Zac Manchester

Assistant Professor of Robotics at CMU, Engineer, Spacecraft Hacker.

[CMU Robotics Institute @CMU_Robotics]

Thanks to all of the students in the Spacecraft-Design-Build-Fly class! Video: https://t.co/qVWPkuuhtd Build a real cube satellite with Zac Manchester @zacinaction and Brandon Lucia @blucia0a

[John Zhang @johnzhangx]

want your next robot 🤖 to move like your favorite pet 🐶? youtube videos might be all you need.

checkout our recent work -- SLoMo

paper: https://t.co/uKYne7ZenU
website: https://t.co/O2k6mezd4N
video: https://t.co/uzc85nW3sk

[Zac Manchester @zacinaction]

Heading to Singapore for @IEEECDC2023!

[Mitchell Fogelson @fogmb]

My last year of research with @zacinaction on Kilometer-Scale Deployable Space Structures was presented at the 2023 NIAC Symposium. https://t.co/GvXaPl3BCe via @YouTube

[Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute Summer Scholars @cmu_riss]

Applying for RISS 2024 or graduate school in the Fall? RoboLaunch will host a series of talks from October 9th to 20th discussing opportunities to get involved. We will also host a Q&A at the end of every session!

🕔 When? 4 PM EDT!
📍Where? YouTube and Zoom Webinars!

[Mrinal Verghese @Mrinal_Verghese]

We are hosting a few "How to Apply to Grad School" webinars this week. This is a chance to hear from faculty and students in the Robotics Institute on what life in grad school is actually like, as well as get some tips on crafting a strong application!

https://t.co/Ublpl4BpPg

[Gengshan Yang @gengshanY]

Our #ICCV2023 paper reconstructs physically plausible 4D scenes from monocular videos: https://t.co/csKcVDJZQl

Drop by our poster at Foyer Sud - 163 to chat!

[Mitchell Fogelson @fogmb]

Thanks to the team at Nasa NIAC for inviting us to Washington DC headquarters for our Phase 2 midterm review. We have lots of exciting research to share soon on Kilometer-Scale Space Structures from a Single Launch: https://t.co/QzBM16wSzY
#Nasa #NasaNiac #SpaceStructures #CMU

[CMU School of Computer Science @SCSatCMU]

A team of @CMU_Robotics researchers have designed a system that makes an off-the-shelf quadruped robot nimble enough to walk a narrow balance beam — a feat that is likely the first of its kind.
https://t.co/n8KrsFcITA

[Zac Manchester @zacinaction]

@0bs3rv3r_666 @kevintracy48 @aiaa https://t.co/qQ4RNQAnVo

[Zac Manchester @zacinaction]

@kevintracy48 presenting our entry guidance work @aiaa #AIAASciTech

[Simon LC @simonlc_]

I'm super happy to share that our work on differentiable physics simulation of NeRF-represented objects was published in RA-L! We augment object-centric NeRFs with dynamical properties (e.g. friction properties).
paper: https://t.co/CldRntT5GR
video: https://t.co/IaPMv8jDHH

[CMU Portugal @CMUPortugal]

. @zacinaction is presenting the Exploratory project PROMETHEUS - PocketQube Framework Designed for Research and Educational Access to Space developed in collaboration with Alexandre Silva at @UMinho_Oficial and Rodrigo Ventura @istecnico

#CMUPT2023

[Zac Manchester @zacinaction]

@locoscaron You might be interested in this paper, which gets at the same ideas using quaternions and elementary matrix/vector math without requiring any Lie machinery: https://t.co/pIXgJSt7bd

[Kevin Tracy @kevintracy48]

I’m excited to finally show off fast and robust differentiable collision detection between pairs of convex primitives!

paper: https://t.co/qOd12x0i9z
code: https://t.co/GB4kIkeU27

[Zac Manchester @zacinaction]

This is really cool. I highly recommend checking it out if you're curious about model-based control but have never taken the plunge because it's too difficult to get started. You can get cool examples running in minutes!

[taylor howell @taylorhowell]

my @DeepMind project is out!
MuJoCo MPC (MJPC) is an interactive tool for real-time behavior synthesis with predictive control algorithms.
paper: https://t.co/Pqxn34c3pC
code: https://t.co/YMQrijc7sk
video: https://t.co/3j7CGejCew

[Zac Manchester @zacinaction]

Thanks @GTrobotics for a great crowd and a great visit!

[Robotics@GT @GTrobotics]

.@cmurexlab thanks 4 lending @zacinaction for a standing room only crowd

[Robotics@GT @GTrobotics]

.@ICatGT Join IRIM Nov. 2nd for “Composable Optimization for Robotic Motion Planning and Control” featuring Zac Manchester | Assistant Professor @CMU_Robotics Deets ➡️ https://t.co/gwAXgfnYm3 @zacinaction @sethahutchinson @howiechoset @cmurexlab

[Zac Manchester @zacinaction]

Super excited to kick off this new project with collaborators @CMU_ECE @CMU_Robotics @cmurexlab @blucia0a

[Carnegie Mellon University @CarnegieMellon]

With a grant from @NSF, @CMUengineering researchers are creating constellations of nanosatellites to extract valuable data and transmit it back to earth, while still in orbit. https://t.co/7tMsDtJzAI

[Zac Manchester @zacinaction]

Got to share our lab's work at the ETH Autonomy Talks organized by @GioeleZardini yesterday. Super proud of the work by my students @simonlc_, @taylorhowell, @kevintracy48, Shuo Yang, and Chi Yen Lee. Check it out: https://t.co/PV579qxlGl