Achu Wilson

Roboticist @ Boston Dynamics AI Institute | Previously @CMU_Robotics @iiscbangalore @MIT_CSAIL | Co-Founder @SastraRobotics | Personal views only

[Achu Wilson @achuwilson]

Excited to announce that we made it into the finals of Kuka Innovation Award 2021:AI Challenge. Here is the spotlight video showing our new gripper and its applications
https://t.co/00i7sc0nCZ

#robotics #IISc #MIT_CSAIL

[Achu Wilson @achuwilson]

After seeing people using ROS MoveIT to make simple robot motions and getting frustrated when the RRT planner chooses the weirdest path, I wrote a simple library to control UR5 robots.

https://t.co/kCNUCV3WYG

Icing on the cake: it also comes with a cool GUI!
@Universal_Robot

[Achu Wilson @achuwilson]

@pulkitology @taochenshh Wow, this looks pretty impressive!. Any link to the paper? Couldn't find it on the project page.

[Linux Droids @Sphinx_ARDE]

Es el 20º mes consecutivo q la OPEP+ no ha alcanzado los objetivos de producción. En ese período de tiempo, el déficit acumulado de suministro de petróleo al mercado frente a los objetivos se ha disparado a más de 900millones de barriles
🧵➡️1⃣
@amturiel
https://t.co/qtnNnNNzRN

[Animesh Garg @animesh_garg]

As @NeurIPSConf #NeurIPS2021 deadline approaches, I've consolidated some technical writing tips.

Succinct answers to each of the questions,
Voila, you have a crisp Introduction!

Expand on prior work, intuition/tech details, & expts for the rest ensuring the why is always clear

[Google AI @GoogleAI]

Learn about a new open-source benchmark and suite of simulated tasks for robotic manipulation of deformable objects — including cables, fabrics and bags — with a set of model architectures that enable learning complex relative spatial relations. https://t.co/cdc1o7AQDt

[Achu Wilson @achuwilson]

@markus_with_k Goodnotes 5 + Google Drive

[Achu Wilson @achuwilson]

I started using Drake last year and hasn't yet looked back.

[Toyota Research Institute (TRI) @ToyotaResearch]

"If you have needs for an industrial strength robotics toolbox that can enable your research and engineering applications, then take a serious look at Drake."

Dr. Russ Tedrake, TRI's VP of Robotics Research, introduces open-source tool for roboticists.⬇️🦾https://t.co/n71569W8ss

[Toyota Research Institute (TRI) @ToyotaResearch]

"If you have needs for an industrial strength robotics toolbox that can enable your research and engineering applications, then take a serious look at Drake."

Dr. Russ Tedrake, TRI's VP of Robotics Research, introduces open-source tool for roboticists.⬇️🦾https://t.co/n71569W8ss

[hardmaru @hardmaru]

Tips for Research and a PhD by @seb_ruder

TL;DR:

• Read broadly
• Work on 2 things
• Be ambitious
• Collaborate
• Be proactive
• Blog
• Keep a source of positive energy
• Play to your strengths
• Intern / visit a university
• Play the long game https://t.co/jk5wpzf9dB

[Achu Wilson @achuwilson]

@TapoBhat @cs_cornell @CornellCIS Congrats Tapo!

[Achu Wilson @achuwilson]

And that's some news about my small state Kerala, on how we are defending covid so far, bringing the curves down when the national curves are going up. (378 cases, 198 recovered including 90+aged, 2 deaths, 36 Million population) https://t.co/VIkgnyud0V

[Achu Wilson @achuwilson]

"Thinking while Moving" looks cool

[Karol Hausman @hausman_k]

Many RL systems today use a blocking observe-think-act paradigm. We show how you can easily change your value-based RL to allow your robot to be thinking while moving!

Paper: https://t.co/rSOVaVLFwO
Website: https://t.co/7Tk86aQBeQ
(includes @iclr_conf presentation)

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Kerala's COVID-19 response has been humane, caring and successful. They've kept their death toll to 2, and new cases are falling thanks to widespread community testing.

It puts the so-called "first world" to shame.

https://t.co/flH9jV6w6T

[Google AI @GoogleAI]

Check out new research into applying transfer learning to robotic manipulation. By leveraging pre-trained weights from computer vision models, it’s possible to greatly improve the training efficiency for robotic manipulation tasks. Learn all about it at https://t.co/pFiyxVsMlt

[Achu Wilson @achuwilson]

Google AI Blog:Introducing Dreamer: Scalable Reinforcement Learning Using World Models https://t.co/LbsTxWPOck via @googleai

[Achu Wilson @achuwilson]

Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now by @tomaspueyo https://t.co/JsbJnugdOu

[Achu Wilson @achuwilson]

@Nithooz Whatsup!

[Achu Wilson @achuwilson]

@AkihikoYmgch Thanks for noticing and spreading the word.

[Achu Wilson @achuwilson]

You can spend ever more money on tennis rackets. You might even play a bit better. But Rafael Nadal is still beating you every single time with a $10 beginner's racket. Not most times, not 99% of the time, 100% of the time. Every time.
Focus on your game
https://t.co/v9iI3jtqIp