Jack Collins

Jack Collins is a Researcher and AI Research Scientist at Collaborative Robotics, focusing on robotics foundation models for collaborative robots. Previously, he served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford's Applied Artificial Intelligence Lab and completed his PhD at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in collaboration with CSIRO. His research emphasizes sim-to-real methods, robot simulation, and bridging the 'Reality Gap.' He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronics) with First Class Honours from QUT.

Education:

• PhD in Robotics (2018-2022), QUT/CSIRO
• BEng (Mechatronics) (Honours) (2014-2017), QUT

Research Interests:

• Robot simulation and sim-to-real transfer
• Bimanual/mobile robotic manipulation
• Generative models and world modeling
• Task planning for long-horizon tasks
• Evolutionary robotics and component design

Publications: Over 15 peer-reviewed articles focusing on simulation realism, robotic manipulation benchmarks, and generative modeling techniques. Key work includes the COMBO-Grasp framework and TWIST distillation method for sim-to-real transfer.

Lab Affiliations: QUT Centre for Robotics (QCR), Oxford Robotics Institute's Applied AI Lab.