This has to be one of the coolest robot demo videos I’ve seen! Very impressive stuff from Physical Intelligence

It was a ton of fun to help William Shen and Caelan Garrett on new work that does GPU-accelerated TAMP! Exciting progress towards efficient test time scaling for robots 🤖

Thrilled to share that I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech (Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing / Robotics@GT / Machine Learning at Georgia Tech) in Fall 2026. My lab will tackle problems in robot learning, multimodal ML, and interaction. I'm recruiting PhD students this next cycle – please apply/reach out!

Hello world! This is Nishanth Kumar and I'll be taking over MIT CSAIL 's X/Twitter & Instagram for 24 hours! I'm a 4th year PhD MIT EECS working on AI/ML for Robotics and Computer Agents. Drop any and all questions about research, AI, MIT, or dogs (esp. robot dogs!) below 👇

📢 Excited to announce the 1st workshop on Making Sense of Data in Robotics Conference on Robot Learning! #CORL2025 What makes robot learning data “good”? We focus on: 🧩 Data Composition 🧹 Data Curation 💡 Data Interpretability 📅 Papers due: 08/22/2025 🌐 tinyurl.com/corldata25 🧵(1/3)

I competed on robotics teams (FIRST, WRO) throughout middle and high school and loved it. When I got to college, I asked Stefanie Tellex about forming an undergrad robotics competition club. She suggested I try research first. “Research is cooler”, she said. She was right!

We're excited for #RLC2025! If you're at the conference, be sure to catch our PI Leslie Kaelbling's keynote on "RL: Rational Learning" from 9-10 in CCIS 1-430. Leslie will talk about some new perspectives + exciting new results from the group: you won't want to miss it! 🤖

Check out Leslie Kaelbling's #RLC2025 Keynote where she talks about some new pespectives and a number of new works from the group: youtube.com/watch?v=10OjAI…

This is my new favorite robot demo video - very impressive! Expert level table tennis seems more within reach than I would have thought!

For people interested in learning more about this work, my wonderful advisor Leslie Kaelbling gave a keynote at RL_Conference recently where she discussed this paper + how it fits into a broader framework for general-purpose robotics! Watch the talk here:

Our lab is hiring a postdoc! Reach out if you want to push the frontiers of robot learning from human data.