Will Thibault

Humanoid Robotics Researcher

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I am humanoid robotics researcher and PhD student at the University of Waterloo. I am a member of the CERC in HCRMI (Canada Excellence Research Chair in Human-Centred Robotics and Machine Intelligence) lab under the co-supervision of Katja Mombaur and William Melek. My research focuses on humanoid whole-body motion generation and control using combined model-based and model-free approaches with REEM-C and TALOS humanoid robots by PAL Robotics.

My goal is to have a career in humanoid robotics research in the area of whole-body motion and loco-manipulation. Humanoid robots offer the unique ability to operate in human designed spaces and I hope to use them to solve real-world problems.

selected publications

  1. Learning Skateboarding for Humanoid Robots through Massively Parallel Reinforcement Learning
    Thibault, W., Rajendran, V., Melek, W., and Mombaur, K.
    Accepted at the 40th Anniversary of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA@40). 2024
  2. Learning Velocity-based Humanoid Locomotion: Massively Parallel Learning with Brax and MJX
    Thibault, W., Melek, W., and Mombaur, K.
    International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR 2024). 2024