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I'll give a keynote at #ICRA2026! see you next week in Vienna! 2026.ieee-icra.org/program/k…
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Picasso relies on a fast rejection sampling method that reasons over multi-object interactions, and accounts for geometry, non-penetration, and physics. We show it improves SAM3D results and builds scenes that can be used for simulation (2/3).
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In the meanwhile, I will keep advancing robot perception with my amazing group at MIT! Lots of exciting things cooking :-) [2/2]
#InsideAmazon #mitSparkLab
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Here is the recording of the Robotics Worldwide Workshop, held at MIT on April 4, 2025: youtube.com/watch?v=0OdOvkm5…
-includes "All Robotics in 90 minutes" lightning talks and a panel discussion on the future of robotics. not for the faint of heart. #mitSparkLab @MITLIDS @MIT_SCC
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yours truly featured on the MIT homepage: news.mit.edu/ (permanent link: news.mit.edu/2025/expanding-…) . I'm very thankful to have the support of my research team, mentors, friends, and family. The best's yet to come at #mitSparkLab
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if you are interested in working with me or other #MIT faculty, consider applying to these Postdoctoral Fellowship programs:
- METEOR: computing.mit.edu/METEOR
- PFPEE: engineering.mit.edu/the-mit-…
best of luck!
#postdoc #fellowships #mitSparkLab #mit
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very excited about this work from the #mitSparkLab on task-driven open-set 3d mapping!!
Helping robots zero in on the objects that matter.
LIDS PI @lucacarlone1 and collaborators have developed a new method called Clio that enables robots to quickly map a scene and to make intuitive, task-relevant decisions. Learn more and read their paper: bit.ly/3Bxhnnq
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yay!! congrats to the #mitSparkLab team! and thanks @ir0armeni and team for organizing the Nothing Stands Still Challenge!
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We are excited to (finally make the post to) announce the winners of the 2024 Nothing Stands Still Challenge, 3rd Workshop on Future of Construction, ICRA24:
🥇 1st Prize (4K CHF)
@hyungtaelim*, Jingnan Shi*, Yun Chang *, Lukas Schmid*, Prof. @lucacarlone1
SPARK Lab, MIT
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知覚機能を備えたソフトドローンによる高速空中把持
鳥が獲物を捕獲するかのように飛んできて物体を把持する
youtu.be/HF4M7TooqfE
#drone #quadrotor #aerial_robot #robotics #gripper #manipulator #softrobot #grasp #MIT #MITSPARKLab
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Full paper: rdcu.be/dR0sM
great work by Samuel Ubellacker, Aaron Ray, James Bern, Jared Strader
#mitSparkLab #aerialGrasping #softRobotics #softDrone #robotics #NatureRobotics #UAVs #drones @MITAeroAstro @MITLIDS [3/3]
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#Khronos won the Outstanding Systems Paper Award at #RSS2024 !! very proud of Lukas, Marcus, and Yun!
Khronos' code and paper are online:
Video: youtu.be/YsH6YIL5_kc?si=XXK6…
Code: github.com/MIT-SPARK/Khronos
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2402.13817
#mitSparkLab #4DSceneUnderstanding
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Work led by the amazing Nathan Hughes, and in collaboration with Yun Chang, Siyi Hu, Rumaisa Abdulhai, Rajat Talak, Jared Strader, along with new contributors Lukas Schmid, Aaron Ray, and Marcus Abate. [3/3]
#mitSparkLab #spatialPerception #robotPerception #3DSceneGraphs
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very proud of my postdoc Hyungtae Lim for winning the Nothing Stands Still Challenge at #ICRA2024 in collaboration with Jingnan Shi, Yun Chang,& Lukas Schmid!! also great that the team winning 2nd place used github.com/MIT-SPARK/TEASER-… @hankyang94
#mitSparkLab @MITAeroAstro @mitidss
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I just got tenure from #MIT! I feel fortunate & proud of the work done with many talented and awesome students, postdocs, and collaborators at the #MITSparkLab. I'm also grateful to my wife, family, friends, & mentors for their support. now I look forward to building what's next!
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great work by Nicolas Gorlo and Lukas Schmid!
Video: youtu.be/mzumT3T0dYw?feature…
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2405.00552
Code: github.com/MIT-SPARK/LP2
#mitSparkLab #motionPrediction #LLM #AI #robotics #autonomousSystems
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great work by Dominic Maggio, Yun Chang, Nathan Hughes, Lukas Schmid, and our amazing collaborators, Matthew Trang, Dan Griffith, Carlyn Dougherty, and Eric Cristofalo, at MIT Lincoln Laboratory!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2404.13696
#mitSparkLab #mit #robotPerception #mapping #AI [n/n]
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19 Jan 2024
This is the recording of the TEDxMIT talk I gave last December at MIT - take a look if you want to get a bird's-eye view of our research: youtu.be/zETIKCzatYo?feature…
#mitSparkLab #tedxmit #TEDtalks #MIT #robotPerception #robotics #selfdriving
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This recent work shows how to build 3D scene graphs of arbitrary (including outdoor) environments without much training data: arxiv.org/pdf/2312.11713.pdf. Recipe: use LLMs to build an ontology of concepts, and Logic Tensor Networks to ground them into the real world. #mitsparklab
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I'll give a talk at TEDxMIT this Saturday! Join us for a fun event, including a movie premier, many cool talks, and performances by the MIT [Fire] Spinning Club -- free registration here: tedx.mit.edu
#mitsparklab #tedx #tedxtalks #robotics
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very proud of my student Dominic Maggio, whose work on terrain relative navigation ---tested on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket--- was featured on Aerospace America! #mitSparkLab #robotPerception #visionbasedNavigation #aerospace
Enjoy the article: aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/de…
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