Morning snow in Tallahassee.

Congratulations to my team of students who got three robotics papers accepted to #ICRA2025 this year! We appreciate the service of the reviewers and editors to give us feedback on our work. See you in May!

Looks real to me too. I too am impressed.

It’s real. This startup is so cool.

What sticks out to me is how dynamic the motion is. It doesn’t rely upon stationary support of the feet to stabilize the maneuver (no issue as the feet slide).

In this demo, Ultra Mobile Vehicle (UMV) drives, turns, jumps, tricks, and comes to a sudden stop called a track-stand. All of the driving, landings, balance, and track-stands are done using reinforcement learning.

No, that’s Sam Rockwell.

Due process is one of my favorite things.

Richard Bellman: “I named my ground-breaking algorithm ‘dynamic programming’ because nobody thinks ‘dynamic’ is a bad thing” Jeff Probst: 🤔

Happy 15th Birthday, Little Fermi!

Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.

It’s called the Odeleite River. It went viral for its dragon shape after a British photographer published an aerial photo in 2010. The moment you’re wowed by a fact is exactly the moment to stop and check it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odeleite_…

TRI's latest Large Behavior Model (LBM) paper landed on arxiv last night! Check out our project website: toyotaresearchinstitute.github.io/lbm1/ One of our main goals for this paper was to put out a very careful and thorough study on the topic to help people understand the state of the

Uhhh… who’s going to tell them these advanced robots are people on stilts? youtu.be/DwKlilA07YI?si…

I’ve actually been enjoying posting over on BlueSky. I just wish we had more robotics people over there.

What’s the deal with all these humanoid robots? Are they crewing a mission to Mars? I had a fun chat with Ellie in Space 🚀💫 all about it. Why there’s a boom in humanoid robots, their limitations, and their prospects for space travel and working in our world. youtu.be/TfeVv7yQYlk?si…

What is the biggest challenge robots will have in space? Christian Hubicki