Kenneth Shaw

Kenneth Shaw is a PhD student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Professor Deepak Pathak. He is best known for creating the LEAP Hand, a series of low-cost, open-source, highly dexterous robotic hands that have become widely used in dexterous manipulation research. His research integrates mechanical design with machine learning, leveraging human demonstrations and simulation to teach robotic hands complex manipulation skills. He is also a co-author on the FACTR project on force-attending curriculum training for contact-rich policy learning.