Michael Lutter
Manager Atlas Behavior Learning at Boston Dynamics
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Lutter is a robotics and AI research leader with 11 years of experience and a PhD-level focus on machine learning and control, now managing Atlas behavior learning at Boston Dynamics in Cambridge, MA. His career blends rigorous academia—postdoc and doctoral work in robotics at TU Darmstadt—with industry research roles at DeepMind and NVIDIA, giving him deep expertise in legged locomotion, perception-to-action pipelines, and learning-based control. He moves teams from prototype research to real-world robot behaviors, combining hands-on algorithm development with practical system integration. Michael’s background in electrical engineering and experience at top labs reflect a rare mix of theoretical depth and applied engineering, and he often bridges transatlantic collaboration between German and US research ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Special Student Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Special Student Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTechnischen Universität DarmstadtMaster's Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master's Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Technical University of MunichBachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering/Computer Science and Management, Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering/Computer Science and Management at University of Duisburg-Essen
Github Skills (56)
physics-engine10
simulation10
deterministic10
robotics10
kinematics10
python10
simulator10
acceleration10
collision10
machine-learning10
collision-detection10
bullet10
numpy10
dynamics10
bullet-physics10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
milutter/deep_lagrangian_networks
Dec 2020 - Nov 2024
Open-source implementation of Deep Lagrangian Networks (DeLaN)
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
deep-learningpytorchlagrangian
milutter/milutter.github.io
May 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 10 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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