@hadmoni

Associate Professor, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon Univ. I make robots that help people live more independent, happier lives. She/her.

 Pittsburgh, PA
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Joined February 2011
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Thank you for the opportunity to share some of the cool robotics research @CMU_Robotics
Senator Dan Laughlin@senatorlaughlin15 Sep 2023
Tune in today to the PA Senate Policy Committee Hearing to hear from @MikeEmbrescia @hadmoni @jamesindc as they dicuss cutting edge robotics technology in Pennsylvania.
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@hadmoni at @PASenateGOP Policy Hearing: My goal is to make robots that improve people's quality of life.
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There has been much noise around the fathers and godfathers of Artificial Intelligence, but how about its mothers? Let's start with Ada Lovelace, often regarded as the first computer programmer, and wrote the first algorithm meant to be run on a computer.
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HARP Lab@harp_lab_cmu31 Mar 2023
Congratulations to Abhijat Biswas for completing his PhD thesis proposal on Eye Gaze for Intelligent Driving! 🎉🎉🎉
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🌟Update🌟there's been a lot of debate of whether Theory of Mind (ToM) has emerged in new models (ChatGPT/GPT-3.5/GPT4), as people have reported qualitative/anecdotal evidence of good performance on these types of examples. TLDR; still no neural ToM... 🧵 xitter.cf/MaartenSap/status/1587…
Maarten Sap (he/him)@MaartenSap1 Nov 2022
Have you ever wondered whether large neural networks like GPT3 acquire💭Theory-of-Mind-like abilities🧠? And whether they could achieve human-like🤝🏼social intelligence👥 just by reading insanely large amounts of text? We find they don't have Theory-of-Mind and examine why🧵
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dharini@quarkytale13 Mar 2023
At @HRI_Conference in Stockholm, learning more about benchmarking research through open source ecosystems. (pic) @hadmoni in action! #HRI2023 #robotics #workshop
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I’m in Stockholm for #HRI2023, but I had some time to walk around an epic sci-fi/game store in Gamla Stan (@sfbok). It’s always so fun to see my friends’ work internationally, so I have to brag.👇
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Next, a swords-and-sorcery RPG called “Swords of the Serpentine” by my dear friend @KevinKulp. This one is very beginner friendly, and I thoroughly enjoyed it when I played. (That could also be because Kevin is a legendary GM.)
Close-up of books on a shelf including Swords of the Serpentine by Kevin Kulp and Emily Dresner. Sign above in Swedish says “Rollspel Engelska.”

ALT Close-up of books on a shelf including Swords of the Serpentine by Kevin Kulp and Emily Dresner. Sign above in Swedish says “Rollspel Engelska.”

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And finally, of course, Pandemic Legacy by THE @robdaviau. If you haven’t played this game, you should.
Three boxes of Pandemic Legacy board game on a shelf.

ALT Three boxes of Pandemic Legacy board game on a shelf.

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1/ ChatGPT is an impressive parlor trick, but it is not something that we should view as intelligent (i.e., able to reason able novel problems). Others have “broken” ChatGPT, but I wanted to see it for myself. A 🧵 …
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BIG NEWS! As of 9am this morning, I'm the Director of CMU's brand-new Center for Transformational Play. We build community, make games, do research, and connect our work to the world. Looking forward to doing cool things with YOU. More here: cs.cmu.edu/news/2022/ctp-lau…
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In Britt Young’s October 2022 IEEE Spectrum cover story, she discusses the challenges she and others with missing limbs face in a two-handed world, as well as how the bionic-hand technology intended to come to the rescue falls short. spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-fu…

Bionic Hands Haven’t Fully Grasped Users’ Needs

The prosthetics industry is too focused on high-tech limbs that are complicated, costly, and often impractical.

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Last month I had the distinct honor of attending the first US-Africa Frontiers in Science, Engineering, and Medicine symposium, hosted jointly by @theNASEM and @AASciences in Nairobi, Kenya. It was amazing. Here's a video of the experience. vimeo.com/774346176

US-Africa Frontiers.mp4

This is "US-Africa Frontiers.mp4" by The National Academies on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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My 15 minutes of fame.
WIRED
@WIRED22 Nov 2022
Robotics professor @hadmoni answers the internet's burning questions about robots!

Robotics Professor Answers Robot Questions From Twitter

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Are you thinking about attending grad school in CS or robotics? Not sure how to apply? @CMU_Robotics is holding three information sessions this week where we’ll talk about the Whys, Whats and Hows of grad school. Check out the website for details: ri.cmu.edu/why-what-and-how-…
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This is really good advice about writing a Statement of Purpose for PhD applications. It's not the only way to structure your SOP, but it's a great template! And more importantly, it gets you to articulate *why* you want a PhD, which is most important.
Roman Feiman@RomanFeiman27 Oct 2022
Every year I read a lot of grad school applications from accomplished people that don't give me the info I'm looking for. It feels like a major hidden curriculum thing. So here's (my opinion on) how to write a great Statement of Purpose/Research for a PhD program. 🧵 1/
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This. All of this.
billions of packets@justinesherry7 Jul 2022
I have nothing but eyerolls for the men on this site aspiring to the "three hours of work just thinking" ivory tower life. First of all: how much does a gallon of milk cost? How long has it been since you last ordered groceries?
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Epic way to begin a conference @RoboticsSciSys. At least we didn’t have to sit through a million previews. youtu.be/B5KmmPmmgpk

RSS: We make robotics better

Life after COVID means that we must now open our conferences by tha...

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Today is the first day of the main #RSS2022 conference! many cool #robotics talks, including a keynote presentation by @RaquelUrtasun (11:30am ET) and an Early Career Spotlight talk by Henny @hadmoni (3pm ET). Youtube broadcast link: youtu.be/qI0zvRp-UnE
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