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Dr Edward Johns is Director of the Robot Learning Lab at Imperial College London, where he is also an Associate Professor. He received his undergraduate and master's degrees in engineering from Cambridge University, and his PhD in computer vision from Imperial College. Following a post-doc at UCL, he returned to Imperial as a founding member of the Dyson Robotics Lab, after which he was awarded an RAEng Research Fellowship. In 2018, he joined the faculty at Imperial and founded the Robot Learning Lab in the Department of Computing, where he also teaches a graduate-level course on Robot Learning.

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Dr Edward Johns is Director of the Robot Learning Lab at Imperial College London, where he is also an Associate Professor. He received his undergraduate and master's degrees in engineering from Cambridge University, and his PhD in computer vision from Imperial College. Following a post-doc at UCL, he returned to Imperial as a founding member of the Dyson Robotics Lab, after which he was awarded an RAEng Research Fellowship. In 2018, he joined the faculty at Imperial and founded the Robot Learning Lab in the Department of Computing, where he also teaches a graduate-level course on Robot Learning.

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He and his team are developing artificial intelligence for robots, with a particular focus on robot manipulation: robots that can physically interact with objects using their arms and hands. In 2022 he was Head of Robot Learning at Dyson for a year, and he has been an advisor for a number of robotics startups. In 2022, he received Imperial College's President's Award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher, and in 2023, he received the UK-RAS Early Career Award. In 2025, he received a $7M grant from ARIA to lead a project on dexterous manipulation.

 

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