CV

Education, experience, awards, and skills.

Contact Information

Name Caleb Churata
Email caleb@leggedrobotics.com

Experience

  • 2026 - present

    Zürich, Switzerland

    Robotics Student Fellow
    Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zürich
    Robotics Student Fellow in the ETH Robotics Student Fellowship (RSF) program — legged robotics research with the RSL team.
  • 2026 - present

    Lima, Peru

    Director de Proyecto
    IEEE Robotics & Automation Society UTEC
    Leading the LÁK Biped project, a bipedal robot inspired by Disney’s BDX robot.
  • 2026 - 2026

    Geneva, Switzerland

    ETH Robotics Summer School 2026 — Participant
    ETH RobotX
    One of 50 students worldwide invited to the ETH Robotics Summer School 2026 — an intensive week combining robotics theory with hands-on programming of autonomous, all-terrain quadruped robots, culminating in a search-and-rescue competition.
  • 2025 - 2026

    Barranco, Peru

    Presidente
    IEEE Robotics & Automation Society UTEC

Education

Awards

  • 2025

    Awarded by IROS 2025 for the FreeWheels project — an intuitive-control wheelchair for athletes — presented at Volting Cup 2025 in China.

  • 2025

    Awarded by Darat Latam / UTEC Ventures, recognizing the project with the greatest potential impact on smart urban environments.

Projects

  • 2026 - Present
    Obedience — Bipedal Robot

    Autonomous bipedal robot with capture-point walking control, built on ROS 2, MuJoCo, and Pinocchio.

  • 2025 - 2025
    FreeWheels

    Intuitive-control wheelchair for athletes. 2nd place, IROS 2025 China; winner, Smart City Challenge.

  • 2026 - Present
    LÁK Biped

    Bipedal robot inspired by Disney’s BDX robot, IEEE RAS UTEC.

Skills

Robotics & Controls: ROS 2, MuJoCo, Pinocchio, legged locomotion, capture-point control, sim-to-real reinforcement learning
Embedded & Hardware: PCB design (KiCad), ESP32, micro-ROS, Arduino
Programming: Python, C++

Languages

Spanish : Native
English : Professional working proficiency

Interests

Research: Legged robotics, sim-to-real transfer, reinforcement learning, low-cost and open robotics platforms