Super excited to announce our full-day workshop on Contact-Rich Control and Representation (CR2) at hashtag#ICRA2026, held on June 1st in Vienna, Austria! 🕸️ Website: For all information, please check out: cr2-icra.github.io

Super excited to be starting the spring semester in a new job as an associate professor of AeroAstro at MIT @mitaeroastro.bsky.social. I'm teaching Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control, which I'll be posting online if anyone wants to follow along: github.com/zacmancheste...

Talking about our lab's recent smallsat missions at the AI4SPACE workshop at ISpaRo in Sendai, Japan

PhD student Fausto Vega presenting his work on collision avoidance maneuver planning for spacecraft at the ISpaRo conference in Sendai. This work is super nice because we found a convex optimization formulation of the problem that comes with safety, performance, and convergence guarantees.

Recent PhD grad Mitch Fogelson presenting results from our ZeroG flight testing complex spinning deployable structures and validating our Dojo simulator

🎉Excited to share that our paper was a finalist for best paper at #HRI2025! We introduce MOE-Hair, a soft robot system for hair care 💇🏻💆🏼 that uses mechanical compliance and visual force sensing for safe, comfortable interaction. Check our work: moehair.github.io @cmurobotics.bsky.social 🧵1/7

Congrats to all the undergrad, MS, and PhD students who contributed to this from @cmurobotics.bsky.social, @istecnico.bsky.social, and @uminho.bsky.social over the past two years!

🚀 Co-Optimizing Robots for Performance 🚀 🌟 CAPO: A scalable optimization method: ✅ Jointly optimizes actuators & control traj. ✅ Scales to complex systems ✅ Finds robust, efficient designs 🏋️ Tested on: 🚁 Multirotors 🛰️ Space structures 🧥 Cloth 🐟 Soft robots 📄 rexlab.ri.cmu.edu/papers/CAPO_...

End of an era as Kevin Tracy defends his PhD. Kevin has been with the lab since the very beginning at Stanford, through the move to CMU. He's done amazing optimization-based control work with applications spanning aerospace and robotics and it has been an absolute pleasure working with him.

Great talk by @ibrassow at #iSpaRo in Luxembourg on our autonomous soft capture work for rendezvous with tumbling satellites or debris:

The lab has 4 papers at ICRA this year @ieee_ras_icra: 1) TinyMPC: Model-Predictive Control on Microcontrollers 2) SLoMo: Legged Robot Motion Imitation from Casual Videos 3) VINSat: Visual-Inertial Navigation for Satellites 4) ReLU-QP: A GPU-Accelerated QP solver for MPC

Sam presenting TinyMPC at ICRA 2024 in Yokohama. Read the paper and give it a try:

Our balance-beam-walking quadruped was featured in @PopSci and @IEEESpectrum. Awesome work by Chi Yen Lee, @ShuoYangRobot, and Ben Boksor:

Jacob Willis presenting @IEEEAeroConf. Check out the paper if you're into spacecraft proximity operations or formation flying

We're so excited to be selected by @NASA for a Phase II NIAC award for our work on large expanding space structures with @lab_robotics

Join us tomorrow at 1:00 PM EDT for the next keynote talk from our workshop on real-time optimal control from Aaron Johnson @CMUEngineering @RoboticsSciSys. More info:

The first 2 keynote talks from our workshop on real-time optimal control @RoboticsSciSys are now online: