David Blanco-Mulero
I’m an Assistant Professor at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), in the ESAII department. Prior to UPC, I was a post-doc at IRI, CSIC-UPC and earned my Ph.D. from Aalto University in 2024, supervised by Prof. Ville Kyrki.
I’m interested in robotics and machine learning, with a special emphasis on learning for robotic manipulation of complex objects. Ultimately, my aim is to bridge the gap between research and real-world deployment of robots in order to assist people in everyday and professional settings.
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| Jul 01, 2026 | Great news!! I just started as Assistant Professor at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), in the ESAII department. |
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| May 01, 2026 | I’m co-organising the workshop “Beyond Rigidity - Deformable and Articulated Robotic Object Manipulation” at RSS2026 on articulated and deformable objects. |
| Apr 01, 2026 | I just finished a research visit of 3-months at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, DLR, working on foundation models and deformable object manipulation with João Silvério and Maximo A. Roa. |
