Roberto Calandra
Full (W3) Professor at Kyber Labs
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolRoberto Calandra is a Full (W3) Professor and founder of the Learning, Adaptive Systems, and Robotics (LASR) Lab at Technische Universität Dresden, combining 11 years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, robotics, and tactile sensing. He led robotic research at Facebook AI, where he founded the Menlo Park lab and developed the widely adopted DIGIT tactile sensor that was commercialized with GelSight. His work spans academia and industry—from a BAIR postdoc at UC Berkeley to research roles at Microsoft and Aalto—bringing both deep Bayesian and robot-learning expertise to practical robotic systems. Based in Dresden, he advises startups like Kyber Labs while driving research that blends perception, touch, and adaptive control. Known for turning novel sensing ideas into broadly used tools, he bridges foundational ML methods and real-world robotic applications.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität DarmstadtMaster’s Degree Machine Learning and Data Mining, Master’s Degree Machine Learning and Data Mining at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolanHigh School, High School at Istituto Don Bosco Ranchibile di PalermoBachelor’s Degree Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science Engineering at Università degli Studi di Palermo
Finnish, German, Italian, English
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Github Skills (51)
ieee10
cnc-controller10
sensor10
reinforcement-learning9
digit9
simulator9
simulation9
computer-graphics9
robot9
gazebo-simulator9
yarp9
computer-vision8
gaussian-processes8
mujoco8
bayesian-statistics7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bayesopt/bayesopt.github.io
Sep 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:65 commits, 67 pushes in 1 year 10 months
bayesopt
facebookresearch/digit-interface
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
Python interface for the DIGIT tactile sensor
Contributions:7 commits, 7 pushes, 3 comments in 7 months
python
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