Peter Schaldenbrand

super excited to announce our full-day workshop on Contact-Rich Control and Representation (CR2) at #ICRA2026, held on June 1st in Vienna, Austria! 🕸️ website: for all information, please check out: cr2-icra2026.github.io

@CatieCuan Sounds amazing! Can I enroll? 🙋‍♂️

This quarter, I'm teaching Stanford University's first course cross-listed between Computer Science and Theater, Arts, & Performance Studies: CS334: Robots and Arts. My students span computer science, design, theater, business, and beyond.

The word "robot" was born on stage, not in a lab. It comes from the Czech word "robota"—forced labor—and first appeared in Karel Čapek's 1920 play "R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)." A playwright coined it. Not an engineer. From day 1, robots and the arts have been inseparable.

One month to go until we close the open call for @CVPR Art Gallery🤖🎨 Last year we had everything from rotting apples and interactive robots to multiscreen sculptures. I can't wait to see what people submit this year😍 Details: tinyurl.com/CVPR2026 #CVPR2026 #creativeAI

Did the robot wash its hands first?

EXTENSION! The ICRA Arts & Robotics call for proposals has been extended to Jan 9th! 2026.ieee-icra.org/contribute/cal… Photo of @p_alvesoliveira 's group last year!

1/N 🎨🤖Given only a static image of an oil painting by an expert artist, can a robot infer the corresponding control actions, such as trajectory, orientation, and applied force, to accurately reproduce the painting? 🖌️Introducing IMPASTO: a robotic oil-painting system that integrates learned pixel dynamics with model-based planning to reproduce paintings from target images. This project is led by @yingke_wang18 (wykac.com) – a roboticist and an artist. Project website: impasto-robopainting.github.io

The ICRA Arts & Robotics call for proposals is Dec. 22! Looking forward to seeing some more amazing demos in Vienna! More info here: hoomansamani.com/arts-robots-ic…

Had a great time at my first SIGGRAPH! Thanks @YVinker and @Miamiamia0103 for organizing a super cool workshop and for the sick bookmark 👩‍🎨

Wrapping up our first Drawing & Sketching workshop at #SIGGRAPH2025 🙌! Thanks to everyone who joined us. We were thrilled to see so much excitement for this field! Huge thanks to our interdisciplinary line of speakers for sharing their valuable insights. See you next year :)

👨‍🎨 Evaluation of Human & Robot Art 🎨 Seeking for #art #curator, #art #critique, #art #historian based in the US, to evaluate human & robot art! 🖌️ Enroll here: lnkd.in/dcKM-kKp The survey takes 15min and you will receive a compensation of $50 ❤️

The Arts in Robotics session at @ieee_ras_icra is in full swing! Different demos am and pm every day. It's located in the corner of the expo room!

@JulienBlanchon Hey, not that I know of. Should be pretty straightforward if it has position control. I would be happy to help make this work!

@PeteyRobots Anyone working on a SO-100 port of Frida at CMU ? It's should be pretty straithforward no ? Just need for a custom a Robot implementation #L15" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/cmubig/Frida/b…

Sim2Real (pydiffvg to real) gap is super tough. We usually use canvas board to avoid the wet paper buckling. Check out our work, Spline-FRIDA, which learns all those z parameter calibrations automatically. It's still differentiable too. arxiv.org/abs/2412.00597

@quasimondo @manusai Haha sorry, yes there are too many branches. Try this one, it's closest to diffVG. We are working on some video instructions to make setup easier. Can you dm me? I'll send you an early version of instructions. github.com/cmubig/Frida/t…

@PeteyRobots Ah, what a coincidence - just a few days ago @manusai had mentioned Frida when I asked it to summarize the state of the art in robotic painting. I just had not gotten around to taking a closer look. Which of the many GitHub branches is the best one to get started?

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Special Issue of Robotics and Automation Magazine on Arts and Robotics! Submissions due Aug. 1st ieee-ras.org/publications/r…

🗓️ 🎨 Deadline approaching! Arts in Robotics at #ICRA2025 is accepting proposals until December 15. We welcome proposals on artworks that are innovative, experimental, thought-provoking, and creative. For more info, visit our website: 2025.ieee-icra.org/announcements/…

The Creative AI track at @NeurIPSConf is in full swing in East Ballroom C (ask staff for directions, lol). Come see some great papers and artworks presented today (9-Noon and 1-4). More sessions Wednesday and Thursday, too.

✨📢 Arts in Robotics at #ICRA2025 is now accepting proposals. We welcome proposals on artworks that are innovative, experimental, thought-provoking, and creative! Proposals are due by December 15. For more info, visit our website: 2025.ieee-icra.org/announcements/…

I sat next to this work all Summer. It was incredible to see what Adam Hung and @UksangYoo were able to accomplish in such a short time with simple hardware (cheap pottery wheel and single, rigid end effector)