About me
I am a passionate roboticist and AI researcher.
Currently, I am pursuing a PhD in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University at the roBot Intelligence Group (BIG). I focus my research on the field of Robotic Learning facilitated by multimodal human-robot interaction and self-supervised learning.
My previous projects and research encompass the fields of autonomous systems, AI, Robotics, and electronics. I invite you to check my Portfolio and Publications.
During my bachelor’s in mechatronics engineering at University of São Paulo (USP) I have led the Projects Division of the university’s Artificial Intelligence group (Grupo Turing), led the technical development of an autonomous drone for international competition, researched distributed sensing systems, and conducted several extracurricular projects in the fields of robotics and AI. Still as an undergrad, I published 2 papers at ICRA 2021 on autonomous aerial cinematography (as 1st and 2nd author)
During my master studies at TUM, I have led a research partnership between Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) and Microsoft Research. The project focused on the field of Natural-language-facilitated Human-Robot-Interaction, and achieved 2 publications at IROS 2022 and ICRA 2023. Both as first author.
Since 2020, I am a fellow at the Fundação Estudar Leaders Program, a Merit scholarship program for students with outstanding trajectory and academic potential (24 selected out of 40,000+ applicants), and a recipient of the AUCANI merit scholarship. In 2024 became a recipient of the TCS Presidential Fellowship.
Recent publications:
| Grounding Robot Policies with Visuomotor Language Guidance Arthur Bucker, Pablo Ortega-Kral, Jonathan Francis, Jean Oh Published in preprint | ICLR 2025 (under review) |
| Windows Agent Arena Rogerio Bonatti, Dan Zhao, Francesco Bonacci, Dillon Dupont, Sara Abdali, Yinheng Li, Yadong Lu, Justin Wagle, Kazuhito Koishida, Arthur Bucker, Lawrence Jang, Zack Hui Published in Neurips 2024 Workshop on Safe & Trustworthy Agents (SATA) | Neurips 2024 Workshop on Open-World Agents | ICLR 2025 (under review) |
| LATTE: LAnguage Trajectory TransformEr Arthur Bucker, Luis Figueredo, Sami Haddadin, Ashish Kapoor, Shuang Ma, Sai Vemprala, Rogerio Bonatti Published in ICRA2023 | NeurIPS 2022 workshop - Foundation Models for Decision Making |
| ChatGPT for Robotics Sai Vemprala, Rogerio Bonatti, Arthur Bucker and Ashish Kapoor Published in IEEE Access Journal / Microsoft Research Tech Report - feb 2023 |
| Reshaping Robot Trajectories Using Natural Language Commands: A Study of Multi-Modal Data Alignment Using Transformers Arthur Bucker, Luis Figueredo, Sami Haddadin, Ashish Kapoor, Shuang Ma, Rogerio Bonatti Published in IROS 2022 conference | IEEE 2022 ICRA workshop on Shared Autonomy in Physical Human-Robot Interaction | IEEE 2022 ICRA workshop on Collaborative Robots and the Work of the Future | Northwest Robotics Symposium 2022 |
| Batteries, camera, action! Learning a semantic control space for expressive robot cinematography Rogerio Bonatti, Arthur Bucker, Sebastian Scherer, Mustafa Mukadam, Jessica Hodgins Published in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021) |
| Do You See What I See? Coordinating Multiple Aerial Cameras for Robot Cinematography Arthur Bucker, Rogerio Bonatti, Sebastian Scherer Published in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021) |
| Graph Neural Networks for Improved El Nino Forecasting Salva Rühling Cachay, Emma Erickson, Arthur Fender C Bucker, Ernest Pokropek, Willa Potosnak, Salomey Osei, Björn Lütjens Published in NeurIPS 2020 workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning & EGU2021 (Proposal paper) |
Experience:
Carnegie Mellon University – PhD Candidate
Aug 2023 – Present
roBot Intelligence Group (BIG)
Microsoft - Applied Sciences Group (ASG) — Research Intern
May 2023 – Aug 2023
Research on Autonomous Virtual Agents for windows, contributed to the Windows Agent Arena project, and developed a temporal aware RAG system for Agents
Microsoft - Autonomous Systems and Robotics Research — Research Intern
May 2023 – Aug 2023
Research on foundational models for Robotics & Developed an autonomy stack for indoor monocular drones
Koya AI Startup – Machine Learning Researcher
Jul 2023 – Aug 2023
Led the research on foundational models knowledge distillation
MIRMI & Microsoft collaboration – Researcher
Nov 2021 – Nov 2022
Research on HRI using multimodal inputs for motion policy shaping
Carnegie Mellon University Internship – Research Intern
May 2020 – Nov 2020
Robotics Institute Summer Scholar (RISS)
Skyrats – Member
Feb 2018 – Apr 2020
Grupo Turing – Head of Project Management
Feb 2018 – Aug 2018
Grupo Turing is the AI Research group at Escola Politécnica da USP. Its objective is to study, apply, and disseminate AI knowledge.
Cervejaria Ambev – Summer Intern
Jan 2018 – Mar 2018
Education:
Carnegie Mellon University
PhD - Robotics
Aug 2023 – present
Technical University of Munich
Master of Science - Mechatronics and Robotics
Double degree program
2020 – 2022 Thesis pdf
Escola Politécnica da USP
Bachelor’s degree Mechatronics Eng.
2017 – 2023
Colégio Santa Cruz
High School Diploma
2006 – 2016
Extracurricular self-study studies in Electronics, Computing, Neuroscience, Physics and Chemistry
Awards:
- Spotlight contribution - IEEE 2022 ICRA workshop on Collaborative Robots and the Work of the Future
- AUCANI merit scholarship recipient.
- Microsoft AI for Earth Grantee
- Fellow at Fundação Estudar Leaders program (approval rate = 0.05%)
- Summer Exchange in China on the Seeds for the Future program (Huawei)
- 1st place at CLAPP (Latin American Design & Prototype Competition)
- Winning Team at Hackathon Ambev (Hack the World 2017 SP)
- Best project award and Team leader at PACE POLI USP 2017 Competition (1st out of 200 teams)
- A representative of the State of São Paulo at the national stages of the Brazilian Robotics Olympics (team leader 2015 & 2016)
- Silver medal at the national stage of the Theoretical Robotics Olympics (2016)
- Team gold medal at the “International Olympiad Mathématiques sans frontières” (2016).
LANGUAGES
- Portuguese - Native
- English - Fluent
- German - Intermediate
- Spanish - Intermediate
- French - Basic
- Chinese - Basic