Agentic Coding Advances Robotics: New Results at ICRA2026
My students and I are very excited about the potential of agentic coding for robotics. Looking fwd to presenting new results in plenary talk on Tues 2 June, the first day of @IEEEorg #ICRA2026 in Vienna: https://t.co/REMCUkmrDz
Why Building Humanoid Robots Remains Extremely Challenging
Enjoyed discussing why humanoids are hard with Sean @Rameswaram on @Today_Explained (starting around minute 18:30): https://t.co/yJswBUOVsL
Real ROI Engineering, Not Fancy Demos, Closes Robot Gap
“The fastest way to shorten the robot gap is not better demos. It is harder, more honest engineering against real customer ROI, and the patience to let the deployment flywheel compound before declaring victory.” 👊
Students Warn: Humanoid Timeline May Be Overhyped
"The Humanoid Condition", a timely 24 min video, just came out from @Bloomberg. (My students and I appear around minute 7:00 and 23:00 to express some concerns about the timeline...) https://t.co/X26D3KwhsI
STITCH 2.0 Accepted, Set for ICRA2026 Presentation
Congratulations to Kush for many improvements over STITCH 1.0 ! STITCH 2.0 was accepted by @IEEE RA-Letters and will be presented #ICRA2026 next month in Vienna. Much remains to be done before we're ready for clinical trials...
Carbon‑Captured CO₂ Powers New IPA Brew
Hats off to @capture_air for brilliant new carbon-capture concept: IPA beer brewed with carbon dioxide collected by their novel system @AlmanacBeer https://t.co/AL6YnCtk9z
Cracking the 5 Roadblocks to Robot Commercialization
How robot companies can overcome 5 barriers to commercialization, by Jeff Mahler, savvy and experienced CTO of @AmbiRobotics: https://t.co/mMsBCfLGIA https://t.co/qvdhagmht5
Self-Supervised VLMs Reset Thousands of Pick‑place Demos
Congrats @willjhliang, @JasonMa2020 @dineshjayaraman and collaborators on this cool combination of VLMs, keypoint detectors, and GOFE trajectory warping to self-supervise and reset 1000s of diverse pick-and-place demonstrations that are then used to train a VLA policy.
IEEE Launches New Robot Learning Journal March 30
The @IEEE Transactions on Robot Learning (T-RL) will launch on March 30! Co-EiCs: Todd Murphey and Vincent Vanhoucke https://t.co/v8bRowWtHr
AI's Proactive Personality Tested: Woman Lets Robot In
I’ve been thinking about AI being proactive—tricky to get this right….and how it could fine-tune its personality….an interesting case study: To Stay in Her Home, She Let In an A.I. Robot https://t.co/PGqWZjy7sN via @NYTimes