Carmelo Sferrazza
Carmelo (Carlo) Sferrazza is a roboticist and senior applied scientist at Amazon Frontiers AI and Robotics (FAR), where he works on humanoid loco-manipulation and perceptive policies. He is also an incoming assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin and was previously a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley under Pieter Abbeel. He earned his Ph.D. from ETH Zurich under Raffaello D'Andrea, focusing on vision-based tactile sensing and dexterous manipulation. He is known for his work on humanoid robot learning, including projects such as HumanoidBench, the Body Transformer, and Perceptive Humanoid Parkour.
“Industry co-author from Amazon's frontier AI division; his participation signals that this line of research has direct industrial interest from a major robotics deployer”
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