🔬 University#46 San Diego, CA, USA· Est. 2016
UC San Diego — Contextual Robotics Institute
Interdisciplinary robotics center bridging neuroscience and robotics. Known for Triton quadruped and robot learning research inspired by how animals learn to move.
robot learningmanipulationlocomotionneuroscience-inspired robotssoft robots
Notable achievements
Triton quadruped, neuroscience-inspired motor control, underwater robotics, robot learning from video.
Notable work
Triton quadrupedNeuroscience-inspired control
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
MANIPULATION
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A hierarchical approach to imitation learning for manipulation tasks requiring time varying forces
Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
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Small-Signal Stability Manifolds in Converter-Dominated Power Systems
Francesco Conte, Fernando Mancilla-David, Federico Silvestro +1 more
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
How VLAs Fail Differently: Black-Box Action Monitoring Reveals Architecture-Specific Failure Signatures
Krishnam Gupta
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
What Frozen VLAs Already Know About Success: A Probing Study of Value-Like Structure in Foundation Robot Policies
Jiachen Zhang, Junnan Nie, Junyi Lao +4 more
2026
LOCOMOTION
Open access
Visualizing Latent Phase Structures in Locomotion Policies: A Multi-Environment Study with Temporal Feature Extension
Daisuke Yasui, Toshitaka Matuki, Hiroshi Sato
2026
LEARNING
Open access
Adversarial Dual On-Policy Distillation from Expressive Flow-based Teacher
Zhenglin Wan, Jingxuan Wu, Xingrui Yu +5 more
2026