🤖🍓📚 Robotics & World Models Reading Club 08 — San Francisco
@saturdayrobotic
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Core Theme: Embodied Human Data as the “Internet of Motion and Behavior” 🚀
Keynote:
@ryan_punamiya (
@NVIDIARobotics GEAR/
@GeorgiaTech)
Vision-language models had the entire internet. Robotics is still stuck with expensive teleoperation.
New paradigm: Embodied human data (egocentric videos large-scale behavior) as the “Internet of Motion” for robots.
In this talk, Ryan will talk about some of the recent works in learning from egocentric human data, large-scale human pre-training, human-robot co-design and world modeling from human experience. And conclude with some future directions and food for thought in this exciting new direction.
📍 San Francisco (Downtown)
🗓 Saturday, May 16, 2026 | 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Hosted by
@junfanzhu98 &
@aurorafeng_01 @neuralmotion
Pre-Readings 🔥
Learning Dexterous Manipulation from Egocentric Human Videos
arxiv.org/abs/2410.24221
Scaling Robot Learning with Human Behavior Priors
arxiv.org/abs/2509.19626
Cross-Embodiment Policy Learning via Representation Alignment
arxiv.org/abs/2509.04443v1
Human-Robot Co-Design for Scalable Data Collection
arxiv.org/abs/2512.22414
World Models from Human Experience
arxiv.org/abs/2602.16710
Ego-Exo Transfer
arxiv.org/abs/2505.21864
Internet-Scale Human Motion Pretraining for Robotics
arxiv.org/abs/2604.07607
Learning Generalist Robot Policies from Human Demonstrations
arxiv.org/abs/2602.06949
Come ready to discuss cross-embodiment, scaling laws for motion data, and building the real “Internet of Motion”! 💡
Agenda
2:00 PM — Doors open networking 🍓 Unlimited strawberries, food & drinks 😋 (our official Reading Club fruit!)
2:30 PM — Keynote by Ryan Punamiya
3:30 PM — Open-floor roundtable deep Q&A
Zoom YouTube TBD (recording volunteers welcome!)
Past sessions brought together researchers & engineers from Boston Dynamics, Google, NVIDIA, Stanford, UC Berkeley, CMU, Tesla, Rhoda AI, Dyna, Generalist, Meta FAIR, & top Bay Area robotics startups.
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