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Markus Knauer

Research Scientist @ German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Doctoral Candidate + Teaching Assistant @ Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Research Focus

I develop methods that enable robots to learn new skills interactively and adapt their behavior through natural language. My work combines probabilistic machine learning with foundation models — progressing from physical demonstration-based learning, to language-guided motion adaptation, toward fully autonomous robot agents.

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Key Results

2–5 demos to learn a new skill
Interactive incremental refinement via natural language
Generalizable task-parameterized adaptation to new configurations
Safe LLM modulates motion, never controls the robot directly