Congratulations to Dr. Michael Posa @michaelposa.bsky.social on receiving the 2024 Best Paper Award at the IEEE RAS TC on Model-based Optimization for Robotics! More info here! www.tcoptrob.org/news/2025-04... #GRASP #GRASPLab #BestPaperAward #IEEE2024

We're very excited to introduce TAPNext: a model that sets a new state-of-art for Tracking Any Point in videos, by formulating the task as Next Token Prediction. For more, see: tap-next.github.io

I'm very excited to host the Robotics Worldwide Workshop at MIT with Amanda Prorok next week! We have an incredible lineup of roboticists from around the world who will join us for lightning talks, a panel discussion, and a poster session. Join us if you are in the area!

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

“Responsible AI” is a bad word at NIST now.

US tech firms - IME - rely heavily on grads of higher ed in general, and US higher ed in particular... And yet I've not heard much noise from the Pichais, Nadellas, Zuckerbergs, Cooks, Benioffs, Sus, Jassys, Huangs, etc. about attacks on higher education... Am I missing it or does it not exist?

Real-world RL for the public good! Love to see it!

We're super excited to introduce the Academia Hub! A game-changer for school, university, courses, research, projects, collaborations, publications. Learn more: huggingface.co/docs/hub/aca... It's a per-school offer, not individual => your faculty/admin have to apply Go schools, go universities!

Lots of complexity lies hidden in the little things we take for granted, in manipulation, as in perception. mtmason.com/the-inner-ro...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Pe... An interview with Rich. The humility of Rich is truly inspiring: "There are no authorities in science". I wish people would listen and live by this.

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...