Pedro Morais

I currently work at Agility Robotics as a Robotics Software Engineer. My work at Agility has spanned a variety of topics from manifold optimization, whole body inverse kinematics, reinforcement learning, contact simulation, subsystem modeling and perception simulation. I currently am on the Simulation team.

Before joining Agility I was an undergrad at Oregon State University where I did research on bipedal locomotion coadvised by Jonathan Hurst and Alan Fern. At OSU I spearheaded the transition of the Dynamic Robotics Laboratory from a hardware focused research group to a software and controls focused group with some of the earliest sim-to-real reinforcement learning results for bipedal running.

My interests broadly lie in the intersection of optimization, simulation and end-to-end control of agile and dexterous humanoid robots.