Russ Tedrake is the Toyota Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He leads the Robot Locomotion Group at CSAIL and works on planning, control, and learning for robots; his MIT page also notes he is founding a stealth startup in physical AI.12
At a glance
- Current role
- Toyota Professor of EECS, Aero/Astro, and MechE
- Company
- MIT
- Fields
- Robotics, Reinforcement learning
- Sources cited
- 2
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
- Toyota Professor at MIT; Robot Locomotion Group.1
MIT Robot Locomotion Group
Tedrake's CSAIL page lists him as Toyota Professor across EECS, Aero/Astro, and MechE, founding the Robot Locomotion Group with work on underactuated robotics, Drake software, and learning for control.12
Where they work
- MIT 33 people in the wiki
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2 sources · profile reviewed Oct 23, 2026 · data updated Oct 23, 2026