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In today's publication culture, most authors are after being SOTA, showing tables with 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝 numbers, and writing the minimum viable paper! The goal of a scientific paper should be to push the field forward with new intuition/insights on how to think about solving a problem.

Happy 2025! May the robots finally get smarter and start helping humans. Robot trained to skateboard by Hang Liu and Sangli Teng

A big congrats to Tzu-Yuan Lin for defending a PhD last month: The work explores the incorporation of symmetric structures to develop efficient and generalizable perception algorithms for robotics. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=iZPSY1…

How are Kernel Smoothing in statistics, Data-Adaptive Filters in image processing, and Attention in Machine Learning related? I wrote a thread about this late last year. I'll repeat it here and include a link to the slides at the end of the thread. 1/n

yours truly featured on the MIT homepage: news.mit.edu (permanent link: news.mit.edu/2025/expanding…) . I'm very thankful to have the support of my research team, mentors, friends, and family. The best's yet to come at #mitSparkLab

Congrats to Tribhi Kathuria on a successful PhD defense! The defense explains how robots can conduct themselves in dynamic human-centric scenarios, through behavior and motion planning... including using a museum tour guide robot as a test case. youtu.be/y8sAHQYkecw

Exploring beyond RGB? Join us at ICRA 2025 for an exciting workshop on Thermal Infrared in Robotics (TIRO)! 🔥🤖 Share your latest thermal imaging projects in robotics or take part in our competition. 🔥 Workshop webpage sites.google.com/view/tiro25/

Accepted to ICRA 2025! 🎉 We introduce MI-HGNN, a morphology-informed heterogeneous graph neural network built directly from a robot’s URDF. By embedding robot morphological constraints, MI-HGNN significantly enhances model efficiency and learning performance. Applied to contact

🛹Can robots perform cool skateboarding tricks?! 🥰SURE!! 💫Discrete-Time Hybrid Automata Learning: Legged Locomotion Meets Skateboarding Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.01842 Website:umich-curly.github.io/DHAL/ Enjoy our video! We hope it brings you joy!

Legged Locomotion… meets Skateboarding [Paper ⬇️] Most robot movement models either rely on fixed patterns or struggle to handle complex changes. DHAL (Discrete-time Hybrid Automata Learning) takes a different approach: using reinforcement learning to teach robots when and

POp-GS: Next Best View in 3D-Gaussian Splatting with P-Optimality Joey Wilson, Marcelino Almeida, Sachit Mahajan, Martin Labrie, Maani Ghaffari, Omid Ghasemalizadeh, Min Sun, Cheng-Hao Kuo, Arnab Sen arxiv.org/abs/2503.07819

In some ways it's harder than ever to land a research job - both in academia and in industry. As you prepare for a job talk, consider giving it the following structure - it's hard to give a bad talk that's built like this.: First, a short snippet of your overall set of

Part 2 of SLAM handbook is out for public comments! let us know what you think :-) Issue tracker on GitHub awaits! Link in comments.

🚨breaking robotics news🚨 We’re thrilled to announce that the MIT Robotics Worldwide Workshop (happening today, April 4, 3-5pm EST) will be livestreamed. You can watch the lightning talks and panel here for free web.mit.edu/webcast/roboti… #MITRobotics #Innovation #TechLiveStream

Vision and contact dynamics are both heavily influenced by geometry, so why do we treat them as separate problems? By combining vision with physics, "Vysics," each informs the other and we can generate accurate shape reconstructions despite major visual occlusions.

I graduated 6 PhD students since last year! Ray Zhang -> Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute (TRI) Tzu-Yuan Lin -> Postdoc at MIT w/ Sangbae Kim Chien Erh Lin -> Applied Scientist at Amazon Robotics Tribhi Kathuria -> Lecturer at Michigan Robotics Sangli Teng -> Postdoc at UC

🚀 Gearing up for ICRA 2025 in Atlanta! Our Lunar Lab @ Georgia Tech is bringing the heat: 🌟 MI-HGNN & MS-HGNN for legged robot dynamics 🤖 STATE-NAV for humanoid traversability and navigation 🎙️ Prof. Lu Gan Lu Gan speaks at two workshops: Foundation Models and

🚨 Just dropped: Nimble Dimples in action! 🌀💥 Our latest research from the Sareen Group shows how smart morphable skins can supercharge underwater agility. 🎥 Watch the video: youtu.be/De2VQYkdztM 📰 Full story: bit.ly/3K8y8Vd #FluidDynamics #SmartMorphableSkin