Moritz Bächer

Moritz Bächer is Associate Lab Director for Robotics at Disney Research in Zurich, where he leads the Computational Design and Manufacturing group and directs the lab's program on model- and learning-based design, control, and autonomy for robotic characters. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a master's degree from ETH Zurich. Over more than a decade at Disney Research, Bächer has been a central figure in physical character animation and robotics, and is a senior co-author of CoCo-InEKF, a 2026 paper on state estimation with learned contact covariances for dynamic, contact-rich scenarios.