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How can a robot provide details of plant anatomy for plant phenotyping? Today @IROS2025 , we present Botany-Bot from @berkeley_ai @Siemens. Botany-Bot 1) creates segmented 3D models of plants using Gaussian splats and GarField 2) uses a robot arm to expose hidden details. (1/9)

Big news🎉: The Deep Learning Indaba 2025 Research Track proceedings are officially LIVE! We are excited to announce that the research presented at #DLI2025, is now published in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR), Volume 302. A huge congratulations to all the authors, reviewers, and organisers whose work made this possible. This is an important milestone in showcasing and advancing African-led research in machine learning. Read the full proceedings here: proceedings.mlr.press/v302/ #DLI2025 #ResearchTrack

The viser viewer in mjlab just got a huge QOL upgrade! - Real-time factor control: go slower or faster than real-time and viewer paces physics to match - Single step mode: advance one physics step at a time (super useful for debugging!) - Overall faster and smoother

@brenthyi who worked on FPO/FPO++ is finishing his PhD and going on the job market 😭✨ He is also the person behind viser, pyroki, egoallo, jaxls, tyro and more! I can't express how amazing it is to have Brent on your team..! Any team would be incredibly lucky to have him!!

🪘 Call for African Datasets 🪘 We are delighted to announce the call for the African Datasets as part of the Research in Africa Days at Deep Learning Indaba 2026 in Nigeria. Data is the heartbeat of innovation, and we are expanding the African Dataset Repository to ensure African realities power the global AI revolution. We invite startups, researchers, individuals, and organisations to submit datasets that reflect the diverse challenges and opportunities of the continent. Why Join the Mission? ✨Visibility: Selected datasets will be featured during the Research in Africa Days. ✨Impact: Help make African data the foundation for innovations that transform lives and build a brighter future. ✨Representation: Selected teams will designate a representative to attend the Indaba in Nigeria and represent their work. Deadline: 20 March 2026. Submit Here:👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/1C-2Cj… #DLI2026 #Indaba2026

tl;dr New planner for world models! GRASP: gradient-based, stochastic, parallelized. Long range planning for world models has always been an issue. 0th order methods like CEM/MPPI dominate, but have degrading performance at longer contexts or higher-dimensional actions. We wanted to address this from the ground up. w/ Michael Rabbat, @ask1729 , @ylecun*, @_amirbar* (equally advised)

Glad to have been a part of this. Use AugE-Toolkit to scale up your robot embodimet augmentation. Use OXE-AugE to train new policies and extend existing policies to new embodiments.

Meet Scanford 📚🤖: a robot that improves foundation models by doing useful work in the wild. Deployed for 2 weeks in the Stanford East Asia Library, Scanford scans books, helps librarians, and continually improves the VLM it relies on. 🔗 scanford-robot.github.io 🧵1/8

Congratulations to @kevin_zakka. Well deserved!

Can a robot inspect all views of an object? Today @IROS, we present Omni-Scan from @berkeley_ai, a novel method for bimanual robo 360° object scanning & reconstruction using 3D Gaussian Splats. (1/8) 🔗berkeleyautomation.github.io/omni-scan/

Looking fwd to @AUTOLab students presenting 4 papers @IROS2025 this week in Hangzhou, starting today with "A 'Botany-Bot' for Digital Twin Monitoring of Occluded and Underleaf Plant Structures" co-authored with @funmilore @shuangyuXxx & our collaborators @Siemens Eugene Solowjow.

Botany-Bot is in collaboration with @ChungMInKim, @justkerrding, Shuaungyu Xie, Prithvi Akella, Jose Luis Susa Rincon, Eugen Solowjow, and @Ken_Goldberg. (9/9). See our website for our paper and more details: berkeleyautomation.github.io/Botany-Bot

We also obtain the physical metrics of leaf height and leaf area and number of leaves directly from digital twin plant data. (8/9)

How can a robot provide details of plant anatomy for plant phenotyping? Today @IROS2025 , we present Botany-Bot from @berkeley_ai @Siemens. Botany-Bot 1) creates segmented 3D models of plants using Gaussian splats and GarField 2) uses a robot arm to expose hidden details. (1/9)

A different way for robots to see, closer to how humans see! Interesting work led by @justkerrding !