Alessandro Saccon
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Alessandro Saccon
@AleSaccon
Robots and Advanced Control Theory, Associate Prof @TUEindhoven. Coordinator H2020 project @I_AM_H2020, impact-aware manipulation for logistics
Noord-Brabant, Nederland Katılım Nisan 2010
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@zhengyiluo "Why we sleep" is a good book, if you haven't read it yet :)
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Me at 3AM last night (according to my gf):
Rose up, eyes wide open, shouted “let’s talk about work, the Omni controller is ready,” kissed her hand, then went right back to sleep.
I have zero recollection of this.
Wish me luck (and sleep) before we solve robotics😂😂😂
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Write your country name if you still SUPPORT Ukraine ❤️
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@chris_j_paxton Try to lift 25kg with that! And quickly ;) Buy I understand what you mean and agree there are still a few pieces missing
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Strongly believe hardware is not, and will not be, the limitation for robotics at any point in my lifetime. If you dont believe me buy one of these, put on some gloves to worsen your tactile feedback, and use it to do basically anything you can imagine with your big human brain
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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of giving a talk and visiting the Robotics group at @TUeindhoven.
They have an amazing campus and many excellent researchers in the robotics area!
Many thanks to @AleSaccon for inviting me! It was an amazing experience!
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if we would expand the acronym AI as Artificial Intuition, it would be way more accurate and descriptive of what the technology is. People would likely also stop to yell at each other, debating if it is intelligent or not :)
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Wow, this is new! I managed to get a paper rejected by... @arxiv 🧐
They are not telling me why, and they do not seem to be willing to re-assess their decision 🤷♂️
Has anyone had this experience already? Any alternatives to ArXiv⁉️
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Cleaning up my office, before the moving. This is from 1996. We are still busy with the same problem after 30 years. And apparently trying with the same approach. Anyway, that is why it is important to read the "old" literature. Do not reinvent the wheel :)
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Seems to me like the final form factor for agile ground robots. Yes, legs are great, but why not have wheels too? (As pioneered by @ki_ki_ki1 et al!)
Unitree@UnitreeRobotics
Unitree B2-W Talent Awakening! 🥳 One year after mass production kicked off, Unitree’s B2-W Industrial Wheel has been upgraded with more exciting capabilities. Please always use robots safely and friendly. #Unitree #Quadruped #Robotdog #Parkour #EmbodiedAI #IndustrialRobot #InspectionRobot #IntelligentRobot #FoundationModels #LeggedRobot #WheeledLegs
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Parallel physics simulation is a key component to further develop robot autonomy in dynamic environments. Still ample space for improving the accuracy in contact forces and velocities. Exciting times.
The Humanoid Hub@TheHumanoidHub
Hillbot and UCSD introduce ManiSkill-HAB, a GPU-accelerated benchmark for in-home object rearrangement, 3x faster than prior methods. Includes RL/IL baselines, automated event annotations, and scalable dataset creation for diverse AI training scenarios.
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@kwangmoo_yi The issue is that people are becoming 'religious'. Meaning, by not defining and agreeing on the meaning of terms such as "generative AI" and "general artificial intelligence," you can end up talking about different things using the same words. With strong emotions involved.
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I generally don't like being controversial, but I am sad that this release is completely misleading. It is NOT generative AI. It's a cool **physics simulation library**. The generative part isn't there, and the referenced paper is an LLM that calls the right assets and code.
Zhou Xian@zhou_xian_
Everything you love about generative models — now powered by real physics! Announcing the Genesis project — after a 24-month large-scale research collaboration involving over 20 research labs — a generative physics engine able to generate 4D dynamical worlds powered by a physics simulation platform designed for general-purpose robotics and physical AI applications. Genesis's physics engine is developed in pure Python, while being 10-80x faster than existing GPU-accelerated stacks like Isaac Gym and MJX. It delivers a simulation speed ~430,000 faster than in real-time, and takes only 26 seconds to train a robotic locomotion policy transferrable to the real world on a single RTX4090 (see tutorial: genesis-world.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user…). The Genesis physics engine and simulation platform is fully open source at github.com/Genesis-Embodi…. We'll gradually roll out access to our generative framework in the near future. Genesis implements a unified simulation framework all from scratch, integrating a wide spectrum of state-of-the-art physics solvers, allowing simulation of the whole physical world in a virtual realm with the highest realism. We aim to build a universal data engine that leverages an upper-level generative framework to autonomously create physical worlds, together with various modes of data, including environments, camera motions, robotic task proposals, reward functions, robot policies, character motions, fully interactive 3D scenes, open-world articulated assets, and more, aiming towards fully automated data generation for robotics, physical AI and other applications. Open Source Code: github.com/Genesis-Embodi… Project webpage: genesis-embodied-ai.github.io Documentation: genesis-world.readthedocs.io 1/n
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This @ieeetro Special Collection on Impact-Aware Robotics was a great fun to organize! There is still a lot of things to do to get robots at the level of dexterity of human beings but, hey, we are getting there!
#Robotics @TUeindhoven
IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)@IeeeTro
T-RO Special Collection #ImpactAwareRobotics is live! A special thank you to Abderrahmane Kheddar, @YanGuRobotics, @MichaelAPosa, @AleSaccon, and handling editor Paolo Robuffo Giordano for their tireless commitment. ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/topics.jsp… #LeggedRobots #RobotSensingSystems
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There was also a great presentation by the @serpentine_ai, showcasing some of interesting AI projects TU/e students are busy with!
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Last week I have I have attended the talk of @FabAroundEU, CEO of @AxeleraAI, at the @TUeindhoven , organized by the student association Kickoff EHV. Honest and inspiring. One remark that I liked: Everybody has great ideas, the challenge it is to make them happen! #AI #Robotics
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When people say locomotion is solved, they mean this is possible. Truly remarkable and beyond natural (animals have no wheels)
#robotics
DEEP Robotics@DeepRobotics_CN
Extreme Off-Road | #DEEPRobotics #Lynx All-Terrian #Robot #robotdog #tech #ai #quadrupedrobot #robotics
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@UgHLyDuCkLiN and yes, the pic is not from today. This morning was raining and my phone was in a plastic bag :)
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beautiful sentence by @UgHLyDuCkLiN, heard during a 60m running session using the NRC app today. Love it.
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Extremely happy for this award recognizing our effort for storing robotics research data according to FAIR principles, started within the @I_AM_H2020
project on impact-aware manipulation. Webpage of the impact-aware robotics database in the comments.
#robotics #eindhoven
DANS | Bluesky: @dans-knaw-nwo.bsky.social@DANS_knaw_nwo
Time to reveal the #DutchDataPrize winners of 2024! In the category #Natural & #Engineering Sciences - #NES - the winner is 'Impact-aware Robotics Database'. Congratulations Maarten Jongeneel and @AleSaccon of @TUEindhoven #RDNL
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