Agile Robot Control and Design (ARCAD) Lab

Our Mission

ARCAD Lab’s mission is to achieve highly dynamic, contact-intelligent and efficient motions on legged robots through a synergistic view across both hardware and software, where the robot leverages its inherent dynamics, while exploiting contact with the environment autonomously. We cultivate full-stack robotists who build hardware and software stacks that complement each other. Our goal is to enable robots to achieve athletics and energetics comparable to humans and animals, realizing dynamic locomotion and whole-body loco-manipulation in the real world.