Ashton Larkin

I'm a robotics PhD student at the University of Utah, advised by Tucker Hermans. I'm also a CSGrad4US fellow.

I'm interested in leveraging planning, learning and optimization to enhance dexterity in robot manipulators. I'm excited about trajectory optimization, in-hand manipulation, bimanual manipulation, and contact-rich tasks like assembly and deformable object manipulation.

Before my PhD, I was a software engineer at Open Robotics, Intrinsic, and PickNik Robotics, and a visiting researcher at The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. I received my bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brigham Young University in 2019.

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