🎉 Huge congratulations to our very own Prof. Aloimonos for being named an IEEE Fellow for 2025! 🏆 His groundbreaking work on Active Perception for Robots continues to shape the future of robotics. 🌟👏 #Robotics #IEEEFellow2025 @umdcs @UMDResearch

1/ 🧠Humans are the best robot data source! 2/ 👓Human egocentric video is rich in quantity, but poor in quality. 3/ Beyond scaling data, smarter representation and architecture matter just as much. 4/ Want an open-source framework to train your own learn-from-human-data robot policy? 🚀We introduce HumanEgo: Zero-Shot Robot Learning from Minutes of Human Egocentric Videos⬇️ ✦ Zero-Shot Human-to-Robot Transfer ✦ Robot-Data-Free ✦ Just 30 min of data per task ✦ Collect by Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere ✦ Deploy on Any Robot, Any Camera, Any Environment ✦ Open-Source & Easy-to-Implement Let's squeeze every bit of signal out of human data! 🌐 Website: humanego-ai.github.io 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2605.24934 💻 Code: github.com/TX-Leo/HumanEgo 📹 Video: youtu.be/pdL46diijuY 🧵 1/n

PRG had an outstanding presence at NYU Vision Day! 🌟 Huge shoutout to Eadom and @levisburner for delivering incredible lightning talks! ⚡️We also had fantastic poster presentations from our other students. Loved sharing our work and connecting with everyone! 🚀 #NYUVisionDay

#MayrlandDay was a blast!🐢🐢 Perception and Robotics Group showcased exciting demos from bio inspired drones to robot manipulation and more. Huge thanks to everyone who stopped by and shared excitement of robotics🤖 #MarylandDay #Robotics #UMIACS

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Had an amazing time at the Princeton Robotics Symposium 🤖👀 presenting our work on Purposive Perception: Task-Aware Sensing for Robot Navigation and sharing our new project, PolarDepth. The most exciting part? Connecting with so many brilliant researchers, hearing inspiring talks, and exchanging ideas on where robotics is headed next. Huge thanks to @Majumdar_Ani, @awissa_bid, and Princeton Robotics for putting together such a fantastic event. #Robotics #AI #ComputerVision #InsectinspiredAI #UMIACS

🚨 Huge congrats to our very own Eadom on the Graduate Research Assistant Award! 🏆 His research studies how robots learn from human videos and how passive visual representations improve through embodied physical interaction. More:share.google/lBNe5y0LAhjqtRf… #EmbodiedAI #PRG #UMIACS

A multi-institutional team—which includes @UofMaryland researchers Yiannis Aloimonos and students Aadi Palnitkar and Arjun Suresh—has created a rhino-detection system that pairs satellite data with AI to boost conservation efforts. today.umd.edu/to-protect-rhi…

A wonderful reunion at @USouthFlorida 🌴 Prof. Yiannis gave an inspiring talk, hosted by our very own alum Prof. @XiaominLin11 . Fantastic labs, creative people, great conversations. Meliora 🔬🤝

🦾Can robots measure without rulers? @UofMaryland researchers are developing biologically inspired sensing that lets robots “learn” size and distance through movement, just like humans and animals. Read more: go.umd.edu/burner11-2025

Honored to share my thoughts on Insect-Inspired AI. Stay tuned for our upcoming research. #Robotics #AI #Bioinspired @umiacs @prgumd

The @UofMaryland's AI media day featured @umiacs-supported research from the Perception & Robotics Group and the Small Artifacts Lab: Levi Burner (@levisburner) demoed a drone that uses AI to stabilize its image capturing system. Learn more: go.umd.edu/23qe Jiasheng Li (@jsli_21) demonstrated wearable technology that can communicate messages non-verbally to the visually impaired. Learn more: go.umd.edu/23qg

The @UofMaryland is hosting a media event to showcase a broad range of #AI activities on campus. Several faculty and students @umiacs participated, including Hal Daumé III (@haldaume3) and Naitri Rajyaguru (@naitri_r) from the Perception and Robotics Group.

📢 PRG Seminar Series Join us for a talk by Prof. Tobi Delbruck (UZH-ETH Zurich), inventor of the Event Camera 🎥⚡ 🗓️ Tue, Aug 26, 2025 ⏰ 11:00 AM 📍 Room IRB 4105 Topic: Using neuromorphic sparsity for perception & AI inference Details: prg.cs.umd.edu/fall2025talk1… #ComputerVision

🚀 Meet PRG at #ICRA2025! We’re excited to present 4 papers on diverse topics pushing the boundaries of robotics. Come say hi — we’d love to connect! 🤖 @ieee_ras_icra

A wonderful reunion at @CUBoulder! Prof. Yiannis gave an inspiring talk, invited by our very own alum Prof. @chahatdeep Great minds, great conversations! 🔬🤝 Talk Recording: tinyurl.com/recordingboulder #Robotics #CUboulder #UMDCS

⭐ Truly a special moment to host your Ph.D. advisor at your university as a faculty member! We at the @CUBoulder, are honored to invite Yiannis Aloimonos from the @UofMaryland and @prgumd for the Robotics Seminar on "Action Grammar: The Basis of Intelligent Robots". Seminar Details: 📅 When: Today (April 29, 2025) ⏰ Time: 3.30 PM MT (Mountain Time | 5.30 PM ET) 📌 Where: ECCR 245 🌎 Zoom: lnkd.in/eyyp5r3K (Password: umd)

As the semester ends, we reflect on a year of progress in perception and robotics. Our lab tackled unique questions, explored bold ideas, and made meaningful contributions. Thank you to our team for your hard work and collaboration. Here's to building on this momentum in 2025!

Congrats to @UofMaryland robotics expert Yiannis Aloimonos, named an @IEEEorg Fellow for 2025! He was recognized for groundbreaking work in active perception and in the perception of action—key concepts for computer vision used in autonomous systems. go.umd.edu/IEEEFellow