Roy Xing

BMO wearing a yellow raincoat and splashing in a puddle. — Figure 1. A kind robot, BMO.

Hello! I'm a PhD student in computer science at Dartmouth College. My research is currently advised by Dr. Brian Plancher in the A²R Lab. I am grateful to have worked with Dr. John Baillieul and Dr. Jonathan Hurst in the past.

I am interested in creating the equivalent of a motor cortex for our robotic systems! How should high-level reasoning interact with and become physical movement for embodied intelligence? I love movement and the beautiful expressions that can emerge from motion. My ultimate goal is to create a kind robot, like BMO in Figure 1. Feel free to ask me more about what that actually means and entails!

In my free time, I'm an art history dilettante who enjoys reading, building robots, and spending as much quality time as I can with loved ones. Feel free to reach out if you want to chat!

Updates

Oct 2026Going to NERC to present MPC-Injection. See you in Princeton!
Sept 2026MPC-Injection was accepted to CoRL 2026! See you in Austin, TX!
Sept 2026I'm volunteering at RoboBoston 2026 again this year. See you there!
June 2026My Project EDGE proposal was selected! The A²R Lab will have a new humanoid!
May 2026I'm volunteering at the Robotics Summit & Expo again this year. See you there!
May 2026Just wrapped up the first Dartmouth Autonomy Seminar Series!
April 2025I was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!