Portrait of Benji Warburton

Benji Warburton.

EECS at Stanford — robotics, systems, machine learning

Currently working on: actuators, GNSS, robot dogs, strange vehicles.

Experience

  1. Hardware Technology Intern, Apple

    Built a GNSS simulation platform for verifying signal-processing components.

    Summer 2026
  2. Summer Fellow, Y Combinator

    Designed robot-joint actuators with frameless motors and 3D-printed gearboxes, at roughly 6× lower cost.

    Summer 2026
  3. Research Assistant, Stanford ARMLab

    Working on TidyBot, an embodied-AI system that scans rooms and restores displaced objects to their original poses.

    Current
  4. Teaching Assistant, CS 123

    Only undergraduate on the teaching team; built labs with collaborators from Google DeepMind and mentor six robotics teams.

    Current
  5. Rise Fellow, Schmidt Futures

    Global Winner, 1 of 100 — designed a sub-$45 robotics education kit.

    Fellowship
  6. Data Science Intern, YASA

    Analyzed electric-motor dyno tests to shorten end-of-line test cycles.

    Summer 2023

Projects

  1. Electric truck restoration full blog here

    Restoring a 1990s Taylor-Dunn electric truck with modern controls, drivetrain, and sensing.

    Ongoing
  2. From Text to Torque

    Natural-language commands to diffusion-generated motions to PPO control policies, on a simulated Unitree G1 humanoid.

    2026
  3. Compositional tool-sequence generation

    Fine-tuned Qwen3 small language models for structured multi-step tool calling — over 3× better exact match on an instruction-to-program benchmark.

    2026
  4. iOS RGBD streamer

    An app that streams LiDAR and camera data to a computer as synchronized virtual webcams.

    2026

Miscellaneous