Pedro Morais

I currently work as a Staff Research Scientist at Boston Dynamics on the Atlas dexterous manipulation team.

Prior to joining Boston Dynamics I worked for 7 years at Agility Robotics where I was one of the first 20 employees and worked on a variety of topics spanning manifold optimization, whole body inverse kinematics, reinforcement learning, contact simulation, subsystem modeling and perception simulation.

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 learning and control of agile and dexterous humanoid robots.