Savage Sebastian Thrun ! One could argue the same for autonomous driving vs more chauffeurs! Perhaps, there is an allure in attempting to hard technological challenges. Creating transformative tech will change the social perspective (including unit economics) on a decadal

New USC Robotics Blog Post! 🤖📝 On how we're blending LLMs with Classical Planners to create smarter, more efficient robot task plans. Read the full blog here: rasc.usc.edu/blog/language-… Special thanks to Gautam Salhotra for the editing help! 🙌 #AI #Robotics #LLMs #Planning

Tesla is enlisting people to help collect training data for its humanoid Optimus robots, offering up to $48/hr. Animesh Garg says the company has its work cut out to keep pace with competing robotics companies. finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-hir…

🎉 Thrilled to share that I'll be starting my TT faculty journey as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Northeastern U.'s Khoury College of Computer Sciences of Computing in Fall'25! I'll also serve as the faculty lead for Human-centered Computing Initiative in Responsible Governance &

ICLR 2025 will host selected TMLR papers at the conference, continuing a pilot partnership from last year. Details in our latest blog post: blog.iclr.cc/2024/08/22/icl…

🎺 Announcing our CoRL 2024 “Learning Robot Fine and Dexterous Manipulation: Perception and Control” in Munich. Join us to hear from an incredible lineup of speakers! And don’t miss the opportunity to submit your work and participate! Checkout: dex-manipulation.github.io/corl2024/

Solving humanoid robotics is a decadal challenge with near immense impact. This decade is like 1975-85s and a new form of personal computing is taking shape - a physical one. This goal requires some of the reasoning to be axiomatic, since there is no ladder to the moon, must

18 months in to the company, tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button! We have 13 in stock today, go to our website (link on the tiny corp) to buy one. The $15k tinybox red is the best perf/$ ML box in the world. It's fully networkable, so that's the metric that matters.

A skeptic’s guide to humanoid-robot videos trib.al/xdABnbc

#NeurIPS 2024 - AC long weekend! I am observing a lot of Anchoring bias in the reviewing process Reviewers do not budge (a lot) from initial ratings, and resulting in a lot of papers ending up with AC to decide. Let us say 4-4-4-4 raised to 5-5-4-4 upon rebuttal I would

We are happy to announce our upcoming workshop “Mastering Robot Manipulation in a World of Abundant Data”, to be held at #CoRL2024 in Munich! Visit our website to check out the exciting lineup of speakers and see how you can contribute: dynsyslab.org/mastering-robo….

It is amazing to see Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson at it to create magic! WorldLabs' vision of spatial intelligence has been in Fei-Fei's plans for over 10 years. It has inspired so many in the current generation already. 3D representation of a world you can walk through, interact

we debated the upper limit on number of papers ICLR 2025 We came across non-intuitive conclusions. The accept rate of prolific authors (>10) papers is actually higher than that of the rest. So barring them from submitting is keeping out good work. On the contrary the number

What drives me to the office every morning is the incredible energy around Georgia Tech in Midtown Atlanta, surrounded by landmarks like IBM Tower and Google. The buzz fills me with hope that our future innovators might build the next Google/IBM right here in the Southeast US🐝