Sidd Srinivasa's goal is to enable robots to robustly and gracefully interact with the world to perform complex manipulation tasks in uncertain, unstructured, and cluttered environments. Srinivasa (CS 2001, 2005), a Carnegie Mellon alumnus, founded and directs the Personal Robotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, co-directs the Manipulation Lab, and leads the HERB effort at the Quality of Life Technologies NSF ERC.