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Looking forward to presenting 8 new robotics research papers w/ students from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social at the IEEE International Conf on Robotics and Automation in Atlanta 20-24 May. Links to our papers, videos, and draft workshop papers etc here: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

“….This small exhibition delivered insight, knowledge, new ways of seeing, experiencing, and enhancing the health of our cities....  its works are deep, large and expansive." @Forbes Magazine published a review of my exhibit w/ @tiffanyshlain.bsky.social Read here-> forbes.com/sites/tomteich

They seem to be doing incredibly useful work ;)

Fun talking with Steve Levitt of @freakonomics.bsky.social about AI, robots, randomness, art, humanoids, and how @AmbiRobotics is closing the 100,000 year data gap. t.co/qfomE9lyWa

Sign of the times: some Europeans employers are now quietly advising employees to get temporary laptops and phones when traveling to the United States — much as U.S. employers have long advised employees to do when visiting China or Russia.

ChatGPT can help write an essay. Scientists want it to start folding laundry. Source: @npr.org radio www.npr.org/2025/03/17/n...

Igniting the real robot revolution requires closing the “data gap” 🤖 Imagine a future where #robots handle billions of items with AI to support an aging population that doesn’t have enough human workers. Looking fwd to presenting at Nvidia #GTC25 on 18 March 1pm: www.nvidia.com/gtc/session-...

Grr. I'm required to complete 7 online training sessions. All of the topics are important, but I wish I could just read summaries and take quizzes. Forcing us to watch videos about mostly obvious material for hours feels like something out of Clockwork Orange...

@ken-goldberg.bsky.social and I are heading down to #LA for the Frieze Art Fair for our last artist-led tours of our #Getty PST Art Exhibition “Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology" at the Skirball Join us on either Thurs, Feb 20th 2pm Fri, Feb 21st, 2pm RSVP ancientwisdom.art/events

“A-Ha! Moments in Art and Science" -- those Eureka flashes of insight where new ideas suddenly snap into place: Join artists @tiffanyshlain.bsky.social , and writers @GeoffManaugh and @NicolaTwilley for a lively conversation tomorrow : Sunday 12-1pm at the @skirball.bsky.social Center in LA.

Love discussing art and robots with @debbiemillman.bsky.social and @tiffanyshlain.bsky.social — two brilliant and creative women! Around 20 mins in we consider if a human-AI team will make an important discovery in 2025. I’m usually skeptical but I think this could happen… t.co/EKnDPwu2AX

.@AmbiRobotics launches AmbiStack: an AI-based palletizer trained with Reinforcement Learning to adapt on-the-fly to varying box sizes to optimize packing density: techcrunch.com/2025/01/28/a...

Here's an index into last week's Armchair Expert discussion about @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social , the history of robots, Moravec's paradox, why robot dexterity is so challenging, why some people are AI doomsayers, Aha! moments in discovery and other topics: bit.ly/Ken-on-Armch...

Super fun to be on this podcast discussing robots and life in general with Dax and Monica: youtube.com/@armchairexp...

I agree this is a very attractive form-factor and binary grasping of soft objects is feasible, not time-critical, and fault tolerant. And r eminds me of “Thing” from Addams Family:

Real robot data is rare (and precious). 2 years before ChatGPT, @AmbiRobotics robots started collecting high-quality data in real warehouses. Today, Ambi announces a generative AI model that opens the door to a new generation of warehouse robots: businesswire.com/news/home/2025…

Let’s live it up! Unless you are older than 87 or plan to live another 91 years, this is our only chance to experience a year that’s a perfect square.

“The idea of robots and all of those things, while it may be great for garnering headlines, it’s not practical for the vast majority of restaurants.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/b...

Stone has being doing some of the coolest sim work for a while now so this thorough simulator comparison is really helpful. It also matches up: there's usually no free lunch in simulation so if you claim a speedup you need to drop something somewhere and it looks like what they dropped was physics

A computer systems perspective on integrated (modular and hybrid) large models with good old fashioned engineering (GOFE): arxiv.org/abs/2412.05299 @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @databricks.bsky.social

Calling all roboticists…

I went to Mauthausen death camp in 1998. The train conductor denied that it existed and sent me in the wrong direction. when I finally got there it was closing time and empty but I went in to look around. when I tried to leave the front gate was locked. It was getting dark and I’ll never forget.

Nice insight MW. Word cloud tools and Claude advance a long history going back to chisels and cameras designed by designers like you. #HomoHabilus

I just did a live radio interview and the questions were typical: Are robots going to become sentient and take over the world? When am I going to get my home robot? 🤖

A computer systems perspective on integrated (modular and hybrid) large models with good old fashioned engineering (GOFE): arxiv.org/abs/2412.05299 @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @databricks.bsky.social

Thanks to everyone who was there last night! We’ll perform four 30-min demonstrations for kids of all ages tomorrow 1-3pm @exploratorium.bsky.social t.co/JJua3LQsjc

Using Kevin Black’s conversion rate, that works out to π_0 trained on 1 person-year of robot data vs. Qwen trained on 120,000 person-years of LLM data:

This is an excellent robotics survey paper contrasting deep learning “implicit” models (data driven) with the long history of “explicit” models (Good Old Fashioned Engineering) and calling for methods that integrate both.

1) Cruise, the embattled driverless car company, is officially getting out of the robotaxi business, according to its majority owner General Motors. Last year, we took you along on a Cruise of our own, but you might remember our ride took an unexpected turn.

Using Kevin Black’s conversion rate, that works out to π_0 trained on 1 person-year of robot data vs. Qwen trained on 120,000 person-years of LLM data:

Is this a mask?

But why is he leaving the @nytimes.com ? He’s consistently insightful.

Excited to be invited to give the next BayCHI talk on Tue 10 Dec 7:30pm at OtherLab in SF. Come join us for a fun event! ⚡️ baychi.org/calendar/202...

Looking fwd to visiting the great roboticists @USC tomorrow. viterbi.usc.edu/calendar/?ev...

Breathless: A robot - human dance performance created by @CatieCua and @Ken-Goldberg @Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, Thurs, 12 Dec 2024, 7:30-9:30pm. Tickets: www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calend...

Looking fwd to giving a tour with @TiffanyShlain of our @getty @PST_ART art exhibit @ Skirball in LA on Sunday starting at 6 pm and then screening some of our “smart and cheeky” short films ;): www.skirball.org/programs/sho...

Korea employs 1 industrial robot for every 10 human workers, the highest density in the world (3.5x more than the US). newsweek.com/south-korea-... @newsweek.com

Insightful and well-written:

The anecdote in the Hard Fork podcast may have been intended as—and should definitely be interpreted as—an apt and colorful analogy one researcher perceived between Arrival and the simultaneity of processing in Transformers. It won't bear much weight as a literal claim about historical causality.

TY for this nice review! (I hope @ICRA2025 reviewers react similarly).

And it begins! 🚀 OpenAI takes a bold yet expected step, blending search and AI with its new browser extension. Move over, Google – ChatGPT enters the arena. Will it redefine search with conversational answers or become another fruitless challenge to Google's throne? 🔍💡 #OpenAI #AI

Really enjoyed my conversation last week with Jonathan Hurst of Agility Robotics -- about humanoid robots in general and his in particular. And now it's up! Listen and learn why human-shaped robots are multiplying so fast in 2024.

🙏🏻 Katherine!

The "Generative AI will make a lot of traditional robotics approaches obsolete" debate was pretty lively!

Interesting article but the author drank the Kool-Aid and never sought out other viewpoints: “Foundation models like GPT-4 have largely subsumed [previous] models that help robots with planning and vision, and locomotion and dexterity will probably soon be subsumed, too.”

Using the maps from his daily runs, Duncan McCabe took the Strava art trend to new heights by creating an animated stickman that has become an online sensation.

3 days of keynotes, 10-min paper talks, and 1-min spotlights on the latest research, all free and open to anyone interested! Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) talks are now online: youtube.com/watch?v=0joZwi…#Roboticsc#DeepLearningn#CoRL202424

Am I the only one? Everytime I see bsky I think of banksy.