Jad Abou-Chakra

Jad Abou-Chakra

Hi there! I am the co-founder and CTO of Sydekick Robotics, where we are bringing physical AI to manufacturing and tackling the long tail of tasks that have kept robots off the factory floor. Previously, I was at the Robotics & AI Institute (formerly the Boston Dynamics AI Institute). I hold a PhD from the QUT Centre for Robotics, where I specialized in structured world models for robot manipulation and robot learning.

Research

Jad Abou-Chakra, Lingfeng Sun, Krishan Rana, Brandon May, Karl Schmeckpeper, Niko Suenderhauf, Maria Vittoria Minniti, Laura Herlant
ICRA 2026
Jad Abou-Chakra, Krishan Rana, Feras Dayoub, Niko Suenderhauf
★ Oral Presentation, CoRL24 ★
Jad Abou-Chakra, Feras Dayoub, Niko Suenderhauf
★ Best Paper Honorable Mention, WACV24 ★
NeRF
Affordance-Centric Policy Decomposition: Sample-Efficient Robot Policy Learning for Long-Horizon Manipulation
Krishan Rana, Jad Abou-Chakra, Sourav Garg, Robert Lee, Ian Reid, Niko Suenderhauf
Jad Abou-Chakra, Krishan Rana, Feras Dayoub, Niko Suenderhauf
CoRL 2023 - Workshop for Neural Representation Learning for Robot Manipulation
X-Embodiment
Open X-Embodiment Worldwide Collaboration
★ Best Paper, ICRA24 ★
SayPlan: Grounding Large Language Models using 3D Scene Graphs for Scalable Robot Task Planning
Krishan Rana, Jesse Haviland, Sourav Garg, Jad Abou-Chakra, Ian Reid, Niko Suenderhauf
★ Oral Presentation, CoRL23 ★
Folding By Hand
Robert Lee, Jad Abou-Chakra, Fangyi Zhang, Peter Corke
ICRA 2024
NeRF
Implicit Object Reconstruction With Noisy Data
Jad Abou-Chakra, Feras Dayoub, Niko Suenderhauf
IMRSS 2022 Workshop