Letian (Max) Fu

I am a research scientist at Google DeepMind Robotics. I received my PhD from UC Berkeley advised by Professor Ken Goldberg. Previously, I was a research intern at NVIDIA, working with Jim Fan and Yuke Zhu.

I work on agents and foundation models for robot learning. See dissertation here.

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Publications
ASPIRE: Agentic Skills Discovery for Robotics
Runyu Lu, Yubo Wu, Ethan Kou, Max Fu, Wenli Xiao, Ajay Mandlekar, Yinzhen Xu, Guanya Shi, Ken Goldberg, Ang Chen, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Yuke Zhu, Linxi "Jim" Fan, Guanzhi Wang
Arxiv 2026, Website
Playful Agentic Robot Learning
Junyi Zhang, Jiaxin Ge, Hanjun Yoo, Letian Fu, Zihan Yang, Yaowei Liu, Raj Saravanan, Shaofeng Yin, Justin Yu, Dantong Niu, Zirui Wang, Roei Herzig, Ken Goldberg, Yutong Bai, David M. Chan, Ion Stoica, Angjoo Kanazawa, Jiahui Lei, Haiwen Feng, Trevor Darrell
Arxiv 2026, Paper, Website, Code
GaP: A Graph-as-Policy Multi-Agent Self-Learning Harness for Variational Automation Tasks
Kaiyuan Chen, Shuangyu Xie, Letian Fu, Justin Yu, William Pacini, Sandeep Bajamahal, Hudson Kim, Jaimyn Drake, Daehwa Kim, Haoru Xue, Jonathan Francis, Christian Juette, Peter Schaldenbrand, Muhammet Yunus Seker, Ruwan Wickramarachchi, Uksang Yoo, Guanzhi Wang, Adithyavairavan Murali, Balakumar Sundaralingam, S. Shankar Sastry, Spencer Huang, Yuke Zhu, Linxi "Jim" Fan, Ken Goldberg
Arxiv 2026, Paper, Website, Code
T-Rex: Tactile-Reactive Dexterous Manipulation
Dantong Niu, Zhuoyang Liu, Zekai Wang, Boning Shao, Zhao-Heng Yin, Anirudh Pai, Yuvan Sharma, Stefano Saravalle, Ruijie Zheng, Jing Wang, Ryan Punamiya, Mengda Xu, Yuqi Xie, Yunfan Jiang, Letian Fu, Konstantinos Kallidromitis, Matteo Gioia, Junyi Zhang, Jiaxin Ge, Haiwen Feng, Fabio Galasso, Wei Zhan, David M. Chan, Yutong Bai, Roei Herzig, Jiahui Lei, Li Fei-Fei, Ken Goldberg, Jitendra Malik, Pieter Abbeel, Yuke Zhu, Danfei Xu, Linxi Fan, Trevor Darrell
Arxiv 2026, Paper, Website, Code
Tactile Insertion figure
Safely Learning Visuo-Tactile Feedback Policies in Real For Industrial Insertion
Letian Fu, Huang Huang, Lars Berscheid, Hui Li, Ken Goldberg, Sachin Chitta
ICRA 2023, arXiv
SLAXRAY figure
Mechanical Search on Shelves using a Novel "Bluction" Tool
Huang Huang, Michael Danielczuk, Chung Min Kim, Letian Fu, Zachary Tam, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Anelia Angelova, Brain Ichter, Ken Goldberg
ICRA 2022, IEEE, arXiv

Website is in part based on Jon Barron's site.