Pranav Ponnivalavan

@jeremy_dasa Yay, great work Jeremy! :)

Can pretrained VLMs become capable VLAs without losing their semantic capabilities?🤖 Excited to introduce CLAP👏 (Causal Language-Action Prediction), a lightweight VLM-to-VLA fine-tuning recipe that requires no action expert, no vocabulary modification, and no architectural change! 🧵👇🏻

先日のHumanoids SummitのTalkです。 youtu.be/F4vIZrCvgZU?si…

IROS2026はJournal Transferを加えて、以下の5件を発表します。#IROS2026 1. A. Mustafa, R. Hanai, I. G. Ramirez-Alpizar, F. Marc Arden Erich, R. Nakajo, Y. Domae, and T. Ogata: ForceMapping: learning visual-force features from vision for soft objects manipulation 2. A. Mustafa, R. Hanai, I. G. Ramirez-Alpizar, F. Marc Arden Erich, R. Nakajo, Y. Domae, and T. Ogata: Non-Prehensile Throwing: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective 3. S. Fujita, H. Ichiwara, S. Sugano, and T. Ogata: Energy-Score Stabilized Attentive Mixture-Density Policy: A Lightweight Approach to Multimodal Robot Motion 4. X. Cai, H. Ichiwara, H. Hiruma, M. Yoshikawa, H. Ito, and T. Ogata: Stereo Multistage Spatial Attention for Real-Time Mobile Manipulation Under Visual Scale Variation and Disturbances 5. T. Tsukakoshi, T. Miyake, T. Ogata, Y. Wang, T. Akaishi, and S. Sugano: Close-Fitting Dressing Assistance Based on State Estimation of Feet and Garments with Semantic-based Visual Attention

@tetsuyaogata1 @T_Miyake3 おめでとうございます🎉

今週は、愛知県国際展示場に来ています 6月11日から13日まで開催されるROBOT TECHNOLOGY JAPAN 2026にて、FingerVisionの視触覚情報を用いた模倣学習によるケーブル配策デモの展示をしております ご興味ある方は是非お立ち寄りください

@StevenOh_ @JasonJZLiu @_tonytao_ Great work @StevenOh_ !!! 😄🫡 can’t wait to see this being published soon!

Force sensing for low-cost robot arms — without adding force sensors. 🚀 Excited to share FACTR 2! 🚀 FACTR 2 enables external torque sensing on low cost arms and uses it to improve policy learning. w/ @JasonJZLiu  @_tonytao_ 🧵(1/6)

At ICRA 2026, our research group achieved two major outcomes. Our ICRA paper, “TaSA: Two-Phased Deep Predictive Learning of Tactile Sensory Attenuation for Improving In-Grasp Manipulation,” was featured in Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun. nikkan.co.jp/articles/view/… In addition, our poster presentation, “A uSkin Fingertip with a Tactile Fingernail for Contact-Rich Dexterous Manipulation,” received the Best Poster Award at the ICRA workshop “Dexterity with Multifingered Hands: Hardware, Sensing, and Skills.” We will continue to push forward with our research, and we sincerely appreciate your continued support.

今回のICRA2026では、本研究グループから2つの成果を出しました。 ICRA論文「TaSA: Two-Phased Deep Predictive Learning of Tactile Sensory Attenuation for Improving In-Grasp Manipulation」が、日刊工業新聞に取り上げられました。 nikkan.co.jp/articles/view/… ICRAワークショップのDexterity with Multifingered Hands: Hardware, Sensing, and Skillsにおいて、ポスター発表「A uSkin Fingertip with a Tactile Fingernail for Contact-Rich Dexterous Manipulation」がBest Poster Awardを受賞しました。 （動画添付、指と爪両方に触覚センサを付け、より安定したカードフリップ動作を実現） 引き続き研究頑張りますので、関係者の皆様よろしくお願いいたします。

#ICRA2026 次は早大・尾形先生からAIRoAの講演！

本研究をICRA2026で発表しています。

記事にしていただきました。Self-touchを学習することで、小物体のハンドリング性能を向上させる研究です。 nikkan.co.jp/articles/view/…

Presenting 1 conference paper and 2 workshop papers with @StevenOh_ at #ICRA2026 #Vienna Supported by @tetsuyaogata1 & @funabashihand profs! Conference: TaSA: arxiv.org/pdf/2602.05468 Workshops: Tactile GNN: shanluo.github.io/ViTacWorkshops… uSkin fingernail: dex-manipulation.github.io/icra2026/

The Telegraph tests out AI-assisted old age at the – mechanical – hands of a Japanese Airec device 🔗: telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

@tatsukamijo @jeremy_dasa @sherryyangML Congratulations @tatsukamijo 💪😎

I will be joining NYU Courant as a CS PhD student this fall, advised by @sherryyangML . Looking forward to my new journey in New York 🇺🇸!

Thrilled to share my bachelor’s research “TaSA” was accepted as a first-authored paper at IEEE #ICRA2026 (Jun 1–5, Vienna)! 🤖 Huge thanks to profs: @funabashihand , A. Schmitz, @tetsuyaogata1 & S. Sugano. 📜 arxiv.org/pdf/2602.05468 📹 youtu.be/aGgy2d86JfE

@arnie_hacker @FingerVisionInc @TokyoAI_JP @trail_ut @Tokyo_Robotics

In Japan for next 10 days who should I meet? @localhostJPN 👀? Any other robotics start-ups or hacker houses?

@yamini_speaks Hopefully you and the car are safe ma’am 😭

@yamini_speaks Wow, so far usually they just go without saying sorry and escape which is kinda normalized but this… this is another level of arrogance.

Hvy traffic near holiday Inn signal at omr. A truck driver bangs my car from the back. "Ippadi break pidichitte pona, appidi than idippen". Couldn't respond to him in the traffic. Praying that the Universe gives him a proper response for the audacity he had.