Also: if you are interested in working on VLAs/LBMs, my group is recruiting interns! I’m particularly interested in improving 3D reasoning in embodied foundation models. Come find me to chat if this sounds interesting to you!

I’ll be in Seoul for #CoRL2025 this week, helping run the Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds workshop. I'll also be at the TRI booth and the TRI Women and Allies Breakfast. Come say hello or DM me! Looking forward to seeing everyone in person.

We've extended the deadline to August 25th, 2025 🎉 Hope this helps any submissions that didn't quite make it in by the 18th. If you're working on robot simulation please consider submitting!

Are you working on real-to-sim, sim-to-real, learning world models, or using physics based simulators to do interesting robotics tasks? There are 15 days to the submission deadline for our CoRL workshop Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds. More details here simulatingrobotworlds.github.io/submit.html

🚀 We’re pleased to announce our workshop at CoRL 2025: Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds! Workshop website: simulatingrobotworlds.github.io The workshop aims to cover topics like physics-grounded simulation, photorealistic digital twins, AI-controlled simulators, to learned neural world models.

Come hang out! We ran a similar event at CoRL last year that was really fun.

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN!!!! Time to wake up early and go watch birds at the @cvprconference.bsky.social #CVBirdWalk Friday, June 13th, from 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM at the scenic Shelby Bottoms Nature Center & Greenway (1900 Davidson St, Nashville, TN 37206). maps.app.goo.gl/Km8oWJzgVQyo...

Something that really stood out to me this ICRA was the diversity of robots in Expo hall. For a while there I’ve been seeing only humanoids and quadrupeds. This year I saw quadrotors, a cool inverted pendulum, espresso making robots, and more. Special thanks to everyone who brought a weird robot!

📢 Check out the list of accepted papers for Robotics: Science and Systems 2025: roboticsconference.org/program/pape... 📜 You can also find the complete conference program here: roboticsconference.org/program/over... 🌴 We look forward to seeing you at #RSS2025 in Los Angeles June 21st-25th!

I'll be at #ICRA2025 and #RSS2025 this year 🎉. Send me event/paper/food recommendations!

Wrote a bit this morning on my own early reflections on teaching this class - in short, ML evaluation has been a neglected sore spot of the field since its inception & the class opened all of us up to embracing the complexity of this problem! Excited to see this course evolve in future iterations.

I use Scholar Inbox to get really targeted paper recommendations -- I definitely recommend trying it out if you haven't yet!

Computer Vision: Fact & Fiction is now available on YouTube 🙌🏼 I made a playlist for it with the seven chapters. Enjoy this time capsule from two decades ago!

The debaters (Harold Soh, Jeannette Bogh, Nadia Figueroa, Chad Jenkins) did a great job talking strong stances. Watch until the end to hear what they actually personally think. And unsurprisingly, @ken-goldberg.bsky.social was a wonderful moderator!

Just discovered the recordings of the debates this year at ICRA. As usual, it was a very popular event. It's easily often the highlight of the conference for me, very cool that they're uploaded! I wish an event of this type was held at every conference.

This podcast, about letting a chatbot + voice clone armed with information about you loose in your personal life, was an uncomfortable listen. radiolab.org/podcast/shel...

Let's make AI more inclusive. At @huggingface.bsky.social we'll launch a huge community sprint soon to build high-quality training datasets for many languages. We're looking for Language Leads to help with outreach. Find your language and nominate yourself: forms.gle/iAJVauUQ3FN8...

Just a heads up to everyone: @deep-mind.bsky.social is unfortunately a fake account and has been reported. Please do not follow it nor repost anything from it.

Wonderful blog post by Matt Mason: mtmason.com/the-beetle-r... Quote from it: “... When humans have to handle things not designed for their hands, it’s all tools! Look at their dentists and surgeons. Look at their watchmakers. ...”

We are in the process of editing a SLAM handbook, to be published by Cambridge University Press, with many *stellar* contributors. Part 1 is available as an online draft for public comments. Help us find bugs/problems! Link to release repo is here: lnkd.in/gZhTkaxb

What cool applications of diffusion have folks seen outside of the popular ones like text-to-image, image-to-3D, Diffusion Policy, etc?

MIT announced that it would eliminate tuition costs next fall for all undergraduate students whose families earn less than $200,000 per year — following a national movement to try to make higher education more accessible.

I created a List to keep track of conferences in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Robotics:

NeurIPS Conference is now Live on Bluesky! -NeurIPS2024 Communication Chairs

Full CoRL conference recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0joZ... Someone remind me to watch this later

Future Bsky homes for our #computervision conferences! @cvprconference.bsky.social @iccv.bsky.social @eccv.bsky.social @wacvconference.bsky.social Stay tuned!

By way of introduction, I thought I’d take a moment to share and rate some of the robots I’ve worked on/with. 🧵

A starter pack of starter packs: Robotics and AI go.bsky.app/DfAoaJ1 Computer Vision go.bsky.app/PkAKJu5 Computer Graphics Research go.bsky.app/ckQ1u9 Grumpy Machine Learners go.bsky.app/6ddpivr Reinforcement Learning go.bsky.app/3WPHcHg