Venkatesh

One of the most exciting things we did with YOR is we found an off-the-shelf solution for a vertical lift. We just hacked a standing desk leg by reading its quadrature encoder and driving its motor through an H-bridge. It's only ~200$ to have a vastly larger workspace.

Robots don't need to be expensive or complex to be capable. Meet YOR, our new open-source, bimanual mobile manipulator robot for less than ~$10k.

Best ideas are often the simplest in hindsight. Meet Contact-Anchored Policies (CAP)🧢: by conditioning policies on physical contact (vs language) we achieve env & embodiment generalization with super low resources. This policy ⬇️ learned to pick from scratch w/ 16 hrs of data 🧵

Can we bridge the Sim-to-Real gap in complex manipulation without explicit system ID? 🤖 Presenting Contact-Aware Neural Dynamics — a diffusion-based framework that grounds simulation with real-world touch. Implicit Alignment: No tedious parameter tuning. Tactile-Driven: Captures non-smooth contact events. Consistent: Stable predictions in contact-rich tasks.

this is really cool and readily popular / reproducible enough to the point i’m finding people making the sensor in the depths of chinese wechat groups the attention to reproducibility from Lerrel’s lab is incredible and something I often strive to achieve

this is really cool and readily popular / reproducible enough to the point i’m finding people making the sensor in the depths of chinese wechat groups the attention to reproducibility from Lerrel’s lab is incredible and something I often strive to achieve