Yahav Avigal

@elonmusk @Ken_Goldberg I see the Fling2Fold motion primitive from Speedfolding here (youtu.be/ulLAMBWe040?si…)

Important note: Optimus cannot yet do this autonomously, but certainly will be able to do this fully autonomously and in an arbitrary environment (won’t require a fixed table with box that has only one shirt)

We train a robot 🐕 to traverse complex terrains with a monocular RGB camera from its own real-world experience! To do so we propose Cross-Modal Supervision (CMS), an algorithm to supervise vision using proprioception. Project Page: tinyurl.com/4sr5d6z3 1/5

Hearty congratulations to @Ken_Goldberg @yahavigal on winning the Best Paper Award @2022Iros for their laundry-folding robot! Coverage from NPR: npr.org/2022/10/22/113…

The fastest ever laundry-folding robot is here. And it's likely still slower than you. (via @rachel_treisman for @NPR) apple.news/AZhYuS1jwQyKEM…

We’re making progress but new motors and solid engineering are needed for the next generation of affordable and accurate robot arms. @ElonMusk @Tesla: can you put this on your roadmap?

Evaluating progress in robotic manipulation is challenging due to the cost & diversity of robots—but what if we had shared access to a remote robot over the Internet? I’m in Japan all week and will be presenting our work w/ @GoogleAI tomorrow at 11:20 AM JST at #IROS2022! (1/3)

For more details: Website: pantor.github.io/speedfolding/ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2208.10552 Video: youtube.com/watch?v=em675-… (8/8)

SpeedFolding was developed by two amateur garment folders in an @AUTOLab and @KIT collaboration. It has been an honor working with the brilliant Lars Berscheid, and we’re grateful to @Ken_Goldberg, Torsten Kröger, and Tamim Asfour for their guidance throughout the project. (7/8)

Does anyone enjoy folding laundry? Robots are often too slow; We’re presenting a paper @IROS2022 on how to speed up folding by an order of magnitude. SpeedFolding uses novel perception and action primitives to fold 30-40 garments per hour. (1/8)

"The heart of @AmbiRobotics' technology is using the laws of physics to 'turn robot grasping into something like a game of Atari.'" @JeffMahler @BradStone bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

What’s the future of food? Polyculture farming is more sustainable than monoculture, but requires more labor. Could robots help? New results w/ AlphaGarden using “Real2Sim2Real” learning from @AUTOLab_Cal @UCBerkeley. Data, paper, and presentation: sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/a… (1/9)

Fun to be in London with @jeff_ichnowski @ashwinb96 @brthananjeyan @ryan_hoque @yahavigal @AleEscontrela & Justin Kerr from @AUTOLab_Cal checking out @anickali’s elegant floating robots @tatemodern, eating Yorkshire pudding and looking fwd to robotics rendezvous this week:

Thanks to @jeff_ichnowski (co-lead), Justin Kerr, and @Ken_Goldberg, to appear at @corl_conf 2021! ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2110.14217 Website: sites.google.com/view/dex-nerf Video: youtube.com/watch?v=F9R6Nf… (10/10)

We also find that multiple light sources increase specular reflections, allowing Dex-NeRF to compute more accurate depth images. (9/10)

To help robots grasp transparent objects such as glassware and test-tubes, Dex-NeRF combines grasp analysis from Dex-Net with Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). To appear in #CoRL2021 @UCBerkeley @Berkeley_AI @AUTOLab_Cal. Data, paper, and video: sites.google.com/view/dex-nerf (1/10)