Time will tell Toadmaster…and what is the sound of one gripper closing?

Large Robot Action Models vs. Good Old Fashioned Engineering ;):

Funding for international research visits really should be part of every major PhD program to encourage students to form new collaborations! At WASP Research, the students are really lucky to be generously funded for such activities. This week our visit with 17 PhD students and

Can we make Transformers better and more efficient for robot learning? Excited to introduce Body Transformer (BoT), an architecture that leverages robot embodiment in the attention mechanism, by treating it as a graph of sensors and actuators.

Never underestimate a public school teacher!

Super excited about ⁦Tiffany Shlain⁩’s solo art exhibit @ Nancy Hoffman Gallery in NYC opening on Sept 5! meer.com/en/82214-you-a…

What to look for in robot humanoid videos (by James O'Donnell in MIT MIT Technology Review ) mailchi.mp/technologyrevi…

The dangers of “AI Inbreeding” :nytimes.com/interactive/20… via @NYTimes

The science behind why your remote car key has a longer range when held to your head/body (or to a jar of water) [📹 museumofscience]

…forgot to warn about humans dressed in robot costumes..;): x.com/byron_wan/stat…

Prompting VLA robot control models with examples makes sense!

Looking fwd to this next week!!

Everything is AI now. Here a Voronoi diagram is labelled as AI.

Spot on: “…Since the Obama presidency, Democrats have increasingly become the party of the educated, and the upshot has often been a whiff of condescension toward working-class voters, especially toward voters of faith.” nytimes.com/2024/08/31/opi…

Exactly: “…I can ensure their ability to pursue their education, but I cannot protect them from being offended.” TY Michael S Roth. nytimes.com/2024/09/02/opi… via @NYTOpinion

Please explain to the community exactly what happened and when decisions will actually be announced.

Authors, Reviewers, and Area Chairs all met their deadlines. Why haven’t the Program Chairs?

Very excited to see this presented Conference on Robot Learning in November!!

Thrilled that @TiffanyShlain’s first NY solo art show @ Nancy Hoffman Gallery is on this list! news.artnet.com/art-world/here…