PhD @UMRobotics in robot learning & deformable object manipulation

Cambridge, MA
Joined April 2015
I have several colleagues now who are too young to have ever used ROS 1 😭💀⚰️
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I suppose this move! If you don't want to support DEI initiatives that's your right, but I'm glad PSF is sticking to their values.
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Thought provoking question for everyone at ICRA: Do we need to achieve dexterity anthropomorphic hands before we can achieve dexterity with other grippers? By dexterity I mean ~adult human level. Any by other grippers I mean parallel jaw, suction, etc. more in thread!
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On the other hand, suction or parallel jaw are simpler, easier to simulate or model. And the hardware is better so we can gather real world data more cheaply and with less time spent fixing/replacing things.
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Please share your thoughts in replies or find me and tell me what you think!
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I will be at #ICRA2025 with @BerkshireGrey Excited to see everyone and talk about robots!
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I'm looking for recommendations for an optical flow model that's up to date and easy to use (unlike mmflow), and fast (<40ms, unlike flowformer)!
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These arrows are so confusing I hate it
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Click for the full image.... stupid twitter cropping.
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When you hear "the sky is the limit", maybe it's actually "we don't know when it will stop working"
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I thought it would be a fun easy task to automatically go through all the CoRL papers and find all the papers that propose a method using behavior cloning.... I'm finding it surprisingly hard to find a good method?!? Any suggestions?
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I tried using pymupdf but I can't figure out even simple things like "get me the text by section"... ChatGPT assistants seem are my best attempt but they are $$$ and slow
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You MUST read "So you think you can scale up autonomous robot data collection?" arxiv.org/abs/2411.01813 A hype-free and practical study of some real and often overlooked challenges! Thanks @suvir_m, @DorsaSadigh et al.
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Kinda last minute, but is anyone from @Voxel51 here at #CoRL2024 ? Would love to chat tomorrow.
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Lmao bro is putting @KarlPertsch out of a job in front of everyone at #CoRL2024 😂 🔥
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And it turns out that beating Karl can get you a CoRL best paper finalist! 😂
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If you're presenting a paper at #CoRL2024 and would like me check it out, let me know!
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