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Performed millions of times a day at stores around the world, “bagging” -- opening up a crumpled bag and inserting objects -- is very challenging for robots. At #IROS2023 next week: Bagging by Learning to Singulate Layers Using Interactive Perception. Berkeley AI Research 🧵👇(1/11)

Can we talk about how inconvenient it has gotten to get a visa for Chinese students? It’s been 3 weeks since mine was “refused”. Is there any reason me, in my 2nd yr Stanford PhD, must wait for up to 180 days to be considered safe to be let in the US?

I am hiring a post-doc! Goals: develop new methods for robot learning + spatial reasoning + object manipulation; help lead a new MURI project on robots learning to overcome unexpected challenges. My previous post-doc now is now faculty at USC. Please reach out if interested!

My translation would be: "Another technique can [...] hair, but how do you do it? First start ..." and then it abruptly stops with something that looks like "acting." The term inside [...] might be close to "braid" but it looks more like "replace" to me. Still, impressive!

The WSJ newsroom after Emma Tucker announced Evan Gershkovich had been released

Excited to share that I will be presenting our work on bimanual manipulation at CoRL (Conference on Robot Learning) next week! Thanks to the team Sicheng He, Daniel Seita 🇺🇦, Gaurav Sukhatme at USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science.

MIT EECS Prof John Trump (uncle of Donald J. Trump) had >= 39 students funded by U.S. National Science Foundation, so he wrote the NSF a love letter. I think this image needs to be on the website landing page of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) or MIT EECS.

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.

Revoking visas of Chinese students studying in critical fields like AI and Robotics is incredibly short-sighted and harmful to America’s long term prosperity. We want the best from every country to work for team America

Dear MAGA friends, I have been worrying about STEM in the US a lot, because right now the Senate is writing new laws that cut 75% of the STEM budget in the US. Sorry for the long post, but the issue is really important, and I want to share what I know about it. The entire