Carmelo Sferrazza
Carmelo Sferrazza earned his ETH Zurich doctorate in 2021 with Raffaello D’Andrea. He developed data-driven tactile sensors based on vision for robot control and dexterous manipulation. Sferrazza coauthored Demonstrating MuJoCo Playground, which combines simulation, rendering and training environments for robot learning. The coauthored project received RSS’s Outstanding Demo Paper Award. Sferrazza joined Amazon Frontiers AI and Robotics in August 2025. He researches whole-body manipulation, high-dimensional control and multisensory reasoning, and is an incoming ETH professor.
Timeline
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2021
Tactile sensing doctorate
Carmelo Sferrazza earned his ETH Zurich doctorate in 2021 with Raffaello D’Andrea. He developed data-driven tactile sensors based on vision for robot control and dexterous manipulation.
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2025
MuJoCo Playground
Sferrazza coauthored Demonstrating MuJoCo Playground, which combines simulation, rendering and training environments for robot learning. The coauthored project received RSS’s Outstanding Demo Paper Award.
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August 2025 and later
Humanoid research
Sferrazza joined Amazon Frontiers AI and Robotics in August 2025. He researches whole-body manipulation, high-dimensional control and multisensory reasoning, and is an incoming ETH professor.
Sources and credits
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