A busy life is not a symbol of status. It's a symptom of trying to do too much for too many people. A full calendar brings a surplus of stress and a shortage of energy. Reflecting and relaxing should be top priorities. Unscheduled time isn't wasted. It's invested in well-being.

Maybe the worst air quality New York City has seen in a long time as a smokey haze shrouds the sun as it rises behind midtown Manhattan and the Empire State Building, Tuesday #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #haze Empire State Building A Great Big City #sunrise

Have you ever done a dense grid search over neural network hyperparameters? Like a *really dense* grid search? It looks like this (!!). Blueish colors correspond to hyperparameters for which training converges, redish colors to hyperparameters for which training diverges.

Can we collect robot data without any robots? Introducing Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI) An open-source $400 system from Stanford University designed to democratize robot data collection 0 teleop -> autonomously wash dishes (precise), toss (dynamic), and fold clothes (bimanual)

MOSAIC A Modular System for Assistive and Interactive Cooking We present MOSAIC, a modular architecture for home robots to perform complex collaborative tasks, such as cooking with everyday users. MOSAIC tightly collaborates with humans, interacts with users using natural

Framing regression as a classification has been “dark knowledge” for some time. We wanted to shed some light on this phenomenon in deep RL: Framing value-learning as a classification significantly improves performance and scalability in deep RL. But... not all classification

Congrats Rajat Kumar Jenamani, Ziang Liu and the team on getting nominated for best paper award at #HRI2024 for their work on inside-mouth bite transfer for people with severe mobility limitations. People with severe mobility conditions cannot bend their neck to take a bite from a

Rishabh Madan is also presenting his work today at The HRI Conference #HRI2024 on robot-assisted bed-bathing. In this work, Rishabh and team used realistic caregiving practices to bed-bathe users including a user with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). This involves perceiving transparent

Robot-assisted feeding can help millions with mobility impairments. However, feeding in-the-wild meals is challenging for current systems. We tackle this with FLAIR: Feeding via Long-horizon AcquIsition of Realistic dishes!💫 🌐 emprise.cs.cornell.edu/FLAIR 🎙️Robotics: Science and Systems‘24 🧵1/7

I am hiring multiple PhD students this year to launch the Princeton Robot Planning and Learning lab: tomsilver.github.io/hiring Thanks for helping me spread the word!

IEEE ICRA Is the website down for other folks as well?

🚨 Call for Papers: Physical Caregiving Robots Workshop 🚨 📍 HRI 2025 | Melbourne, Australia 🌏🦘 📄 Submit a 2-page extended abstract on topics related to Physical Caregiving Robots 🔗 Key Links: Website: caregivingrobots.github.io Register interest: forms.gle/JAur9YyV7hiRvz…

I'm at #ICRA2025 this week to help out with the #PhyRC Challenge led by Ruolin Ye Tapomayukh "Tapo" Bhattacharjee EmPRISE Lab. Say hello if you're here and stop by to see caregiving robots in action! Competition website: emprise.cs.cornell.edu/rcareworld/cha…

Congrats Rohan Banerjee and the team on getting nominated for Best paper award at #ICRA2025 for their work on “To ask or not to ask: Human-in-the-loop contextual bandits with applications in robot-assisted feeding”. Check out his presentation in Room 302 on Tuesday at the Awards

Most assistive robots live in labs. We want to change that. FEAST enables care recipients to personalize mealtime assistance in-the-wild, with minimal researcher intervention across diverse in-home scenarios. 🏆 Outstanding Paper & Systems Paper Finalist Robotics: Science and Systems 🧵1/8

During a meal, food may cool down resulting in a change in its physical properties, even though visually it may look the same! How can robots reliably pick up food when it looks the same but feels different — such as steak 🥩getting firmer as it cools? 🍴 Check out

Introducing CLAMP: : a device, dataset, and model that bring large-scale, in-the-wild multimodal haptics to real robots. Haptics / Tactile data is more than just force or surface texture, and capturing this multimodal haptic information can be useful for robot manipulation.