Fabio Hübel
// embodied intelligence · mobile robotics
Hi! I'm Fabio, a robotics engineer working on embodied intelligence and mobile robotics. I'm currently starting my PhD at Stanford University in the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) with Marco Pavone, in close collaboration with UC Berkeley (S. Shankar Sastry's group). My current focus is the DARPA TIAMAT project. Before Stanford I earned my MSc at ETH Zürich, with research at ETH's Robotic Systems Lab and UZH's Robotics & Perception Group; my master's thesis, Bridging Agentic Reasoning and Structured Execution: A Behavior-Tree VLM Framework and a Fidelity-Ladder Benchmark for Embodied Agents (6.0), was carried out at Stanford. Earlier, a BSc in Cybernetic Engineering at the University of Stuttgart built my foundation in control theory and dynamical systems. My research centers on task-level autonomy, world modeling, and reinforcement learning, applied to mobile robotics and search & rescue.
FARM: Find Anything using Relational Spatial Memory
Real-time relational spatial memory for finding any object instance from natural-language queries, deployed on a quadruped. Stanford × UC Berkeley · under review at CoRL 2026.
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DARPA TIAMAT
Participation in DARPA TIAMAT at Stanford University.
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Learning-Based Reward Functions for Autonomous Navigation
Gradient path planner leveraging a learned forward dynamics model for ANYmal at RSL, ETH Zürich.
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RL Drone Racing with TD-MPC2
Deploying and adapting TD-MPC2 for autonomous drone racing at RPG, UZH. Beat Dreamer-V3 in sample efficiency.
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ETH RobotX Summer School 2025
Won the ETH RobotX challenge: fully autonomous exploration pipeline for a rover robot.
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Real World Robotics
Design, Control, Simulation and Behavioral Cloning on a Dexterous Tendon-driven Robotic Hand at SRL, ETH Zürich.
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