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AI Is (Probably) Not Going To Destroy Education
There's cause for concern, but also optimism: AI is changing the way people learn.
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ICRA 2025 was bigger and more serious
The robotics field is changing fast, and the flagship IEEE robotics conference demonstrated some of the recent trends.
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Remote Robotic Teleoperation
Far from being an "easy out" for autonomy, teleoperating robots has a range of unique challenges, but enables impressive real-world capabilities…
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The Limits of Reinforcement Learning
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2024 Robotics Year in Review
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Remote Robotic Teleoperation
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ICRA 2025 was bigger and more serious
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Deepseek R1 Reactions
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What does the world representation for home robots look like?
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The Limits of Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement learning has been posited as a solution to the looming "data wall," but it isn't. That doesn't mean it's not a powerful tool.
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Hands, LLMs, Humanoids and More: Some lower-profile releases you might've missed
A short list of cool things I saw on Twitter this week
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RoboPapers Episode 3: Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Dexterous Manipulation on Humanoids with Toru Lin
Sim-to-real training is an important part of the future of robot skill learning. But a lot of sim-to-real work focuses on navigation, grasping, or, more…
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Generative AI for Creating Robot Data
RoboEngine and one way to get the data we need for scaling robot learning
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Reactions to Llama 4 Have Been Mixed
The latest release of Meta's flagship open-source large language model lands in a much more competitive landscape than previous editions
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RoboPapers Episode 2: Robot Utility Models with Mahi Shafiullah
General Policies for Zero-Shot Deployment in New Environments
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Michael Cho
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RoboPapers Episode 1: SAM2Act with Jiafei Duan
Integrating Visual Foundation Model with A Memory Architecture for Robotic Manipulation
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Michael Cho
What Happened at GTC 2025
The premier conference for AI developers
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Paper Notes: Scaling Laws for Pre-Training Agents and World Models
To make big investments in scaling robotic learning, we need to understand what the scaling laws for robotics data actually are.
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It Can Think!
It Can Think!
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