Pablo Ortega-Kral

PhD Student @CMU_Robotics

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Heartfelt thanks to the full team behind RIO: Pablo Ortega-Kral, Eliot Xing, Arthur Bucker, Vernon Luk, Junseo Kim, Owen Kwon, Angchen Xie, Nikhil Sobanbabu, Yifu Yuan, Megan Lee, Deepam Ameria, Bhaswanth Ayapilla, Jaycie Bussell, Guanya Shi, Jon Francis, Jean Oh. (8/8)

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Physical AI is more than a model. Missing reusable infrastructure is often the painful part.

At #RSS2026, meet RIO: Flexible Real-Time Robot I/O for Cross-Embodiment Robot Learning (1/8)

[Pablo Ortega-Kral @PAOKApproves]

So proud of the team behind RIO. Co-led with @etaoxing, guided by @GuanyaShi, @jonmfranc , and @jeanoh at @CMU_Robotics , with wonderful collaborators across TU Delft, Bosch Center for AI, and @lavorobot , the startup where Jean keeps building on RIO. (7/8)

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How can we get robot hands to “hear” slip and contact through microphones, and react to them?

We’re excited to share VibeAct, an approach that uses piezoelectric microphones embedded in robot fingertips to estimate contact and slip, then learns reactive policies from this tactile feedback!

https://t.co/7jMLZNpYzp

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All accepted papers get poster slots, with top papers selected for spotlight talks. The workshop is non-archival, so you're welcome to submit elsewhere too.
🔗 Submit on OpenReview: https://t.co/TGCPuHCtPL
Hope to see you in Sydney (4/4)

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📢 We'd love to invite you to the 3rd SemRob Workshop on Semantic Reasoning & Goal Understanding in Robotics @ #RSS2026, Sydney! Thinking about how robots interpret, reason about, and generalize from experience? We'd love your work in the mix! (1/4)
🔗 https://t.co/f5kntqSLrG

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📄 Format: 4+N or 8+N pages suggested, no strict limit. Reviews are double-blind.
🗓️ Key dates (AoE):
• Submission: 18 June 2026
• Notification: 25 June 2026
• Camera-ready: 1 July 2026
• Workshop: 17 July 2026 (3/4)