Philipp Wu

Philipp Wu

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Co-Founder and CEO
Berkeley, California, United States

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  • Startup
    Co-Founder
    Startup
    Oct 2024 - Current (1 year 10 months)
  • Meta
    Student Researcher
    Meta
    Jul 2022 - Aug 2024 (2 years 2 months)
    Multimodal Robot Foundation Models
  • Covariant
    Research Engineer
    Covariant
    Jun 2019 - Jan 2022 (2 years 8 months)
    Robot learning for logistics and warehouse robotics.
  • UC Berkeley College of Engineering
    EE106A/EE206A Undegraduate Student Instructor
    UC Berkeley College of Engineering
    Aug 2018 - Dec 2018 (5 months)
    I am Teacher Assistant for EE106A/EE206A Introduction to Robotics, an advanced undergraduate and intro graduate course on robotics under Professor Ruzena Bajcsy. I teach labs, helping students bridge the gap between theory learned in lecture and practical robotics applications working with real hardware. In addition, I assist in lab development on homogeneous transforms, dynamics for robot manipulators, AR tags, etc. and received the highest percent ratings for teaching effectiveness.
  • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
    Computer Vision Intern
    NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
    Jun 2018 - Aug 2018 (3 months)
    I worked on 3D scene construction, stereo vision, and structured light algorithms for underwater mobile manipulation tasks on the Aquasimian manipulator. See “Reduced Backscatter for 3D Scene Reconstruction for Turbid Underwater Environments”.
  • Space Technologies At California STAC
    Director Of Engineering
    Space Technologies At California STAC
    Nov 2016 - May 2018 (1 year 7 months)
    Co-founded the student organization STAC. Helped grow and lead the club to 70+ members across 6 different projects. Worked closely with NASA Ames on the autonomous rover team to create a Gazebo simulation of a moon environment. Developing classical and neural control schemes for the rover. Oversaw the development of the various projects including: microgravity experiment payload (to be launched on Blue Origins, New Shephard Spacecraft); High Altitude Balloon (a near space experiment platform); CUBE satellite deployer and more.
  • R
    Researcher
    Robot Learning Lab
    Sep 2016 - Current (9 years 11 months)
    I research robot control under Professor Pieter Abbeel. My research is involved with creating a low cost, human-safe, human-sized, compliant 7 degree of freedom robotic arm, called Blue. Applications include assistive home care, deep reinforcement learning, imitation learning and grasping. I built the ROS control architecture and software interface for Blue from the ground up (includes writing and testing controllers for the system). I worked on a collaboration with the AUTOLAB, headed under Ken Goldberg, on autonomous grasping for Blue. We are integrating Dex-Net, their grasp quality convolutional neural network (GQCNN), with Blue. I also developed a robot dynamics and kinematics model and a Gazebo simulator for testing control algorithms
  • R
    Undergraduate Researcher
    Robot Learning Lab
    Sep 2016 - Dec 2019 (3 years 4 months)
    I research robot control under Professor Pieter Abbeel. My research is involved with creating a low cost, human-safe, human-sized, compliant 7 degree of freedom robotic arm, called Blue. Applications include assistive home care, deep reinforcement learning, imitation learning and grasping. I built the ROS control architecture and software interface for Blue from the ground up (includes writing and testing controllers for the system). I worked on a collaboration with the AUTOLAB, headed under Ken Goldberg, on autonomous grasping for Blue. We are integrating Dex-Net, their grasp quality convolutional neural network (GQCNN), with Blue. I also developed a robot dynamics and kinematics model and a Gazebo simulator for testing control algorithms
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  • UC Berkeley College of Engineering
    Ph.D., Computer Science, Computer Science
    UC Berkeley College of Engineering
    Aug 2021 - Dec 2024 (3 years 5 months)
  • UC Berkeley College of Engineering
    Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    UC Berkeley College of Engineering
    Jan 2015 - Dec 2019 (5 years)
  • UC Berkeley College of Engineering
    Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
    UC Berkeley College of Engineering
    Jan 2015 - Dec 2019 (5 years)
  • L
    High School
    La Canada High School
    Jan 2010 - Dec 2015 (6 years)
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  • U
    Warren Y. Dere Design Award
    UC Berkeley EECS Departmenet
    May 2019
    This award is presented to graduating seniors whose accomplishments in engineering design are judged to be most outstanding. Evidence might include accomplishments during a co-op or internship assignment or on a summer job, or achievements on a project for an upper division design course. This memorial award honors Professor Dere who also worked at IBM and was known to be outstanding in engineering systems design. https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Students/Awards/4/
  • National Science Foundation
    National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
    National Science Foundation
    Apr 2019
  • UC Berkeley
    Quantedge Award for Academic Excellence
    UC Berkeley
    The Quantedge Award for Academic Excellence for seniors is awarded to recognize exceptional sustained academic excellence among senior students (i.e. those who have completed at least 90 units) with a GPA of 4.0 at the University of California, Berkeley.
Publications verified_user 0% verified
  • ICRA
    Robust and Low-Cost Gripper Design for AI-Based Robotic Manipulation
    ICRA
    Design for low-cost AI application focused gripper.
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    Quasi-Direct Drive for Low-Cost Compliant Robotic Manipulation
    ICRA RAL
    Details of the quasi-direct drive paradigm for a robotic manipulator.
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