🔬 University#4 Berkeley, CA, USA· Est. 1994
UC Berkeley — Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) & Robotics
Global leader in robot learning and reinforcement learning for robotics. Berkeley's DexNet grasp planning system and deep RL for manipulation have transformed how robots learn from data.
robot learningreinforcement learningmanipulationperceptionsim-to-real
Notable achievements
DexNet grasp planning, Dactyl predecessor research, robot learning from demonstrations, Brett the robot, RT-2 collaboration with Google.
Notable work
DexNetBRETTDeepMimicRL for locomotion
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
MANIPULATION
Open access
Robotic Strawberry Harvesting with Robust Vision and Deep Reinforcement Learning based Sim-to-Real Control
Al Bashir, Shao-Yang Chang, Partho Ghose +3 more
2026
LEARNING
Open access
Vision-Based Agile Landing on Turbulent Waters
Dimosthenis Angelis, Leonard Bauersfeld, Davide Scaramuzza +1 more
2026
OTHER
Open access
Droneulator: A Portable UAV Simulator for Agricultural Workflows with RotorPy and Godot 4
Jacob Swindell, Michael Lowen, Marija Popovic +1 more
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
Agentic-VLA: Efficient Online Adaptation for Vision-Language-Action Models
Ruofan Jin, Zaixi Zhang
2026
OTHER
Open access
NeuroNL2LTL: A Neurosymbolic Framework for Natural Language Translation of Linear Temporal Logic
Paapa Kwesi Quansah, Ernest Bonnah
2026