Ukrainians are far from the only ones suffering from war. Also people in Yemen, Ethiopia... just as human as Ukrainians and you are. This is NOT a valid excuse to not care about Ukrainians today. But it does mean we should self-reflect and extend our compassion to others too.

Can a robot open a crumpled plastic bag and pack objects into it? We’re developing algorithms for autonomous bagging. UC Berkeley BAIR Berkeley AI Research, CMU Robotics Institute, and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) #ICRA2023 🧵👇 (1/11)

How can robots learn generalizable manipulation skills for diverse objects? Going beyond pick-and-place, our recent work “HACMan” enables complex interactions for unseen objects, such as flipping, pushing, or tilting, using spatial action maps + RL with point clouds. (w/ @MetaAI)

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