WAT.ai

🧠 @uwaterloo 's flagship AI student design team
🛠️ ML, RL, hardware, research & more
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[WAT.ai @uwwatai]

@ammiellewb from https://t.co/RWC5ofiRuU's Preference RL team showing off their first prototype! After recording how a human finishes a task, they're using sample efficient RL to quickly teach the robot how to do the task itself. Excited to continue our investments in robotics 💪

[cindy @cindehaa]

hello waterloo ai enthusiasts, @uwwatai core member applications opened yesterday! i wrote about my perspective on the hiring process, including what i looked for in applications. i hope this sheds some light on the process and makes it a bit less opaque. (these are my personal thoughts and not affiliated with watai)

https://t.co/VcXhst2i6X

if you don't know what im talking ab, check out https://t.co/7PzytUGDy7 to learn more ab our club! we also have an active discord server too

[Haaris Sadiq @byHaarisSadiq]

We're hiring!

Me and @johnliaojl recently joined @uwwatai as a Technical Project Managers and we're building GradusRL, a soft robot quadruped trained with reinforcement learning this fall to winter.

Recruiting core members from uw across hardware, software, and RL. Link to apply in the replies 👇

[WAT.ai @uwwatai]

Core member applications are now open!

If you are interested in getting hands-on experience in AI and ML for real-world applications we encourage you to apply!

Apply through this link by Sept 18th @ 11:59 pm: https://t.co/Cy3OJmFhUr

[WAT.ai @uwwatai]

We're pitting UW vs UofT head to head at an ML hackathon... @uwwatai @UTMIST1 👀

Come rep your school or the one you think is cooler 🥶

Backed by some very exciting sponsors, revealed soon!

🗓️ Sept 12-13 @ UofT
‼️ Apply now on https://t.co/kOIkYXSEXG before Fri Sept 4

[Abtin @abtin011]

Waterloo and UofT students📢

We’re doing a competitive Waterloo vs UofT hackathon at @UWwatai and @UTMIST1 🏆

Will take place on September 12-13 on UofT

Applications close next Friday (September 4) so sign up quick!

We have some exciting sponsors to be revealed soon…

[Batu Atakan @EmreBatuAtakan]

Update on our robot learning project with @aboraatakan at @uwwatai.

We went from ~30% to 99.8% success on our pick-and-place task by updating our policy from a DINO ViT + transformer policy to a CNN + MLP. Our old model was memorizing the training data and transferring poorly to closed-loop rollouts, so we went the other way and made the model smaller.

The attached video is the CNN + MLP policy running in sim on our async inference stack. We demoed it live for a few hours: 4 failures over 2000+ randomized scenes. This experience has been useful to confirm our stack's correctness. We are now ready to move to hardware!

Next: real hardware, diffusion policy, open-weight fine-tunes, and RL.

Reach out if you're interested in collaborating, and stay tuned.

[WAT.ai @uwwatai]

@VijayGoyal0770 Excited to see what your team builds!

[Vijay Goyal @VijayGoyal0770]

Check out what WorldFold (https://t.co/MztxYVLe39 S26) has been up to this term! (Research commentaries)
https://t.co/CBdBoK2WO6
https://t.co/DLreYF1yNO
https://t.co/D5CXNC6Jtu

[WAT.ai @uwwatai]

Come see the work, meet the teams, and connect with fellow builders. See you there! https://t.co/dt8Mae9jMh

[WAT.ai @uwwatai]

Join us for the S26 End of Term Showcase, a night celebrating the projects our teams have worked on. Expect deep dives into RL, robotics, LLMs, world models, and more.

📅 Mon, July 27 | 6-9PM 📍 E7/PSE Ideas Clinic, 1st Floor

[Batu Atakan @EmreBatuAtakan]

Imagine teaching robots new tasks just by showing them videos.

@aboraatakan and I started this as a research idea, then built it into a @uwwatai research group with an amazing @UWaterloo team.

We now have our first MuJoCo sim stack for data collection, rollouts, debugging, training, async real-time inference, and a policy at ~30% success.

Next: bigger models, RL, and post-training recipes.

Huge thanks to @BerkayAntmen and @coolboi95 for the mentorship.

Reach out if you’re interested in collaborating, and stay tuned!

[WAT.ai @uwwatai]

Don’t box yourself into “research person” or “industry person.” The strongest builders develop both.

That’s what https://t.co/RWC5ofiRuU is built for. 💛

Director Applications are open. If you want to help students find their launch vector, apply today, https://t.co/dsfcOtb6fJ

[WAT.ai @uwwatai]

Ethan’s path shows what happens when curiosity turns into real technical growth. 💪

Through https://t.co/RWC5ofiRuU, he learned how to work through ambiguity, lead people, and build the kind of technical confidence that carries into real engineering environments.

[WAT.ai @uwwatai]

Grinding Leetcode for job apps? 😉 Join our upcoming workshop to automate your job search with Skyvern's opensource browser agents! On Monday June 29th at 5 PM, we'll walk through how it works, then demo it live on automated job applications.

Signup at https://t.co/Re9KJixVdx

[WAT.ai @uwwatai]

That is the kind of culture Directors help create at https://t.co/RWC5ofiRuU. 💛

Applications are open. Step into the team, shape the community, and help more students find their first serious AI project. Apply using the link -> https://t.co/dsfcOtb6fJ

[WAT.ai @uwwatai]

From https://t.co/RWC5ofiRuU project rooms to Bloomberg internships and startup building, Ryan’s path shows how far hands-on AI experience can take you.

Ryan’s takeaway is simple: great technical work is not just about chasing prestige or perfect credentials.

[WAT.ai @uwwatai]

Director applications are your chance to help be a part of and build this environment for the next generation of builders at https://t.co/RWC5ofiRuU. 💛

💥 Apply for https://t.co/RWC5ofiRuU Director Applications today, https://t.co/dsfcOtb6fJ

[WAT.ai @uwwatai]

Meet Trevor Yu: former https://t.co/RWC5ofiRuU VP Operations, now applying AI in healthcare at FluidAI Medical! 🤯

At https://t.co/RWC5ofiRuU, Trevor helped organize technical teams, support projects, and build the kind of community where people learn by shipping real work.

[WAT.ai @uwwatai]

This is the https://t.co/RWC5ofiRuU pipeline in action. 💛

💥 Want to create contribute meaningfully to the AI ecosystem like Jarett? Apply today for https://t.co/RWC5ofiRuU directorship -> https://t.co/dsfcOtb6fJ

[WAT.ai @uwwatai]

Co-founding https://t.co/RWC5ofiRuU to conducting ML research at MIT! 🤯

His advice? Don’t wait until you feel "ready." Build tangible projects, get comfortable with not knowing everything, and learn by doing the messy work.