Welcome to the Figueroa Robotics Lab
Established in Fall 2022. We are a group within the Penn Engineering GRASP Lab.
We are building the next-generation of human-centered robotic intelligence through novel estimation, learning and control algorithms that are efficient, reliable, adaptive and safe.
We are grateful to our research sponsors:
Latest News
Penn Engineering Features Figueroa Robotics Lab: “Teaching Robots to Do More with Less Data”Featuring SymSkill and Zero-Shot Generalization work. Read the full story.
Memory-Aware Multi-Sensor Perception paper named LTP Workshop Best Paper Finalist at IROS 2026Congratulations to Yifan Xue, Jingshuo Li, Yifei Li, Shubhodeep Aditya, and Prof. Figueroa on “Memory-Aware Multi-Sensor Perception for Efficient and Safe Navigation in Dynamic Environments” being selected as a Best Paper Finalist at the Long-Term Perception for Human-Centric Autonomy (LTP) Workshop at IROS 2026. Code, videos, and paper.
Lab Awarded AMD University Program Compute AllocationCongratulations to Figueroa Robotics Lab on being awarded a compute allocation on the AMD University Program for the project “Control-Ready 3D Perception for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation,” starting October 2026.
Zero-Shot Generalization paper named CASE 2026 Best Conference Paper FinalistCongratulations to Kilian Freitag, Alvin Combrink, and Prof. Figueroa on their paper being selected as a finalist for the Best Conference Paper Award at IEEE CASE 2026 in Shenyang, China.
Two Best Paper Awards at ICRA 2026SymSkill won both the Best Paper Award in Planning and Control and the overall Best Conference Paper Award at IEEE ICRA 2026 in Vienna, Austria — congratulations to the team!