Columbia University RoboPIL Lab

The Columbia University RoboPIL (Robot Perception, Interaction, and Learning) Lab, led by PI Yunzhu Li, is an academic robotics research laboratory at Columbia University that focuses on enabling robots to perceive, model, and act on complex physical environments through learned representations, neural dynamics models, diffusion-based policies, and multimodal sensing. The lab publishes research at top venues such as NeurIPS, CoRL, and RSS, with work spanning dexterous manipulation, 3D scene representations, language-conditioned control, and deformable material handling.