Researchers from Politechnika Poznańska and Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group propose a novel learning-based approach to fast kinodynamic planning on the constraint manifold that allows performing trick shots in robotic air hockey. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10292… #RobotKinematics #NeuralNetworks #MotionPlanning

My last work as a Postdoc, before becoming a Group Leader. Amazing work by Piotr Kicki, during his visit at Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group. Thanks also to the incredible collaboration of Puze LIU and Haitham Bou Ammar! And, obviously, thanks to Jan Peters for making everything possible!

💯Maciej Wołczyk (IDEAS NCBR) i Piotr Kicki (Politechnika Poznańska, IDEAS NCBR) wśród 100 najzdolniejszych młodych naukowców w Polsce według FNP Foundation for Polish Science. Gratulujemy! 🏆Każdy z laureatów otrzyma roczne stypendium – 30 tys. zł. ideas-ncbr.pl/maciej-wolczyk…

Great spotlight talk Nico Bohlinger!

I'm happy to announce that we will organize the LocoLearn Workshop at Conference on Robot Learning 2024 in Munich! If you are interested in learning, active perception, or bioinspired locomotion, join us on Saturday, November 9th, 2024. locolearn.robot-learning.net

It would be nice not to worry about catastrophic forgetting while continually training your models, wouldn’t it? Check out our new #ECCV2024 paper to see how you can do that. “MagMax: Leveraging Model Merging for Seamless Continual Learning” 📜arxiv.org/pdf/2407.06322

I am happy to announce that my three submissions to Conference on Robot Learning 2024 have been accepted! Many thanks to my incredible collaborators, and I'm looking forward to meeting the community at the main conference and the Locolearn Workshop! Here are the three accepted papers 👇

"Bridging the gap between Learning-to-plan, Motion Primitives and Safe Reinforcement Learning" with Piotr Kicki, Puze LIU, Jonas Günster, Jan Peters and KrzysztofTWalas This is another amazing collaboration with PUT/IDEAS NCBR. arxiv.org/pdf/2408.14063

Our competition retrospective on the Robot Air Hockey Challenge 2023 has been accepted in the dataset and benchmark track at NeurIPS Conference 2024! See you at the conference, but in the meantime, you can take a look at the videos here …r-hockey-challenge.robot-learning.net

🚨Szok. Najważniejsza w Polsce instytucja zajmująca się rozwojem sztucznej inteligencji traci wybitnego lidera, a odejście planują inni ważni naukowcy Prof. Aleksander Mądry (MIT/OPENAI) również rezygnuje.‼️ To jest już prawdziwa katastrofa co się dzieje z nauką i rozwojem pod

Dariusz Wieczorek IDEAS NCBR ‼️Mamy deklarację, że minister Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego Dariusz Wieczorek ma "wyjaśniać sprawę" zmian w IDEAS NCBR. 👇 Z rady naukowej zrezygnowało już 6 osób: Marta Kwiatkowska, Marcin Żukowski, Aleksander Mądry, Wojciech Samek, Marek Barwiński, Zofia Dzik. gazetaprawna.pl/wiadomosci/art…

Im więcej wiem na temat procesu wyboru nowego prezesa IDEAS NCBR, tym bardziej uważam, że w interesie publicznym jest transparentne wyjaśnienie kryteriów wyboru nowego prezesa. Poniższy list wysłałem do Premiera Donalda Tuska Donald Tusk

List Profesora Marka Cygan do Premiera Donald Tusk w sprawie wyboru prezesa IDEAS NCBR. Proszę o podanie dalej. x.com/marek_a_cygan/…

W kontekście zarzutów o brak zysku finansowego IDEAS NCBR warto zajrzeć do dokumentu opisującego zadania tej spółki. Maciej Gdula Dariusz Wieczorek Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego gov.pl/web/ncbr/opis-…

Deeply concerned about the future of IDEAS NCBR, a pioneering AI research institute & newly approved ELLIS unit. International advisory board members, incl. Aleksander Mądry, have resigned after the sudden and unjustified replacement of its founding director. Donald Tusk

Always a big shock when basic research gets into troubles because it doesn't do enough profit Maciej Gdula IDEAS NCBR Piotr Sankowski

🤖Last week, members of 'Physical interaction robotics' research team at IDEAS NCBR took part in #IROS2024 in Abu Dhabi, presenting 3 co-authored posters about autonomous racing, deformable object manipulation, and human-robot collaboration. Read more ➡️ ideas-ncbr.pl/en/back-from-i…

Do you want to deploy a navigation stack on a cheap quadruped robot? Take a look at our latest ECMR paper, "Robust Localization, Mapping, and Navigation for Quadruped Robots". In our work, we tackle the issues arising from the combination of low-cost robots and RL policies

Humanity has prevailed (for now!) I'm completely exhausted. I figured, I had 10h of sleep in the last 3 days and I'm barely alive. I'll post more about the contest when I get some rest. (To be clear, those are provisional results, but my lead should be big enough)