Ever wondered which data from large datasets (like OXE) actually helps when training/tuning a policy for specific tasks? We present DataMIL, a framework for measuring how each training sample influences policy performance, hence enabling effective data selection 🧵

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? 🧵👇

Our collaborative paper with UT Austin's Nuclear & Applied Robotics Group published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO). Here, we propose a closed-chain approach for generating joint trajectories for a generic robotic manipulator in real time. Texas Robotics UT Mech Engineering Texas Engineering ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11049… m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukv93h…

3D print tactile sensors anywhere inside your fin-ray fingers! We present FORTE - a solution to sensorize compliant fingers from inside with high resolution force and slip sensing. 🌐merge-lab.github.io/FORTE/ With precise and responsive tactile feedback, FORTE can gently handle

Miss me? See you in Brazil Robocup on 7.15!

Listen to a short podcast with IFML leaders Adam Klivans, Alex Dimakis (Alex Dimakis) and Sanjay Shakkottai. The team discusses IFML's success in its first 5 years and how the renewed investment from U.S. National Science Foundation will advance #GenAI research across industries. ➡️ifml.institute/node/542

Excited that Casper 👻 is accepted to CoRL 2025! #CoRL2025 A big thank you to all the collaborators :)

Congrats to Jiaxun Cui, the 29th Ph.D. graduate from my lab, on the defense of her dissertation entitled "Communication and Generalization in Multi-Agent Learning". Pictured here with me and the rest of her thesis committee (Amy Zhang, Yuke Zhu, Sandeep Chinchali, Yuandong Tian)

RoboCup 2025 at Salvador was a massive learning experience to witness the performance of robots in the real world In RoboCup@Home DSPL, our Team UT Austin Villa@Home finished 2nd place with good competition from Hibikino-Musashi@Home, RoboCanes-VISAGE, and rUNSWeep Texas Robotics

🚀 Generating synthetic training data for code LLM in robotics? 🤖 Frustrated with too many programs that look correct but actually invalid? Introducing Robo-Instruct — a simulator-augmented framework that: ✅ Verifies programs against robot API constraints ✅ Aligns

Melinda French Gates and her team at Pivotal Ventures visited Texas Robotics and our lab. In particular, this visit featured one of our amazing PhD students, Mobina Tavangarifard . To learn more, please watch the following video: youtu.be/g5xum93WZig Texas Engineering UT Mech Engineering UT Austin

Intelligent humanoids should have the ability to quickly adapt to new tasks by observing humans Why is such adaptability important? 🌍 Real-world diversity is hard to fully capture in advance 🧠 Adaptability is central to natural intelligence We present MimicDroid 👇 🌐

Excited to share that I'll be joining UT Austin in Fall 2026 as an Assistant Professor with UT Mech Engineering Texas Robotics! I'm looking for PhD students interested in humanoids, dexterous manipulation, tactile sensing, and robot learning in general -- consider applying this cycle!

How can robots follow complex instructions in dynamic environments? 🤖 Meet ComposableNav — a diffusion-based planner that enables robots to generate novel navigation behaviors that satisfy diverse instruction specifications on the fly — no retraining needed. 📄 Just accepted

Excited that SPARTA (vision.cs.utexas.edu/projects/spart…) won the best poster award at the CoRL RINO workshop! Big congrats to the project lead Priyanka, who worked so hard on this project, as well as to the rest of the co-authors Shivin Dass Sagnik Majumder Roberto and Kristen!

🚨CoRL 2025 Best Poster Award 🏆 Paper Alert 🚨 ➡️Paper Title: Mash, Spread, Slice! Learning to Manipulate Object States via Visual Spatial Progress 🌟Few pointers from the paper 🎯Most robot manipulation focuses on changing the kinematic state of objects: picking, placing,

Wrapping up a wonderful visit to Texas Robotics and Computer Science at UT Austin to give a FAI+Texas Robotics seminar. robotics.utexas.edu/events Thanks Roberto Martin-Martin, Peter Stone , Joydeep Biswas, Volkan Isler !

A little late to this but excited to share that DataMIL won the best paper at the Data workshop at #CoRL! If you haven't already, check it out! 👇

Have you ever wanted to pet a longhorn? At Texas Robotics, we put our own little Texan spin on some classic tactile illusions! Come check out some very touch-friendly swag at our exhibit booth tomorrow 10-2 at White Cane Day at TSBVI! TSBVI Outreach whitecaneday.org