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Assistant professor, @Cornell_CS. Learning, perception, and control for building more dynamic robots.

Cambridge, MA
Joined August 2019
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Preston Culbertson retweeted
Thank you everyone for an amazing event! Looking forward to next year's NERC at Princeton! #NERC2025
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Preston Culbertson retweeted
Just over one week until registration closes for NERC! Register by next Friday, Oct 3, to join us in Ithaca next month. 🎟️events.ces.scl.cornell.edu/e…
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Preston Culbertson retweeted
Just one month until NERC 2025! Come to Cornell on Oct 11 for a full day of cutting-edge robotics research and community. 📍 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 🗓️ Oct 11, 2025 🎟️ Register by Oct 11: events.ces.scl.cornell.edu/e…
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Preston Culbertson retweeted
Update: Due to an OpenReview outage, the NERC submission deadline will be extended by one day, to tomorrow, Wed Sep 3 at 11:59pm ET. Looking forward to reviewing your submissions!
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Preston Culbertson retweeted
Come to our NeRF-Shop today at #ICRA22! We may have some live demos 😊
We're excited to announce our @ieee_ras_icra workshop "Motion Planning with Implicit Neural Representations of Geometry!" We'll discuss the future of INRs -- like DeepSDFs, NeRFs, and more -- in robotics. Submissions due April 15. neural-implicit-workshop.sta…
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Preston Culbertson retweeted
Check out our paper “Vision-Only Robot Navigation in a Neural Radiance World” at #ICRA2022! Come learn how to use NeRFs for trajectory optimization, state estimations, and MPC. We’ll be presenting at 4:15pm on Thursday in Room 124! More info: mikh3x4.github.io/nerf-navig…
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Preston Culbertson retweeted
Excited to share our new work on vision-only navigation using NeRFs! We show how to use a pre-trained NeRF to both represent collision geometry and localize a robot with an onboard camera. Project page: mikh3x4.github.io/nerf-navig… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2110.00168
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Preston Culbertson retweeted
Wanna solve combinatorial optimization for robot control very fast? Check out our work with @ACauligi, @pdculbert, @dbertsim, MSchwager, @MarcoPavoneSU @StanfordAILab! arxiv.org/abs/2004.03736 We extended our work with @dbertsim (MLOPT) to learn fast optimizers for robotic tasks