Last week at @aamas2023 and IEEE ICRA #ICRA2023 was excellent. Our book marl-book.com got much attention and has been downloaded over 2500 times after one week! Huge thanks to Karl Tuyls is @karltuyls.bsky.social for featuring it in his keynote.

Interested in recent advances in multi-agent reinforcement learning? Recordings from the Multi-Agent Learning Seminar are now available at: youtube.com/@multi-agentle… To join fill out: forms.gle/vWgL6xYD268wwT… Some highlights and more info below: 1/6

For those exploring animal VR setup check this out: With Matt Isaacson, we present the first miniaturized VR headset, MouseGoggles, for mouse neuroscience and behavior (< $200 in parts💰, open-source, highly immersive)🧵1/2 #VR Research Square SchafferNishimuraLab 🧠🐭🥽 researchsquare.com/article/rs-330…

I am very happy to announce that our work: "Accelerating Motion Planning via Optimal Transport" has been accepted to #NeurIPS2023! Project website: sites.google.com/view/sinkhorn-…

multi_agent_path_planning Python implementation of a bunch of multi-robot path-planning algorithms. github.com/atb033/multi_a…

mav_active_3d_planning Modular framework for online informative path planning. > We provide a modular framework for creating, evaluating and employing primarily sampling based, receding horizon algorithms that optimize a gain while minimizing a cost. #ROS github.com/ethz-asl/mav_a…

Had the privilege of presenting at the Geriatronics Workshop at #IROS2023 in Detroit! It was a great first experience! 🙂

@DisneyResearch introduces their new robot at #IROS2023! Trained in simulation with #reinforcementlearning! ieeeIROS

A Roboticist’s Dream World at #IROS2023 🤩🤖🦿

It was my pleasure to help Minnesota Robotics Institute and MN African Women's Assn. with the tech camp for young African talent! cse.umn.edu/mnri/news/mnri…

Waking up as a Linux user today #Crowdstrike

Graph-Based_SLAM-Aware_Exploration [IEEE RA-L 2024]: Graph-based SLAM-Aware Exploration with Prior Topo-Metric Information. github.com/bairuofei/Grap…

👇Introducing DPPO, Diffusion Policy Policy Optimization DPPO optimizes pre-trained Diffusion Policy using policy gradient from RL, showing 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 over a variety of baselines across benchmarks and sim2real transfer diffusion-ppo.github.io

Thanks AK! Finally, robot can do continuous, agile, autonomous, adaptive jumping over stair and stepping stone Key idea: combine the pros of model-free RL and model-based control. RL (for CoM refs) + QP (for GRF) + WBC (for torque) Open-sourced: yxyang.github.io/jumping_cod/

“Beheadings In North East Oromia by Right-Wing Amhara Militia, Fanno”

#Ethiopia: Beheading of young man in #Oromia’s #Darra district sparks outrage as violence claims 43 lives in four months A "gruesome beheading" of a young man in the Darra district has exposed the escalating violence in Ethiopia's Oromia region, where armed conflicts have

Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou is still struggling financially even after 20+ years in Hollywood. How is that possible yet he’s one of the most recognizable African actors?

Sahli Negassi, a 17-year-old teen from West Orange, New Jersey scores a perfect 1600 on the SAT. He plans to attend Harvard University and pursue a career in law 🔥