I am excited to share that I will be joining Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, as an Assistant Professor in the College of Computing and Data Science starting Summer 2025! NTU Singapore NTU College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS) I am currently recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025. If you are

🤔What tasks do we want robots to handle? Are these preferences based on saved time or feelings we associate with the tasks? Introducing Why Automate This?—a study exploring automation preferences across social groups, using feelings & time-spent as key factors. 👇 (1/5)

Calling exceptional graduate students in the US working on hard problems in AI - Join us as a Research Interns to build the Next-Generation AI Models for India and the World! India has fallen behind in the race to develop its own cutting-edge LLMs—but we are changing that.

Exciting news! 🎉 Texas Robotics faculty members Farshid Alambeigi, PhD and Yuke Zhu have been awarded tenure! Their groundbreaking research and dedication to teaching continue to shape the future of robotics. 👏🤖 #Robotics #AI

🤖 Ever wondered what robots need to truly help humans around the house? 🏡 Introducing 𝗕𝗘𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗢𝗥 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲 (𝗕𝗥𝗦)—a comprehensive framework for mastering mobile whole-body manipulation across diverse household tasks! 🧹🫧 From taking out the trash to

1/N Most Vision-Language-Action models need tons of data for finetuning, and still fail for new objects and instructions. Introducing OTTER, a lightweight, easy-to-train model that uses text-aware visual features to nail unseen tasks out of the box! Here's how it works 👇

How to use simulation data for real-world robot manipulation? We present sim-and-real co-training, a simple recipe for manipulation. We demonstrate that sim data can significantly enhance real-world performance, even with notable differences between the sim and the real. (1/n)

Sim-and-real co-training is the key technique behind GR00T's ability to learn across the data pyramid. Our latest study shows how synthetic and real-world data can be jointly leveraged to train robust, generalizable vision-based manipulation policies. 📚 co-training.github.io

1/6❓Can robots learn to play competitive sports by observing expert human players? 🚨Introducing LATTE-MV, a scalable 3D reconstruction system that⚙️800+ hrs of Youtube videos to create the largest 3D 🏓TT dataset! ✅27 hrs of gameplay | 73k exchanges 🌐sastry-group.github.io/LATTE-MV/

📣 Thrilled to share our #RSS2025 workshop: Mobile Manipulation: Emerging Opportunities & Contemporary Challenges—happening in LA! 🤖🤖🤖 Submit via OpenReview: openreview.net/group?id=robot… Deadline: May 25, 2025 🌐 rss-moma-2025.github.io

1/6🤖How do robots beat professional racers? Racing isn’t just about speed—it’s strategy! 🚨Introducing 🏁α-RACER🏎️: a real-time algo to compute Nash equilibrium strategy, enabling optimal decisions against competitive opponents ✅Scalable, fast, and game-theoretically sound

Excited to be at Atlanta for #ICRA2025 and present our work, BUMBLE, on Thursday! Catch our talk at 11:00 AM @ 302, and swing by our poster. If you're around and want to chat about robots, I'd love to connect!

Curating robot datasets is crucial for performance, especially as we scale up. We take a stab at it in SCIZOR✂️

Real-world RL, where robots learn directly from physical interactions, is extremely challenging — especially for high-DoF systems like mobile manipulators. 1⃣ Long-horizon tasks and large action spaces lead to difficult policy optimization. 2⃣ Real-world exploration with

Casper👻 helps you teleoperate smarter — easing workload while keeping you in command, powered by the "common sense" in vision-language models. Such teleop systems will enable better robot assistants as well as a data collection system.

Empowering care recipients with personalized mealtime assistance from robots. Congrats on the Outstanding & Systems Paper finalist — rooting for you! 👏🤖🏡

Imagine a future where robots are part of our daily lives — How can end users teach robots new tasks by directly showing them, just like teaching another person? 🧵👇

Digital twins for personalized healthcare and sports. Excited to see future updates from myolab.ai — congrats @vikashplus and team!

I’ll be at #ICML2025 presenting our paper, “Proto Successor Measure: Representing the Behavior Space of an RL Agent”. Excited to connect with others working on unsupervised RL and RL more broadly. Also am on the lookout for research collaborations and opportunities in industries.