Achu Wilson

Excited to announce that we made it into the finals of Kuka Innovation Award 2021:AI Challenge. Here is the spotlight video showing our new gripper and its applications youtu.be/pmWLGsZlmDk #robotics #IISc #MIT_CSAIL

After seeing people using ROS MoveIT to make simple robot motions and getting frustrated when the RRT planner chooses the weirdest path, I wrote a simple library to control UR5 robots. github.com/achuwilson/eas… Icing on the cake: it also comes with a cool GUI! @Universal_Robot

@pulkitology @taochenshh Wow, this looks pretty impressive!. Any link to the paper? Couldn't find it on the project page.

Presenting Visual Dexterity: Object re-orientation in its full generality! Single camera. Novel objects. Any orientation. Downward-facing hand that fights gravity. Real-time dynamic control. Open source setup. Learn more: taochenshh.github.io/projects/visua… Led by @taochenshh #robots #rl

Es el 20º mes consecutivo q la OPEP+ no ha alcanzado los objetivos de producción. En ese período de tiempo, el déficit acumulado de suministro de petróleo al mercado frente a los objetivos se ha disparado a más de 900millones de barriles 🧵➡️1⃣ @amturiel twitter.com/BisonInterests…

As @NeurIPSConf #NeurIPS2021 deadline approaches, I've consolidated some technical writing tips. Succinct answers to each of the questions, Voila, you have a crisp Introduction! Expand on prior work, intuition/tech details, & expts for the rest ensuring the why is always clear

Learn about a new open-source benchmark and suite of simulated tasks for robotic manipulation of deformable objects — including cables, fabrics and bags — with a set of model architectures that enable learning complex relative spatial relations. goo.gle/3ofyfnQ

@markus_with_k Goodnotes 5 + Google Drive

I started using Drake last year and hasn't yet looked back.

"If you have needs for an industrial strength robotics toolbox that can enable your research and engineering applications, then take a serious look at Drake." Dr. Russ Tedrake, TRI's VP of Robotics Research, introduces open-source tool for roboticists.⬇️🦾medium.com/toyotaresearch…

Tips for Research and a PhD by @seb_ruder TL;DR: • Read broadly • Work on 2 things • Be ambitious • Collaborate • Be proactive • Blog • Keep a source of positive energy • Play to your strengths • Intern / visit a university • Play the long game ruder.io/10-tips-for-re…

@TapoBhat @cs_cornell @CornellCIS Congrats Tapo!

I am grateful and thrilled to be joining @cs_cornell, @CornellCIS as an Asst. Proff. (Fall’ 20 / Fall’ 21). This was possible only due to continuous support from my family, mentors, and friends. And, a big shout-out to all the fellow faculty candidates. This year was tough.

And that's some news about my small state Kerala, on how we are defending covid so far, bringing the curves down when the national curves are going up. (378 cases, 198 recovered including 90+aged, 2 deaths, 36 Million population) technologyreview.com/2020/04/13/999…

"Thinking while Moving" looks cool

Kerala's COVID-19 response has been humane, caring and successful. They've kept their death toll to 2, and new cases are falling thanks to widespread community testing. It puts the so-called "first world" to shame. washingtonpost.com/world/aggressi…

Check out new research into applying transfer learning to robotic manipulation. By leveraging pre-trained weights from computer vision models, it’s possible to greatly improve the training efficiency for robotic manipulation tasks. Learn all about it at bit.ly/39dmLZ7

Google AI Blog:Introducing Dreamer: Scalable Reinforcement Learning Using World Models ai.googleblog.com/2020/03/introd… via @googleai

Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now by @tomaspueyo link.medium.com/aNvjs2ctL4

@Nithooz Whatsup!

@AkihikoYmgch Thanks for noticing and spreading the word.

Great work from MIT GelSight team. --- Design of a Fully Actuated Robotic Hand With Multiple Gelsight Tactile Sensors achuwilson.github.io/papers/gelsigh…

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