A few years ago, learning robot learning meant stitching together dozens of papers and courses — with no clear path from the basics to what state-of-the-art systems actually do. This was one of the motivations behind creating @ETH's course "Robot Learning: From Fundamentals to Foundation Models", to provide a structured path from first principles all the way to modern foundation models for robotics. I strongly believe that education should be accessible to everyone, so I have made all lecture recordings publicly available on YouTube. Creating this course was one of the most challenging projects I have taken on. It was my first time designing and teaching an entire curriculum from scratch, while simultaneously working full-time in industry. On top of that, the course proved to be more popular than expected and we had to scale it to almost 300 students, which was only possible thanks to an amazing team of TAs. Looking back, it was an absolute privilege to teach this class and an incredibly rewarding experience. If you are getting into robot learning, this is the starting point I wish I had. 📚 Main lectures: youtube.com/watch?v=X0k14u6p… 🎤 Guest lectures: youtube.com/watch?v=aG8NPTPh… 🌐 Course website: cvg.ethz.ch/lectures/Robot-L…

📣 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗙𝗼𝘅 (@fox_dieter17849) 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆'𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝘁 @ETH! Today's speaker almost needs no introduction. Dieter is Professor at the @UW and Senior Research Director at @allen_ai, co-author of the landmark textbook 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀, Fellow of @IEEEorg, @RealAAAI, and @TheOfficialACM, and recipient of the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬 𝗜𝗘𝗘𝗘 𝗣𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 and the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝗜𝗝𝗖𝗔𝗜 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗠𝗰𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱. Today he will be talking about: "𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝘀" 🤖 His talk will cover large-scale data generation for robot manipulation, the role of simulation and sim-to-real transfer, and ongoing work at Ai2 on training models that are genuinely competent across a broad set of tasks — moving beyond narrowly trained, disconnected skills 🚀 If you are in Zürich and want to join us: 📍 Where: Room NO C 60, Sonneggstrasse 5 🕓 When: Today, May 18, 17:00 – 18:00 See you there!