Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory at UCLA

Los Angeles, CA
Joined June 2009
We shall send our #ARTEMIS humanoid robot to avenge…
A humanoid robot attacked me and it didn’t even say sorry… (Learn some manners before learning kung fu…) #Unitree #G1 #RobotUprising #ieee #iros2025
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RoMeLa wins the Mike Stilman Best Paper Award at the 2025 IEEE Humanoids Conference! 🏆🤖👏👏👏 Congratulations to our team! @RoMeLaUCLA @UCLAengineering
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8 presentations with 7 papers and a robot demo/exhibit at #IEEE #Humanoids 2025! See ya there!
We have 8 presentations with 7 papers and a robot demo/exhibit at #IEEE #Humanoids 2025! (September 30 – October 2, 2025 , COEX, Seoul, Korea) * “ARTEMIS: An Open-Source, Full-Sized Humanoid Robot for Dynamic Locomotion,” T. Zhu, M. Ahn, D. Hong (Continued…)
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It’s move-in week @UCLA! Wishing our #Bruin engineers a smooth transition, especially if you don’t have an ARTEMIS robot from UCLA’s Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory @RoMeLaUCLA led by @DennisHongRobot to help you! #engineerchange #backtoschool #Humanoid #robot
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[ARTEMIS Goes Open Source: And a Different Path] Announcing at Humanoids 2025! 2025 IEEE-RAS 24th International Conference on Humanoid Robots September 30 – October 2, 2025 | COEX, Seoul, Korea
[ARTEMIS Goes Open Source: And a Different Path] ARTEMIS was a humanoid robot developed at RoMeLa. Today, all of ARTEMIS’s key members — except myself — are at Tesla, building Optimus.
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🤖 SCALER: Spine-enhanced Climbing Autonomous Limbed Exploration Robot
How can a robot climb on ceilings and bouldering walls? Meet SCALER: a multi-limbed climber w ith 7 grasp modes and a torso actuation for robotic free-climbing. Our paper’s been accepted to IEEE TRO! 🔗 ieeexplore.ieee.org/document… #Robotics #Climbing #TRO
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Back to soccer practice. It’s been a while… 🤖⚽️ #autonomous #humanoid #robot #ARTEMIS @RoMeLaUCLA
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Welcome back ARTEMIS 🤖 #ARTEMIS #humanoid #robot @RoMeLaUCLA
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🇪🇸👑 Such an honor to meet and chat with his Majesty the King of Spain! 🙏🤩
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🤖 META Robotics visits RoMeLa That was fun! Humanoids FTW! #META #robotics #RoMeLa #humanoid @RoMeLaUCLA @Meta
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Yay! 2 years in a row!! 😎🏆🏆 #IEEE #ICRA2025
🏆🥇🏆🥇 RoMeLa wins 2 awards at the IEEE ICRA2025 conference (again)! * ICRA Best Expo Award * ICRA Arts in Robotics Best Presentation Award Congratulations to all! #IEEE #ICRA2025 #ArtsInRoboticsBestPresentationAward #BestExpoAward #RoMeLa #robot @UCLAengineering @RoMeLaUCLA
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RoMeLa’s COSMO and BALLU joins the robot gang at ICRA2025
All robots, roll out! No humans allowed! ICRA2025 Robot Parade!! 🤖❤️ #IEEE #ICRA2925 #RobotParade #Robots #RoMeLa #COSMO #BALLU @RoMeLaUCLA @ieee_ras_icra
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Whimsical and beautiful! 🤖❤️🤗
RoMeLa’s first robotic art piece debuted today at ICRA2025. “Buoyant Choreographies: Harmonies of Light, Sound, and Human Connection”
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Geek joke… 😅
Our robot's walk isn't weird—it's just exploring an under-sampled region of latent space. 😆🤣🤪 @RoMeLaUCLA
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We are bringing our robots for live demos, too! 🤖 Come check us out at @ICRA2025 in Atlanta!
Check out our 6 presentation and demos at #ICRA2025 We will bring some of our robots to show live demos, too! 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation, 19–23 May, Atlanta, USA @RoMeLaUCLA @ieee_ras_icra
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🤖 Another approach to make COSMO walk and ‘act’ is to use reinforcement learning, policy training with randomized commands in simulation. @RoMeLaUCLA
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It’s HARRI the robot! 🤗 Don’t miss the funny bloopers at the end… 😅
HARRI: High-speed Adaptive Robot for Robust Interactions @RoMeLaUCLA
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“Here we go~” 💛🤖
How to make a fictional robot with a design not ideal for bipedal locomotion walk in real life 🤖 @RoMeLaUCLA @netflix #ElectricState #TheElectricState #KidCOSMO #COSMO #Humanoid #Robot #BipedalLocomotion #Netflix #RoMeLa #코스모 #휴머노이드 #로봇 #로멜라
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How to make COSMO walk? 💛🤖 Towards Generalist Motor Skills for Humanoids with Diverse Embodiments #TheElectricState #ElectricState #RoMeLa #humanoid #Arturo #End2EndLearning #Sim2Real
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