Stéphane Caron

I'm a robotics researcher and open-source advocate currently working as an academic in France. I organize open-source robotics initiatives, including co-organizing the "Open-Source Hardware in the Era of Robot Learning" workshop at CoRL 2025 in Seoul. I created the Upkie wheeled biped project to demonstrate that capable open-source robots are now accessible beyond research labs and companies. I also actively contribute to the open-source ecosystem, maintaining robotics libraries like robot_descriptions.py (standardized access to robot models from Python), as well as projects that can be useful outside of robotics like qpsolvers (quadratic programming solvers with a unified API).