ViktorM🇺🇦

ex-Chief Scientist @clonerobotics, ex-Research Scientist @NVIDIA. Exploring simulation, robotics, dexterity, and RL by day - painting and piano by night.

[ViktorM🇺🇦 @viktor_m81]

Oh no! Are RL and robotics also downgraded?

[elie @eliebakouch]

mythos will be bad ON PURPOSE on ai "frontier llm research" tasks, this is very very sad for the research community

also the fact that this is un purpose not visible to the user is crazy

[ViktorM🇺🇦 @viktor_m81]

But then... I won't be sleeping tonight, I guess.

[ViktorM🇺🇦 @viktor_m81]

I tried this new image-generation bug/feature in ChatGPT. It started pretty innocent...

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

There are no words.

[ViktorM🇺🇦 @viktor_m81]

April 1, 2026. No joke!

[NASA HQ PHOTO @nasahqphoto]

Check out the first pictures of the #Artemis II launch from our remote cameras. Keep checking back for more! 📷 https://t.co/0AEy2WWeQo

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

The @ilyasut episode

0:00:00 – Explaining model jaggedness
0:09:39 - Emotions and value functions
0:18:49 – What are we scaling?
0:25:13 – Why humans generalize better than models
0:35:45 – Straight-shotting superintelligence
0:46:47 – SSI’s model will learn from deployment
0:55:07 – Alignment
1:18:13 – “We are squarely an age of research company”
1:29:23 – Self-play and multi-agent
1:32:42 – Research taste

Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Enjoy!

[ViktorM🇺🇦 @viktor_m81]

@tonyzzhao @sundayrobotics Congratulations Tony!

[ViktorM🇺🇦 @viktor_m81]

@JasonMa2020 Congratulations Jason and Lindon!

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@TairanHe99 @GuanyaShi @ChangliuL Congratulations, Tairan!

[Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered @AndySaunders_1]

Today in 1969.
Neil Armstrong took this - the first ever photograph on the surface of another world.
Remastered here from a scan of the actual film from Armstrong's camera.

[ViktorM🇺🇦 @viktor_m81]

@bingjietang07 @Tesla_Optimus @gauravsukhatme @uscresl @NVIDIARobotics Congratulations Dr Tang!🎖️

[Brokoslaw Laschowski @DrLaschowski]

Are you a graduate student in #Ukraine interested in machine learning and neuroscience? My research lab at #UofT is now accepting applications for remote thesis supervision.

(1/3) #neuroAI #compneuro @VectorInst @UofT @UofTCompSci @UHN

[ViktorM🇺🇦 @viktor_m81]

At #RSS25 next week. If you’re interested in chatting about humanoids, foundation models in robotics, RL, or sim2real over coffee, feel free to DM!

[ViktorM🇺🇦 @viktor_m81]

It’s time for Humanoid Robot Olympics now! We’ve had running competitions, established robot soccer leagues, and now boxing. Let’s bring them all together - tennis, wrestling, track and field, olympic weightlifting, soccer - all in one thrilling event!

[ViktorM🇺🇦 @viktor_m81]

Wow - it looks impressive! A technically sound Muay Thai bout. How about freestyle wrestling next? Robots can’t get KO’d like humans, but imagine the spectacular 4-point throws they could pull off!

[Reborn @reborn_agi]

CMG World Robotics Highlight.

Which moment impressed you most?

[ViktorM🇺🇦 @viktor_m81]

Except it's far from been the cheapest - look at the statistics for the countries who heavily invested in solar + wind, vs those with nuclear + hydro, or just compare the electricity prices (and amount of CO2 generated) in Germany and France. Solar is also not the cleanest and CO2 free - all the materials needed for solar batteries have to be somehow mined first. And due to the energy density constraints the amount of mined materials (and land used) is tens times more per GW compared to the nuclear power.

And it's even without taking into account a huge amount of batteries required. So it's rather the opposite - solar would be a nice addition where it's appropriate to a stable, clean and reliable nuclear energy (with hydro and fusion in the future) baseload.

[ViktorM🇺🇦 @viktor_m81]

@scaling01 o1-pro, GPT-4.5, DeepSeek R2

[ViktorM🇺🇦 @viktor_m81]

Impressive new work "VideoMimic" by @arthurallshire and team. The G1 humanoid robot masters complex contextual skills - like climbing stairs or sitting -directly from casual human cell-phone videos!

Not only novel research-wise, but also exceptionally engineering-intensive, the project cleverly integrates computer vision, state-of-the-art physics-based animation methods, and RL in simulation (Isaac Gym) with distillation into a single real-to-sim-to-real pipeline.

[Arthur Allshire @arthurallshire]

our new system trains humanoid robots using data from cell phone videos, enabling skills such as climbing stairs and sitting on chairs in a single policy

(w/ @redstone_hong @junyi42 @davidrmcall)

[ViktorM🇺🇦 @viktor_m81]

Streamed by @breadli428

[ViktorM🇺🇦 @viktor_m81]

Exciting news—the first-ever human-robot half-marathon is happening right now in China! https://t.co/OCAKwCYiGg

Robotics engineers and scientists really need to be in great shape these days—to lift heavy humanoid robots when they fall and run alongside them over long distances. I'm starting to wonder if this is becoming part of the standard interview process:

'Congrats, you've aced all our tests! Now, one final challenge—finish a half-marathon in under 2 hours, and you're hired!'😅