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Ever watch your imitation-based robot policy do something bizarre? Wish you could fix it—no retraining needed? Meet FOREWARN, a VLM-in-the-loop system that steers multi-modal generative policies toward the right outcomes, on the fly.

1.5 yrs ago, we set out to answer a seemingly simple question: what are we *actually* getting out of RL in fine-tuning? I'm thrilled to share a pearl we found on the deepest dive of my PhD: the value of RL in RLHF seems to come from *generation-verification gaps*. Get ready to🤿!

We are back for another round with the 2nd Annual Northeastern Systems and Control Workshop (NESCW), which will be held Columbia Engineering Columbia University on May 3rd, 2025! If you are a systems and controls researcher in the northeast, you are invited! IEEE Control Systems Society IFAC_Control L4DC Conference

We’ve extended our submission deadline to 5/2/2025 to accommodate CoRL deadlines! If you’re working on something exciting related to safely using LLM/VLM/VLA in robotics, join our exciting program!!! We’re also featuring a Startup Spotlight, showcasing real-world applications of

Congrats to Andrea Bajcsy (Andrea Bajcsy) on receiving the NSF CAREER award! 👏 Her work: “Formalizing Open World Safety for Interactive Robots,” explores how robots make safe decisions beyond collision avoidance. Read about it and her education plans: loom.ly/59evuD0

Huge thanks to everyone who made NESCW Columbia University awesome! The students and postdocs brought their A-game and created an incredible energy through talks and poster sessions—this is how a research community should always feel! Thrilled to host next year Princeton University! #NESCW2026 📸👇

📢 Excited for the second workshop on Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Robotics: Towards Reliable Learning-based Autonomy at RSS! #RSS2025 🎯 How can we build reliable robotic autonomy for the real world? 📅 Short papers due 05/25/25 🌐 tinyurl.com/rss2025ood 🧵(1/4)

🚨 Our workshop is in just 1 day! If you’re at IEEE ICRA , swing by Room 411 this Friday for an exciting lineup of talks and discussions on safely leveraging foundation models in robotics 🤖📚 We’ve brought together tech leaders from Waymo , NVIDIA , and Google DeepMind

Congratulations to BAIR alumni Andrea Bajcsy who has earned the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award! ri.cmu.edu/andrea-bajcsy-…

Say ahoy to 𝚂𝙰𝙸𝙻𝙾𝚁⛵: a new paradigm of *learning to search* from demonstrations, enabling test-time reasoning about how to recover from mistakes w/o any additional human feedback! 𝚂𝙰𝙸𝙻𝙾𝚁 ⛵ out-performs Diffusion Policies trained via behavioral cloning on 5-10x data!

Zeynep Temel Henny Admoni Jeannette Bohg Andrea Bajcsy Follow up - we did have dress day at #ICRA2025 ! we tried to make a rainbow, but turns out, roboticists do not like yellow... too many people for me to tag. This, again, was a joyful moment 🩷

I’ll be presenting this work at RSS tomorrow at the Reliable Robotics workshop, and Monday at the Control and Dynamics session. I’ll also be presenting Junwon Seo’s UNISafe work at the OOD generalization workshop on Wednesday!

I am going to give a talk about our work at 5:30pm-6:30pm today in Imitations Learning Session I. Also we have our poster at poster board 54. If you are interested in our work, feel free to check our poster and chat with me!