Prof. Ludovic Righetti — Research Profile
Graduate application deadlines
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Tandon School of Engineering)
PhD in Mechanical Engineering
Fall 2027Application deadline
Dec 1, 2026
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Fall 2027Priority deadline
Dec 1, 2026
Application deadline
Feb 15, 2027
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Prof. Ludovic Righetti at New York University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Tandon School of Engineering) lists Robotics and applications, optimal control, reinforcement learning, robotics societal/ethical issues, legged robots, robotic manipulation as their registered research area.
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Recent papers
- MABEL: An Open Anthropomorphic Mobile Bimanual Platform for Teleoperation and LearningNewPreprintarXiv (Cornell University) · Nov 2
- Task-Space Motion-Force Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Precise and Compliant Control under UncertaintiesPreprintarXiv (Cornell University) · Oct 12
- FLEX-WAM: Flexible Block-Causal World-Action Models for Long-Horizon Imagination and PlanningPreprintarXiv (Cornell University) · Oct 4
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