Antonio Arbues

I am a roboticist interested in building robots to do what people should not be doing.

I recently started Loki, to automate cleaning tasks and free people's time.

In 2024, I completed with distinction my Master's in Robotics, Systems, and Control at ETH Zurich, working with RSL on my thesis on Terra, a scalable RL simulator for high-level excavation planning.

Alongside my studies, I spent two years at AMZ Racing, where I led the software team building the autonomy stack of a fully custom self-driving car. I also interned for a semester at Motional where I focused on building a multi-actor e2e model for autonomous driving.

Lastly, in 2024 I started Seamless, an LLM-based tool that helped more than 15.000 student to get their research done, and sold the business after 3 months.

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Terra is a flexible and abstracted grid world environment for training intelligent agents in the context of earthworks planning. It makes it possible to approach motion and excavation high-level planning as a reinforcement learning problem, providing a multi-GPU JAX-accelerated environment. We achieve SOTA results in the task.

We demonstrate how a careful layering of an LLM in combination with a Model Predictive Control (MPC) formulation allows for accurate and flexible robotic control for contact-rich manipulation tasks via natural language while taking into consideration safety constraints.

I led the software team building the autonomy stack of our custom self-driving car. Most of my time was spent on keeping the team focused on our priorities and debugging software in perception, estimation, control, infrastructure, and hardware integration.

Seamless is a tool that leverages LLMs to help researchers and students find the most relevant papers for their literature review. Shipped in late 2023, it has been used more than 65.000 times by more than 15.000 people from all over the world.