Blake Chang

undergrad researcher @CILVRatNYU @NYU_Courant #RobotLearning #multimodal #humanoid Dream big and bring the fiction to real life🤖🏎️

[Blake Chang @1bcx3]

Proud to finally share Steertuning!

Incredibly excited to have been a contributor to this work, pushing the boundaries of how quickly robots can learn and adapt to new tasks.

Huge thanks to our amazing team behind this. However, this is just the beginning🤖#DL #robotLearning

[Irmak Guzey @irmakkguzey]

As we get closer to a world where we live among robots, it��s becoming more and more valuable for robots to learn quickly with and from people.

I’m very excited to share Steertuning, a novel approach that adapts robots to new tasks from 5 human demonstrations in under 5 minutes, from demonstration to deployment.

Website: https://t.co/H6l1IseeCz
Code: https://t.co/cqUstbwAgU

[Irmak Guzey @irmakkguzey]

Also quoting this foreshadowing of Steertuning from a few months back. :)

[Irmak Guzey @irmakkguzey]

As the name suggests, Steertuning combines two approaches in robot learning: action steering and finetuning. On its own, action steering overfits to the reference trajectory, and finetuning a large model takes hours or even days. With only 5 minutes of processing time, Steertuning reaches a 71% average success rate across 12 brand-new tasks, 9 of them in a new apartment.

[Jeff Cui @jeffacce]

Robots need to feel where they touch and how forces change. Introducing PanoTac: an open-source, dense 3D tactile sensor for <$10 USD.

Watch as the robot racks a test tube and pulls the stopper: PanoTac tells the tube orientation, and feels when the stopper comes free. 🧵

[Porsche @Porsche]

Mission S.

Everything a sports car needs. Nothing more.

[Lerrel Pinto @LerrelPinto]

Turns out that doing In-context learning for robots is not that hard...

[Lerrel Pinto @LerrelPinto]

I’m sensing deep despair in academics over the past week. Astra, Fable, Muse are zero-shotting benchmarks in robotics & world models.

Uneasy pill to swallow, but this is what step jumps in progress looks like.

[CyberRobo @CyberRobooo]

Boston Dynamics just had a brutal C-suite shakeup

CEO Robert Playter retired in February, the COO and CSO bounced right after, CTO Aaron Saunders jumped ship to Google DeepMind… and a ton of senior engineers and researchers are gone too.

This is happening right as the company gears up for IPO and tries to scale Atlas from flashy lab prototypes into real mass production.

Hyundai (the parent company) is cracking the whip: they want tens of thousands of these humanoids in their factories ASAP.

Basically going from “cool robot video dreamers” to “actual factory workforce suppliers” overnight. Board is in full panic mode. With Optimus, Figure,Unitree and the rest breathing down their necks, losing this much talent at crunch time… oof.