Philippe Nadeau

I envision a future where robots will have the ability to interact intelligently and safely with their environment using perception, prior knowledge, common sense and reasoning. A wise usage of these robots, combined with foresighted politics, will reduce socio-economic inequalities and our environmental footprint.

My interests lie at the intersection of perception and planning with an emphasis on fast and general algorithms deployed on real robots in human-centric environments. I am particularly interested in enhancing the autonomy of mobile manipulators and collaborative robots in object handling tasks.

I am now a Professor of Robotics and AI at the École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), where I lead CRIMPS, focused on Control, Robotics, and AI for Manipulating Physical Systems.

I earned my Bachelor degree from ÉTS in the Department of Systems Engineering, where I was enrolled in Automated Manufacturing Engineering, focusing on industrial robotics, mechatronics and control. I then joined the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) where I completed a PhD in robotics with the STARS Laboratory directed by Prof. Jonathan Kelly.

Previously, I had the chance to perform research in many incredible laboratories such as the Control and Robotics (CoRo) laboratory at ETS with Prof. Vincent Duchaine, the Embodied Dexterity Group (EDG) at UC Berkeley with Prof. Hannah Stuart, the Orthopedics and Imaging Laboratory (LIO) at ETS with Prof. Rachid Aissaoui and the STARS Laboratory at the University of Toronto with Prof. Jonathan Kelly.