchers Max Pace, Atiksh Bhardwaj, Vivian Fan and Lisa Asriev! 
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| May 8, 2023 |
We had an amaaazing end-of-semester social!  HAL and DORA, for the first time ever, showed off how to collaboratively cook with our human user, Neha. Checkout the demo https://youtu.be/QYsRzu7b_iQ and behind the scenes!
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| May 3, 2023 |
Two very cool papers at ICML: The Virtue of Laziness in MBRL and IRL without RL. Reset distributions are back this summer!
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| May 1, 2023 |
Here’s a sneak peek  of HAL and DORA getting ready to cook together with humans for the first time! This was a massive engineering effort combining the power of large language models, speech detection, visual imitation learning, motion capture, forecasting, model predictive control and more!
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| Apr 27, 2023 | We had a blast showing off HAL at BOOM, back after 3 years at Cornell! Checkout pictures! |
| Feb 5, 2023 |
Welcome the newest PoRTaLites  - David Wu, Prithwish Dan, Neha Sunkara, Gonzalo Gonzalez and Yash Sharma!
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| Jan 29, 2023 | Kicking off the new year with new papers! Impossibly Good Experts and How to Follow Them at ICLR 2023, Guided Incremental Local Densification at ICRA 2023. |