

Yiting Chen
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@YitingChen07
PhD Student in Robot Manipulation @RiceUniversity





Help measure progress in robotics research: a specific & verifiable physical benchmark for cable routing, part of a broader ManipulationNet effort by Kaiyu Hang (Rice U) and Kenny Kimble (NIST) and others from MIT, Berkeley, CMU, Columbia, UT, Tsinghua... manipulation-net.org/tasks/cable_ro…

If you are interested in benchmarking in robotics, we introduce a real-world pick-and-place benchmark by creating replicable scenes! irvlutd.github.io/SceneReplica/

GEN-0 models exhibit strong scaling laws, in which more pretraining data and compute consistently (and predictably) improve downstream post-training performance of the model across many tasks. 🔬📈🧠


As much as you can do system-level evaluation on the cheap this is the only way i think. - mail out standard object sets - have a client which records task performance and streams it



“You can’t make progress until you are able to measure it. Robotics still doesn’t have such a rallying call. No one agrees on anything.” I 💯 agree with the recent post from @DrJimFan. To break this impasse, we are excited to announce ManipulationNet (manipulation-net.org), a community-driven global infrastructure supported by @NIST, that enables benchmarking real-world robot manipulation research at scale with any robot at any time and anywhere on standardized task setups. ManipulationNet’s key features include: ✅delivers standardized hardware kits globally to support reproducible task setups ✅provides online task instructions in real-time, which could involve visual/language prompts, task-specific instructions, etc.. ✅collects authentic manipulation performance for comparable results on global leaderboards 🌍Join the ManipulationNet, let us aim to "connect the dots" of the up-to-date progresses and challenges to construct a network of real-world robot abilities and skills, a network of research roadmaps, and a network of research questions. Want to learn more about ManipulationNet? Check out the links below: 🔗Project website: manipulation-net.org 🔗Founding Committee and Developer Team: manipulation-net.org/committee.html 🔗Paper: manipulation-net.org/MNet_preprint.… (1/7)



“You can’t make progress until you are able to measure it. Robotics still doesn’t have such a rallying call. No one agrees on anything.” I 💯 agree with the recent post from @DrJimFan. To break this impasse, we are excited to announce ManipulationNet (manipulation-net.org), a community-driven global infrastructure supported by @NIST, that enables benchmarking real-world robot manipulation research at scale with any robot at any time and anywhere on standardized task setups. ManipulationNet’s key features include: ✅delivers standardized hardware kits globally to support reproducible task setups ✅provides online task instructions in real-time, which could involve visual/language prompts, task-specific instructions, etc.. ✅collects authentic manipulation performance for comparable results on global leaderboards 🌍Join the ManipulationNet, let us aim to "connect the dots" of the up-to-date progresses and challenges to construct a network of real-world robot abilities and skills, a network of research roadmaps, and a network of research questions. Want to learn more about ManipulationNet? Check out the links below: 🔗Project website: manipulation-net.org 🔗Founding Committee and Developer Team: manipulation-net.org/committee.html 🔗Paper: manipulation-net.org/MNet_preprint.… (1/7)






“You can’t make progress until you are able to measure it. Robotics still doesn’t have such a rallying call. No one agrees on anything.” I 💯 agree with the recent post from @DrJimFan. To break this impasse, we are excited to announce ManipulationNet (manipulation-net.org), a community-driven global infrastructure supported by @NIST, that enables benchmarking real-world robot manipulation research at scale with any robot at any time and anywhere on standardized task setups. ManipulationNet’s key features include: ✅delivers standardized hardware kits globally to support reproducible task setups ✅provides online task instructions in real-time, which could involve visual/language prompts, task-specific instructions, etc.. ✅collects authentic manipulation performance for comparable results on global leaderboards 🌍Join the ManipulationNet, let us aim to "connect the dots" of the up-to-date progresses and challenges to construct a network of real-world robot abilities and skills, a network of research roadmaps, and a network of research questions. Want to learn more about ManipulationNet? Check out the links below: 🔗Project website: manipulation-net.org 🔗Founding Committee and Developer Team: manipulation-net.org/committee.html 🔗Paper: manipulation-net.org/MNet_preprint.… (1/7)


The pursuit of a unified benchmark for robot manipulation has been long-standing — and with ManipulationNet, it’s finally taking a leap forward! manipulation-net.org ManipulationNet is a fully real-world, verifiable, and scalable benchmark for robotic manipulation. Anyone can evaluate and submit results via the mnet-client. Evaluations are centralized, and rankings are global. Born from the NIST Assembly Tasks, now expanding to embodied reasoning, peg-in-hole, and beyond! #robotics #AI #benchmark



