Aaron Chou

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📍 Tokyo Warner Bros. Studio · 📷 by my girlfriend Peggy <3

I am a first-year MRSD student in the Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University. I have 2.5 years of industry experience spanning robotic manipulation (UMI/Diffusion Policy), quadruped robotics (vision-language navigation, learned locomotion policy selection, learning-based control), 3D reconstruction (3DGS), sensor fusion, and autonomous mobile robots for warehouse logistics.

Drawing on my experience with UMI data collection and 3DGS reconstruction for robotic navigation, I aim to scale robot data with minimal human effort (e.g., my capstone on learning humanoid manufacturing tasks from human video), or to learn generalizable, reusable skills from a single demonstration.

Previously, I obtained my B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University.

news

September, 2026 Started my MRSD capstone: Learning Manufacturing Tasks from Video on Humanoid Robots!
June, 2026 I joined Stealth AI Startup as a Robotics Research Intern, working on UMI and Diffusion Policy!
May, 2026 Our paper VL-N3RD-Bench is accepted to ICRA 2026 VLA Pipelines Workshop!
March, 2026 I will join CMU MRSD in Fall 2026!
January, 2026 Our paper Feasibility-Guided Planning over Multi-Specialized Locomotion Policies is accepted to ICRA 2026!
March, 2025 I joined Inventec as a Robotics Research Engineer!

selected publications

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    Feasibility-Guided Planning over Multi-Specialized Locomotion Policies
    Ying-Sheng Luo*, Lu-Ching Wang*, Hanjaya Mandala*, Yu-Lun Chou*, and 5 more authors
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026
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    VL-N3RD-Bench: Benchmarking Vision-Language Navigation with 3D Gaussian Splatting Reconstruction for Deployment
    Yu-Lun Chou*, Lu-Ching Wang*, Ying-Sheng Luo*, and 2 more authors
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Workshop: From Data to Decisions: VLA Pipelines for Real Robots, 2026