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Pioneering the future of robotics since 1979. We’re transforming industries and everyday life through cutting-edge innovation and world-class education.

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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
10 months
Excited to announce a Docker demo for our newly upgraded navigation system. Pull the image, launch the demo, and guide the navigation in goal-point and smart-joystick modes. Supports CV and AI, working on real robots. 20 Unity scenes available!
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
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CMU Researchers Contribute to NASA’s Autonomous Robot Snake -- to explore moon of Saturn!
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
1 year
Work published in @ScienceMagazine Ji Zhang says "Our robots can autonomously explore and map complex environments and build high-fidelity point cloud maps by themselves, in real-time, with no GPS!" Read more...
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
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Robotics Institute Developing Drones To Fight Wildfires
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
6 months
Our friend and colleague, Dieter Fox, wants to know "Where's RobotGPT?" If you missed his talk, you can watch it here
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
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Assistant Professor Deepak Pathak ( @pathak2206 ) was named to MIT Technology Review’s list of 35 Innovators Under 35 for his work in self-supervised & adaptive robot learning! Congrats, Deepak! 🏆 Learn more about his work and MIT's prestigious list:
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
2 years
New #iros2022 paper! RCA: Ride Comfort-Aware Visual Navigation via Self-Supervised Learning Xinjie Yao, Ji Zhang, Jean Oh Paper: Video:
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
2 months
CMU experts in human-robot interaction propose VoicePilot: a framework + design guidelines for incorporating LLMs as speech interfaces for physically assistive robots 🤖🦾 The paper was accepted at @ACMUIST - held in Pittsburgh this October! Read:
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
1 year
RoboAgent can efficiently learn skills and generalize them in new places. Read where to download and watch the video featuring @Vikashplus @mangahomanga and @m0hitsharma
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
3 years
One week deadline extension (March 27)!!! ICRA 2022 Workshop in Forestry and Robotics … This workshop aims to address recent advances in robotics research and development for forestry applications. May 23 // Philadelphia, PA #ICRA2022
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
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Some great CMU representation at #RSS2024 🤖🚀 Our researchers are constantly driving amazing advancements in the robotics community! #TartanProud
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
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Carnegie Mellon University Payloads Iris, MoonArk Launch as Part of Historic Lunar Mission
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
3 years
IROS 2021 just wrapped up and RI did well! Best paper on Agri-Robotics Finalist for best conference and best student paper Congratulations to the authors!
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
5 months
CMU researchers have developed a framework called Agile But Safe (ABS). ABS allows quadrupedal robots to move extremely fast while maintaining both safety and efficiency! Read more at and watch the team’s featured video:
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
3 months
Congratulations to: Ingrid Navarro, Pablo Ortega-Kral, Jay Patrikar, Haichuan Wang, Zelin Ye, Jong Hoon Park, Jean Oh, and Sebastian Scherer —for winning Best Student Paper at the 2024 @aiaa Conference! 👏
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
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Kshitij Goel Wins 2024 Alan J. Perlis Graduate Student Teaching Award
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
5 months
The Auton Lab has proposed MOMENT: one of the first families of open-source foundation models for time series analysis! The models serve as a building block for diverse tasks such as forecasting, classification, & anomaly detection. Learn more:
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
2 years
From Howie: Congratulations to our very own Fan, Chao, Hongba, Jean and Ji on their best paper award. Chao and Ji were able to use their experience from SubT for this work, so congratulations to Basti and Matt as well.
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
2 years
Can a robot help someone get dressed or clean? New #iros2022 paper "Visual Haptic Reasoning: Estimating Contact Forces by Observing Deformable Object Interactions" explores this and other questions. @YufeiWang25 , @davheld , @ZackoryErickson Read more:
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
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#IROS2024 Best Paper Award! 🎉💥 Congratulations to lead authors Vihaan Misra and Peter Schaldenbrand and professor Jean Oh for their outstanding work! Learn about their award-winning project:
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
8 years
RI Seminar: Sergey Levine : Deep Robotic Learning: via @YouTube
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
2 years
New #iros2022 paper! Acoustic Localization and Communication Using a MEMS Microphone for Low-cost and Low-power Bio-inspired Underwater Robots @AkshayHinduja , Yunsik Ohm, Jiahe Liao, Carmel Majidi, Michael Kaess @rpl_cmu Paper:
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
3 years
Robotics Institute’s Tabitha Lee receives honorable mention for the NCWIT Collegiate Award
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
2 years
DeltaZ is part of #iros2022 ! An Accessible Compliant Delta Robot Manipulator for Research and Education Sarvesh Patil @servo97 , Samuel C. Alvares, Pragna Mannam, Oliver Kroemer @iamlab_cmu , @fzeyneptemel @CMU_ZoomLab Video:
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
2 years
We lost a colleague, dedicated member of the RI Community and a friend. Thank you, Alan.
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
6 years
Amazing.
@ToddJochem
Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D.
6 years
22 years after driving this road daily to develop and test the world’s first self driving cars at @CMU_Robotics , a @tesla MS is driving me to CMU to teach a class about that period of time. None of the students in the class were even alive then! #FullCircle
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
2 years
Are you thinking about attending grad school in CS or robotics? We are excited to announce three information sessions where we’ll talk about the Whys, Whats and Hows of grad school. Check out the website for details:
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
1 year
Howie Choset named the PIPLA 2023 Inventor of the Year Congratulations, Howie!
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
1 year
Congrats to Alvin Shek, Bo Ying Su, Rui Chen and Changliu Liu! Their paper "Learning from Physical Human Feedback: An Object-Centric One-Shot Adaptation Method" received the ICRA Outstanding Interaction Paper award!
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
4 years
Featuring CMU Robotics Institute alum Ben Stevens. Video by Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute.
@WevolverApp
Wevolver
4 years
The Sarcos Robot Project by: @CMU_Robotics We strive to get permission for each peace of content we share, and give credits to the rightful owner. If you feel this is not the case, please send us a DM so we can correct this #tech #design #engineering #research #robotics
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
3 months
Fascinating work in robotics and agriculture coming out of the Robotics Institute! 🌽🤖💡 You can read more about Mark and his team’s project on our news site:
@make_your_maark
Mark Moonyoung Lee
3 months
How can we use AI & robotics for agriculture? 🤖🌽 We present Towards Autonomous Crop Monitoring - accepted into 𝐑𝐀𝐋𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒! Robot inserts sensors in corn stalks to monitor plant nutrients. See paper, additional documentation at 🧵👇 (1/7)
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
1 year
Student orientation week comes to a close and high-fives to ALL of our new students! Thanks for being part of today’s challenge!
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
9 months
Our Robots Wish You a Happy V Day! Thanks to Changliu Liu and the Intelligent Control Lab for sharing the love...
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
1 year
RISLab Receives Honorable Mention for IEEE T-RO King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award Congratulations to Wennie Tabib, Kshitij Goel, John Yao, Curtis Boirum, and Nathan Michael!
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
4 months
Ji Zhang has won the #RSS2024 Test of Time award for his work on LOAM: Lidar Odometry and Mapping in Real-Time! 🏆 Zhang will present a virtual keynote at RSS on July 18th. Read about the 2014 paper that earned the award, + hear Ji talk about this work:
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
3 months
The RI Summer Scholars showcased their research yesterday with a fantastic turnout! 46 undergrads from 11 different countries participated in the program to develop their academic, professional, and personal pursuits. Learn more about the scholars: 👏⭐📝
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
2 years
Congratulations to the MRSD program on their tenth year! #MRSD10 Hagen Schempf via satellite!
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
3 months
Congrats to Yorai Shaoul*, Itamar Mishani*, Maxim Likhachev, and Jiaoyang Li for winning Best Student Paper Award at the @ICAPSConference ! 🏆🦾⭐ Read the paper + see video of simulated multi-robot arm manipulation: * = co-lead researchers
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
2 months
RI researchers have developed Neural Motion Planning for robots. Inspired by how humans gather experiences to practice & increase proficiency, the approach uses a versatile AI network to perform motion planning in household environments. 🤖🏠 Read here:
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
2 years
RISLab Wins SSRR 2022 Best Paper Award
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
2 years
Nominated for #iros2022 Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards! FAR Planner: Fast, Attemptable Route Planner using Dynamic Visibility Update Fan Yang, @ChaoCaoCMU , Hongbiao Zhu, Jean Oh, Ji Zhang
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
2 years
Henny Answers Robot Questions From Twitter for Wired
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
9 months
CMU Robotics Institute Develops System To Detect and Fix Problems in Gas Pipelines
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
2 years
Exciting new work @Wenxuan_Zhou and @davheld features a simple gripper that can solve more complex manipulation tasks if it can utilize the external environment.
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
6 years
Pretty darn awesome
@WevolverApp
Wevolver
6 years
Pliant Energy’s agile swimming amphibious robot demonstrated at the 2017 Naval Future Force Science and Technolgy Expo in Washington D.C. #tech #robotics #engineering #future
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
5 years
Happy Halloween
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
4 months
The Vision-Language-Autonomy Challenge: Happening now! 🧵 (1) The challenge aims to progress computer vision and AI research in real-world systems. Researchers created a navigation autonomy system for the challenge from scratch! Participants will complete several tasks...
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
5 years
Congratulations Shumian Xin, Ioannis Gkioulekas, Aswin Sankaranarayanan and Srinivasa Narasimhan and their U. Toronto colleagues for their CVPR Best Paper Award “A theory of Fermat Paths for Non-Line-of-Sight Shape…
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
28 days
RI researchers partnered with a team from the AI Institute to design a framework that imitates the unique trials and errors of human learning 🧠🧐 #CoRL2024 Read about this groundbreaking work:
@mendonca_rl
Russell Mendonca
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Our CoRL 2024 paper shows Reinforcement Learning can allow robots to learn skills via real-world practice, without any demonstrations or simulation engineering. Rewards are provided using language/vision models, and mobility of robots enables autonomous exploration. 1/N
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
2 years
Folding clothes and cooking tasks are two tasks where deformable object manipulation is key. Manipulating elastoplastic objects such as dough is particularly challenging. Read more about this #iros2022 work from @carl_qi98 , @Xingyu2017 , @davheld
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
3 months
Agile But Safe (ABS) is getting recognition at #RSS2024 ! Great news from the LeCAR lab 🎉
@GuanyaShi
Guanya Shi
3 months
So excited that ABS is the RSS Outstanding Student Paper Award nominee! Very proud of @TairanHe99 @ChongZitaZhang @_wenlixiao @guanqi_he Fully open-sourced code: Also, big congratulations to the winning paper about contact-implicit MPC by @MichaelAPosa
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
5 years
Carnegie Mellon Robot, Art Project To Land on Moon in 2021 CMU Becomes Space-Faring University With Payloads Aboard Astrobotic Lander PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University is going to the moon, sending a robotic…
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
2 years
#iros2022 here we come! Online Kinematic Calibration for Legged Robots Shuo Yang, Howie Choset, Zachary Manchester @cmurexlab Video: Paper:
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
3 years
ICRA 2022 Workshop in Forestry and Robotics This workshop aims to address recent advances in robotics research and development for forestry applications. May 23 // Philadelphia, PA
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
5 months
Thanks to all of the students in the Spacecraft-Design-Build-Fly class! Video: Build a real cube satellite with Zac Manchester @zacinaction and Brandon Lucia @blucia0a
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
1 year
Congrats to the team @YufeiWang2 Zhanyi Sun and @davheld behind the #RSS2023 paper "One Policy to Dress Them All: Learning to Dress People with Diverse Poses and Garments"
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
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CMU research is flourishing at #SIGGRAPH2024 ! CMU authors collaborated on 12 papers, with two best papers 🏆 & two honorable mentions 🏅 in the SIGGRAPH Technical Papers Awards 👏🧠💥 Congratulations to all for their amazing work! Find all info here:
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
6 years
The snakes rock on!
@RobotAndAIWorld
Robot&AIWorld
6 years
Snake #robots might come in handy for surgery, search-and-rescue missions, and even space exploration—but they’re nothing without the slithering serpents that inspire their design. Story via @novapbs . Video via @CMU_Robotics
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
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Congratulations to Changliu Liu, who received the Young Investigator Award at the 2024 International Symposium on Flexible Automation! 👏🏆 The award honors outstanding young investigators working in the field. Read more about it here ➡️
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
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More fascinating work from CMU accepted to #CoRL2024 🧠💡⭐️ Check out the team’s project below ⬇️⬇️ Congrats to @nikos_gkanats @TWAdaizai and @KaterinaFragiad !!
@nikos_gkanats
Nikos Gkanatsios
8 months
3D representations are more critical than what we thought for manipulation. Our work 3D Diffuser Actor marries those with policy diffusion and achieves a new SOTA on both RLBench and CALVIN! 🦾 with Tsung-Wei @TWAdaizai and Katerina @KaterinaFragiad
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
5 years
Fall 2019 CMU Robotics Institute Seminar Series videos will continue to be compiled here
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
6 years
😎
@EvanKirstel
Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
6 years
Uber builds the fake city of Almono to test #DriverlessCars , located just outside of Pittsburgh via @MikeQuindazzi >>> #AI #IoT #AutonomousVehicles #AR #Robotics #CES2019 ⁠ ⁠
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
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Changliu Liu Receives Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Champion Award Congratulations, Changliu!
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
4 years
Excellent!
@SCSatCMU
CMU School of Computer Science
4 years
Congratulations to Michael Kaess @CMU_Robotics , who shares the inaugural @RoboticsSciSys Test of Time Award with Frank Dellaert of @GeorgiaTech , a Ph.D. alum of SCS.
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
2 years
Traversing intersections is a challenging problem for autonomous vehicles, let alone ones without traffic lights. New #iros2022 paper "State Dropout-Based Curriculum Reinforcement Learning for Self-Driving at Unsignalized Intersections" from @shiveshkhaitan and John Dolan
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
5 years
Robotics Institute PhD student, Tess Hellebrekers, work is featured in this article about Carmel Majidi’s Soft Machines Lab
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
4 months
CMU's Yuichi Hirose, Mark Gillespie, Angelica Bonilla Fominaya, + James McCann present a unique fabrication technique: Solid Knitting @solidknit The paper was selected for honorable mention @ #SIGGRAPH2024 + the work is highlighted on the SIGGRAPH blog!
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
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Congrats to MSCV student Aviral Agrawal & his team for acceptance into #CVPR2024 ! "Listen Then See: Video Alignment with Speaker Attention" proposes a new method for Socially Intelligent Question Answering using audio to improve video/text understanding.
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
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Check out Howie Choset's recent co-authored paper: "Geometric phase predicts locomotion performance in undulating living systems across scales", now published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @PNASNews ! Read it here:
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
5 years
“The Secret History of Facial Recognition” in Wired Feb 2020 is a great read and talks about the tech pre and post Kanade
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
2 years
Congrats Mohit and Oliver of the @iamlab_cmu on #iros2022 paper "Efficiently Learning Manipulations by Selecting Structured Skill Representations"
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
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CONGRATS to CMU PhD Bailey Miller + his team for winning a Best Student Paper Honorable Mention award at #CVPR2024 ! Their paper develops a theory for modeling light transport on probabilistic descriptions of solid geometry. Read about this achievement!
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@CMU_Robotics
CMU Robotics Institute
5 years
Go Katia, go!
@CarnegieMellon
Carnegie Mellon University
5 years
Our researchers are leading a @DARPA project that aims to use machine social intelligence to improve teamwork.
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