Schedule

Physical AIFall 2026

Study sheet

How robots learn to do what humans do with arms and legs, and foundation models help them perceive and plan.

Advisor
Prof. Sangwoo Mo Prof. Sangwoo MoPOSTECH IME
Student Representative
Jian Choi Jian Choichjohn1105 [at] postech.ac.kr
Location & Time

Science Building 4, Room 302

Tuesdays 21:00 – 22:00 KST

  1. 01 · Sessions 1–6
    Robot Embodiment How robot tasks mirror human abilities: arms that grasp, legs that walk, a sense of where to go, and humanoid bodies with dexterous hands, all learned from data.
  2. 02 · Sessions 7–11
    Foundation Models for Robotics How foundation models help robots act: an understanding of 3D space, vision and language turned into action, and world models that bring perception and planning.

See also Berkeley CS 294-277 Robots That Learn (Spring 2026) and Berkeley CS 294-43 Large Scale Vision, Language, and Action Models (Fall 2025).

#DateTopicPapersDemoPresentersSlidesLab
1 Data sourcesteleoperation, simulation, human video 최지안, 김하은 PDF 1, 2Lab
2 Manipulationimitation learning, action chunking, diffusion policy 김재원, 고정윤 PDF 1, 2
3 Locomotionprivileged information, proprioception, exteroception 진동환, 정윤 PDF 1, 2Lab
4 Navigationgoal-conditioned navigation, topological map, SLAM 이수겸, 유소은 PDF 1, 2
5 Humanoidwhole-body control, motion retargeting, tracking 최원준, 윤서현 PDF 1, 2
6 Dexterous manipulationin-hand manipulation, visuo-tactile 이지윤, 윤서현 PDF 1, 2
7 3D representationray tracing, rasterization 안준서, 김태하
8 3D reconstructionmulti-view geometry, feed-forward 3D 김나령, 이유찬
9 Spatial reasoningvisual grounding, affordance 최진현, 김태경
10 VLAvision-language-action, action tokenization, flow matching 최지안, 정윤
11 World modelmodel-based RL, latent dynamics 진동환, 신예원
A1 OptionalRLpolicy gradient, on-policy, off-policy
A2 OptionalSim-to-realdomain randomization, system identification
A3 OptionalControloptimal control, MPC
A4 Optional3D data structurespoint cloud, voxel, mesh, surfel