Moritz Graule
Moritz Graule is a Staff AI and Robotics Engineer at Figure AI, where he leads the Helix Controls Team responsible for the company's neural network-based full-body locomotion and manipulation controller. He holds a PhD from Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, with prior research experience at MIT and Samsung Research America. He is best known for leading Figure's transition from model-based control to reinforcement learning, including the Helix controller's zero-shot sim-to-real deployment and the Project Vulcan demonstration of fault-tolerant walking under joint failure.
“About a year ago, we made a strong pivot away from code into neural networks... I think the team has probably shown like, I think some of the best neural networks for control in the world on humanoids.”
Source→“Moritz, can you show her what would happen if we lost like a left knee?... This is kudos to the controls team. I think we have like one of the best controls team in the world.”
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