@dkanou

Professor in Robotics and AI, UKRI FLF at UCL CS (UK) and Archimedes/Athena RC (Greece)

 London, UK
dkanou.github.io/
Joined May 2009
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I am looking for a Postdoc to apply for my Encode Project: "Robotic 3D printing cannot robustly adapt to changing materials and conditions in real construction sites." If you are interested please apply and contact me (email is preferable to X dm).
Leah Eliz Morris@leahelizmorrisJul 20
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So we built the map. encode-challengescape.pillar…
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Ahmet Ercan Tekden@ErcanTekdenMay 29
Joint work with @dkanou, Aude Billard, and Yasemin Bekiroglu. Paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document… Project Page: fzaero.github.io/PNPF/ Colab: colab.research.google.com/dr… 8/8

Reactive Motion Generation via Phase-Varying Neural Potential Functions

Dynamical systems (DS) methods for Learning-from-Demonstration (LfD) provide stable, continuous policies from few demonstrations. First-order dynamical systems (DS) are effective for many point-to-...

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Follow Anything: Robots shouldn’t just follow humans—they should follow everything. Our #ICRA2026 paper introduces: Category-free leader tracking, Goal-aware adaptation, Graph-based planning 📊 +75.1% success💥 −65.1% collisions #Robotics #AI #Autonomy #LeggedRobots
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🎥 Webpage: follow-everything.github.io 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.19399
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Extremely proud of this work from my PhD students @JonEmbleyRiches and @JianweiLiu93!
Jonathan (Buzz) Embley-Riches@JonEmbleyRichesApr 7
Releasing the alpha of Unreal Robotics Lab — an open-source Unreal Engine plugin with full MuJoCo physics. Photorealistic rendering and accurate contact physics. No compromises on either side. GitHub: github.com/URLab-Sim/UnrealR… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.14135
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#UKRI FLF RoboHike team gets our new humanoid working from box to walking in just few minutes! Thanks to Michael, Hongbo, and Pako.
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We like dancing in the lab.. even without music!
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The Intelligent Robotics group of UCL East at IROS!
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It seems that we got a Best Paper Award #IROS2025 Workshop on Open World Navigation in Human-centric Environments! Congrats Jianhao and all! #UKRI FLF RoboHike
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I cannot be at IROS this year, and cannot deliver this invited talk in person, but here it is recorded... "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly:Robustness of Robots that have Limbs": youtu.be/FNlceacjduE Workshop on The Art of Robustness: Surviving Failures in Robotics #IROS2025

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Robustness of Robots that have Limbs

Prof. Dimitrios Kanoulas invited talk at the Workshop on The Art of...

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Zhenjun Zhao@zhenjun_zhao15 Oct 2025
UniGS: Unified Geometry-Aware Gaussian Splatting for Multimodal Rendering Yusen Xie, Zhenmin Huang, Jianhao Jiao, @dkanou, Jun Ma tl;dr: differentiable ray-ellipsoid intersection; analytical gradients; learnable attribute->prune Gaussians arxiv.org/abs/2510.12174
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3 #ICAR papers accepted and 6 #RITA papers accepted from the team. Well done! Soon the videos and papers...
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Very excited to present our work SDS – See it, Do it, Sorted: Quadruped Skill Synthesis from Single Video Demonstration at #CoRL2025! 🔗 Website: rpl-cs-ucl.github.io/SDSweb/ 🔗 Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=kbrb… 🔗 Code: github.com/RPL-CS-UCL/SDS 🔗 Video: youtube.com/watch?v=xfYENdnC…
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Off for the Greeks in AI at Athens. #greeksinai Link: greeksin.ai

Greeks In AI

Join the Greeks in AI 2026 Symposium on July 15-17 in Athens, Greece—connecting AI researchers, industry professionals, and innovators. Engage in knowledge exchange, collaboration, and discussions on...

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Extremely excited that two of my @ucl final year PhD students at @UCLEast, were named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list (#ForbesUnder30), Maria Stamatopoulou and Rokas Bendikas. I am lucky to be an advisor to the exciting Laelaps AI. Link: forbes.com/profile/laelaps-a…
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Welcome to the team G1!
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New robots at @UCL East!
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Meet the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award, Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton! They are recognized for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. Please join us in congratulating the two recipients! bit.ly/4hpdsbD
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"Watch your STEPP: Semantic Traversibility Estimation using Pose Projected Features" has been accepted to ICRA'25, by Sebastian Ægidius, Dennis Hadjivelichkov, Jianhao Jiao, Jonathan Embly-Riches, and Dimitrios Kanoulas Video: youtu.be/u9qci0h_ixk?si=DbUP…
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Autonomous robots struggle in complex, unstructured terrains—traditional methods like occupancy mapping just don’t cut it for legged robots. 📷📷 We take a different approach: learning terrain traversability from human walking demonstrations! 📷📷📷
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Check out our code & video demos online: rpl-cs-ucl.github.io/STEPP/
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Our model detects hazardous terrain (high error) vs. safe paths (low error), enabling anomaly detection for safer, smarter navigation. 📷📷 Tested on ANYbotics ANYmal indoors & outdoors, our method is real-world ready! 📷
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