Stelian Coros

“This paper solves a critical problem in tactile sim-to-real transfer — how to extract rich contact information from touch sensors without the signal collapsing when you move from simulation to hardware. The answer is a physics-grounded intermediate representation called Center-of-Pressure (CoP) that achieves zero-shot sim-to-real transfer on a 16-DOF hand doing precision manipulation, with no real-world training data required.”

“The cross-institutional collaboration between ETH's robotics group (Coros) and Berkeley's AI/robotics group (Malik, Lin) is notable — bringing together model-based robotics and RL-driven sim-to-real perspectives.”