If you’re at ICRA, I’ll be giving at talk at the VLA Pipelines workshop tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 (and on the panel in the morning). Will be chatting about VLA Foundry among other things! tri-ml.github.io/vla_foundry/ icra2026vlapipeline.github.io

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!

Katherine Liu@katherineliu.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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.

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!

Katherine Liu@katherineliu.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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

Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds

simulatingrobotworlds.github.io

🚀 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.

Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds

Join the Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds workshop.

simulatingrobotworlds.github.io

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

Robotics: Science and Systems@roboticsscisys.bsky.social · last yr.

Attending #RSS2025? Do you want to mingle with Toyota Research Institute (TRI) researchers and other RSS attendees in an informal breakfast setting? TRI is organizing a women & allies breakfast on June 24th at 8am! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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!

Accepted Papers | Robotics: Science and Systems

RSS 2025, June 21, 2025 - June 25, 2025, Los Angeles, California

roboticsconference.org

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.

Ben Recht@beenwrekt.bsky.social · last yr.

Guest post! @rajiinio.bsky.social reflects on our machine learning evaluation class (and the chaos of co-teaching with me).

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

Andreas Geiger@andreasgeiger.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to share that today our paper recommender platform www.scholar-inbox.com has reached 20k users! We hope to reach 100k by the end of the year.. Lots of new features are being worked on currently and rolled out soon.

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!

Computer Vision: Fact & Fiction - YouTube

Title Computer Vision: Fact and Fiction Year of Publication 2005 Author(s) Marília Maschion Vincent Rabaud Serge Belongie URL https://vision.ucsd.edu/publica...

youtube.com

Serge Belongie@serge.belongie.com · 2y ago

In 2005 two UCSD students (Marília Maschion and Vincent Rabaud) and I made a documentary about the state-of-the-art in Computer Vision, based on interviews with researchers at CVPR in San Diego, CA (1/5)

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!

Ken Goldberg@ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

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

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.

Robotics Debates

Debates on the Future of Robotics Research Full-Day Hybrid Workshop | May 13th at ICRA 2024 Time: 10:00-16:35 JST | Pacific Convention Plaza Yokohama, Room G411 + Live streaming here!

roboticsdebates.org

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...

Shell Game

One man secretly hands off more and more of his life to an AI voice clone.

radiolab.org

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. ...”

The Beetle Roboticists: A Parable - Matthew T. Mason

How do we assess ideas about humanoids, without our anthropocentric bias? Maybe if the ideas were being pushed by another species. Beetles?

mtmason.com

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

GitHub - SLAM-Handbook-contributors/slam-handbook-public-release: Release repo for our SLAM Handbook

Release repo for our SLAM Handbook. Contribute to SLAM-Handbook-contributors/slam-handbook-public-release development by creating an account on GitHub.

lnkd.in

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.

M.I.T. to Offer Free Tuition to Families Earning Less Than $200,000

For students whose families earn less than $100,000 per year, the school will also other costs, including housing, dining, fees and an allowance for books and personal expenses.

nytimes.com

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

CoRL 2024 Day 1 9:00-10:30

YouTube video by Conference on Robot Learning

youtube.com

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