Johns Hopkins lab makes Unitree G1 humanoid crawl like a spider for Halloween
_krishna_murthy · x · 2026-10-31
- Johns Hopkins' Sci-Phy Lab (led by Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula) shows a Halloween demo: student Geeta Chandra got a Unitree G1 humanoid to crawl like a spider.
- The lab doubles down on whole-body locomanipulation research; the demo used a full-stack approach, with hand mounts designed by Addison Johnson.
- Sci-Phy spans the full robotics stack—perception, reasoning, control, hardware/sensor design—recently released the OpenTac tactile sensor, and is recruiting its first PhD cohort.
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