How can a 🤖 plan and control tools (e.g., 🧽 🧹) for contact-rich tasks given visual-language inputs? CALAMARI 🦑 shows how we can handle this problem in a very generalizable and data-efficient way via a spatial-action map representation! (1/n) Conference on Robot Learning

Uhoh! My Ubuntu partition boots to a black screen 📺. Time for a: sudo apt-get purge nvidia* and a prayer🙏! Let me know if you have any other recommendations ...

An excellent talk by the great Pete Florence, very thought provoking and excellently done. No idea how you managed it as a new dad, I have nothing but mad respect! youtube.com/watch?v=aeCZ7D…

# on shortification of "learning" There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are

Sora knows physics the way I know how one guy just disappears behind another guy

# on technical accessibility One interesting observation I think back to often: - when I first published the micrograd repo, it got some traction on GitHub but then somewhat stagnated and it didn't seem that people cared much. - then I made the video building it from scratch,

I'm looking forward to #ICRA2024, and need to pick a banquet venue for registration. Help me out! Where will everyone be?

I work with many students that are learning how to write. So I get to see a lot of them making the same mistakes. When I ask them why they are pursuing an academic career, or why they are working on a paper, they often tell me something like: “because I want to make a

Learning with 3D rotations, a hitchhiker's guide to SO(3) A. René Geist, Jonas Frey, Mikel Zobro, Anna Levina, Georg Martius tl;dr: how to select suitable SO(3) for nn regression? SO(N)->Lipschitz continuity of the function->representation space arxiv.org/pdf/2404.11735…

Incredible video on chip manufacturing! The shear amount of engineering that goes into the process is astounding. This video is one of the most informative, educational, and beautiful I have ever seen on any topic: youtube.com/watch?v=dX9CGR…

Congrats Professor Nima Fazeli on the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER grant! It supports his work "to realize intelligent and dexterous robots that seamlessly integrate vision and touch." Read more: robotics.umich.edu/2024/nima-faze…

I am really grateful to my students without whom this would not be possible!! I am also very grateful to the NSF and the panel for their consideration and time.

Imagine controlling robots with simple gestures! We've developed a system that lets you point at objects and tell robots to 'move this' or 'close that,' with language-gesture-controlled video generation! Check out our project dubbed "this&that": cfeng16.github.io/this-and-that/

🆕🔥Dual asymmetric limit surfaces and their applications to #planarmanipulation by Xili Yi, An Dang & Nima Fazeli 🔗bit.ly/3TVmPqy Michigan Robotics University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering #RoboticManipulation

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Cheers to all the authors who received awards for their posters/demos at Michigan AI Symposium! 🏆 🎉 Your innovative research & hard work truly stood out! Thank you to session chairs: Daniel Geng & Zilin Wang Presenters: Yinpei Dai, Zixuan Huang, Daniel Philipov, Yixuan Wang

Perfect start to the #CoRL2024 week! Was a pleasure organizing the NextGen Robot Learning Symposium at TU Darmstadt with Firas Al-Hafez Georgia Chalvatzaki Thanks to the speakers for the great talks! Yunzhu Li Nima Fazeli Dian Wang Haojie Huang Vikash Kumar ✈️ CoRL Kiana Ehsani Oliver Kroemer

Earlier this year, Nima Fazeli recieved a U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award. We took the chance to catch up with Professor Fazeli to learn a bit more about the fascinating research on "intelligent and dexterous robots that seamlessly integrate vision and touch.”