Klaus Lex

ME & Robotics Grad
biomimetics, humanoids, legged locomotion & soft robotics ❤️

Occassional local German rambling.

[Klaus Lex @Klaus_Lex]

daily reminder 🗓️

[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

@Klaus_Lex We're trying, but we can't do it all ourselves.
https://t.co/Ga4F1Arlgj

[Klaus Lex @Klaus_Lex]

Found it:

https://t.co/1Puq9Z0o0Y

[Klaus Lex @Klaus_Lex]

Think just yesterday I read someone say basically “it’s all imitation learning anyway”..?

[Klaus Lex @Klaus_Lex]

@AliaHumanoid I've sadly only had little time to dab into that myself moving some Unitree quadruped in MuJoCo, but also felt like what I & my peers achieved in this short time felt rather artificial - So this is indeed very valuable insight, thank you!

[Klaus Lex @Klaus_Lex]

Think just yesterday I read someone say basically “it’s all imitation learning anyway”..?

[Alia Humanoid @AliaHumanoid]

This is what happens when you stop telling a humanoid how to walk — and start showing it one motion to imitate. Left: a hand-crafted reward → stiff, robotic gait. Right: imitate one reference motion → natural gait. Built on open-source mjlab

[Klaus Lex @Klaus_Lex]

Also:

If someone tells you: "I don't want to see any of this AI shit".

Don't be a fuckin disrespectful piece of shit and continue shoving AI in their fuckin face you fuckin prick.

[Klaus Lex @Klaus_Lex]

Apparently this needs to be said, but:

If someone asks you a question.. DONT DROP LINKS TO FUCKIN GOOGLE OR FUCKIN CHATGPT

Like we ain't too fuckin' dumb to use some stupid clanker ourselves.

We just had respect for you as a person & the knowledge you've built so far.

[Klaus Lex @Klaus_Lex]

Apparently this needs to be said, but:

If someone asks you a question.. DONT DROP LINKS TO FUCKIN GOOGLE OR FUCKIN CHATGPT

Like we ain't too fuckin' dumb to use some stupid clanker ourselves.

We just had respect for you as a person & the knowledge you've built so far.

[Klaus Lex @Klaus_Lex]

Wholeheartedly agree

[Emerson S @Em_Nomadic]

Open source projects like this one accelerate the entire field by putting the architecture in public hands.

Find us on https://t.co/ErKebUicoX

[Aviv Tamar @AvivTamar1]

We can, for the first time, visualize 3D inner structure of soft objects from artificial touch!

Super excited about the future possibilities of this technology in medicine, robotics and beyond. Check it out!

#RSS2026

[Dominique Paul @DominiqueCAPaul]

Over the last few years, I’ve met so many people working on robot learning across Zurich’s academic labs, start-ups, and big tech.

What keeps surprising me is how little exchange happens between these groups.

To change that, I’m starting a Robotics AI Paper Club for researchers, engineers, and anyone looking to get deeper into the field.

Wrote a paper or method yourself? → Present it!
Read a paper others should know about? → Show us what you liked and why it’s worth reading!

First edition: this Thursday.

Drinks, pasta & pesto are on me.

Luma link below 👇🏼

[ぷらぎあ @plastic_gear]

読んでる
すごい

ART-Glove: Articulated Tactile Glove for Contact-Grounded Dexterous Interaction Capture
Changyi Lin, Ding Zhao

[Litian Liang @litian_liang]

Introducing Universal Manipulation Exoskeleton (UME)

A low-cost exoskeleton with real-time haptic torque feedback for learning autonomous policies that perform highly force-mediated, tightly space-constrained, visually occluded, whole-body, and long-horizon mobile manipulation tasks.

Using UME, the teleoperator can unsheathe a heavy metal sword completely blindfolded.

https://t.co/W3PHmYRm4q

🧵1/N

[Klaus Lex @Klaus_Lex]

Exciting opportunities ahead! Right after ICRA & ARSO!

[Dieter Büchler @dtrbchlr]

🚀 We're hiring! Multiple PhD & Postdoc positions open at JKU Linz on physical AI topics including continual learning, sim-to-real, foundation models for embodied intelligence, soft robotics & RL. Positions are filled on a rolling basis. DM or see link below. ⚙️🤖

[Klaus Lex @Klaus_Lex]

@dtrbchlr Exciting opportunities! Welcome to Austria & JKU! :)

Followed the link since DM requires blue check - Looking forward to see where this journey goes 🦾

[Klaus Lex @Klaus_Lex]

I think we’re long past the point of where simply taxing these ultra rich people would do anything to fix the underlying issue.

Their wealth needs to be seized & we need to put systems in place that prevent accumulating such insane amount of riches in the first place.

[Klaus Lex @Klaus_Lex]

That's actually crazy to me.

Like, as someone working in the industry, I've already resigned to idea of being allowed to talk about my work, lest share even the tiniest code snippet - even if it's just a simple API wrapper.

But in science? And to reward this? Honestly baffling.

[Paul-Edouard Sarlin @pesarlin]

Where is the code? No code, no public API, private datasets, too little details to reproduce = low impact. What does the award committee value?

[Eren Chen @ErenChenAI]

ICRA 2026: Robot Feast

[Xiaoyang Lyu @XiaoyangLyu22]

Excited to share our #CVPR2026 paper: Stabilizing Streaming Video Geometry via Dynamic Feature Normalization.
Although I won’t be able to make it to Denver this year, I warmly welcome you to check out our poster at Session 2, Poster 38.
Project page: https://t.co/qtIerndeOr

[Klaus Lex @Klaus_Lex]

Losing my mind, like what?!

[Ilyass Taouil @itaouil95]

@autonomousevent @ChongZzZhang It can.

[Klaus Lex @Klaus_Lex]

Busy bees! 🐝

[GRASP Laboratory @GRASPlab]

ICRA isn't the only conference GRASP is attending this week. We are also at CVPR 2026!!!

Read this article to see what the GRASP Lab is up to at CVPR!
https://t.co/WvLsHqyvf3

#GRASP #GRASPLab #CVPR2026

[Klaus Lex @Klaus_Lex]

Like, idk, ask someone else if they are interested in helping you with visuals maybe if you can't/don't want to do it yourself?

It's no shame to not be able to do everything alone.

Just compensate & credit them. Not that hard 🥲

[Klaus Lex @Klaus_Lex]

It's crazy to me how comfortable people in tech are with the usage of genAI.
Like I see so many people using AI for visuals like this...

Even like university professors with pfps that are just yellow, like this ghibli-style popular few months back.

[Klaus Lex @Klaus_Lex]

To me, this just ties in to my experience of people in tech who are privileged enough to not understand or plain disregard the struggle & effort other people put into.

Maybe I should leave tech altogether.

[Klaus Lex @Klaus_Lex]

It's crazy to me how comfortable people in tech are with the usage of genAI.
Like I see so many people using AI for visuals like this...

Even like university professors with pfps that are just yellow, like this ghibli-style popular few months back.

[Kent Fujiwara @kentfuji]

完全にAIで作られてるっぽいポスター
すごい

[Klaus Lex @Klaus_Lex]

It's not like I am in a position to say "this does not make me want to work with these kind of people"..

But I still feel like this is a lack of respect towards artists that made me reconsider pursuing work in Computer Vision at least.