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Thank you Paige for this very accurate summary!

Congratulations to BAIR alumni Andrea Bajcsy who has earned the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award! ri.cmu.edu/andrea-bajcsy-…

Brilliant:

Terence Tao says today's AIs pass the eye test -- but fail miserably on the smell test. They generate proofs that look flawless. But the mistakes are subtle, and strangely inhuman. “There's a metaphorical mathematical smell.. it's not clear how to get AI to duplicate that.”

Zombie robot RL policy

"Data Will Solve Robotics and Automation: True or False?" : Video of Debate at IEEE ICRA with Animesh Garg, Russ Tedrake, Daniela Rus, Leslie Kaebling, Aude Billard, Frank Park, Nancy Amato and Seth Hutchinson: youtube.com/watch?v=Pfvctj…

“To develop truly intelligent computers and robots, we're going to have to unlock those processes one by one— causing flurries of great expectations, followed by more modest real successes…”

Why haven’t advances in AI been applied to Autocorrect?

There's growing momentum in the research world behind tactile sensing. New tactile sensors and data collection strategies breathe new potential into the area, at the same time that reliability demands from real-world robotics demands are making it more important. I think the

“…If Wiseman aimed to celebrate public investment in grand civic infrastructure,…to portray virtuosity and resilience…, to witness dramatic…departures from consensual reality…, he could have … captured all of it UC Berkeley.” nytimes.com/2025/06/30/opi…

When compared with humanoid robot hands, "the vacuum gripper is simpler, lighter, more rugged, less bulky, faster, and less expensive...."

Looking fwd to presenting an update at 15:40 today at the #AIforGood summit: Closing the 100,000 year “data gap” in robotics aiforgood.itu.int/event/closing-…

TY Johann, good advice ;)

Looking fwd to presenting this talk Google next Thurs at noon. It will be live in person in Mountain View CA (not online) but is free and open to the public: How to Close the 100,000 Year “Data Gap” in Robotics rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/how-to-…

This Thursday 12-1pm: It's not too late to sign up.

Nice!

This raises high expectations: what does it deliver?

Thx John for this excellent summary. Data quality vs data quantity is a crucial issue; that’s why data flywheels like AmbiRobotics can be effective: they collect real production data from real packages in real logistics environments.

Nice!