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Happening at RI

Expanding What Robots Can Learn in the Real World

Event Category:
RI Seminar

Speaker:
Roberto Martín-Martín

Event Time:
Friday, October 30th - 2:30 PM

RI PhD Thesis Proposal – Wenli Xiao

Event Category:
PhD Thesis Proposal

Speaker:
Wenli Xiao

Event Time:
Monday, November 2nd - 12:30 PM

Structured Learning for Fast Physical Prediction

Event Category:
VASC Seminar

Speaker:
Chang Yue

Event Time:
Thursday, November 5th - 3:30 PM

A Little Wiggle Helps Robots Learn the Ropes

The Breakdown: Wiggling a rope to learn how it moves helps robots estimate its physical properties. Planning before acting helps robots predict how ropes and cables will behave without practicing the task first. More reliable robots could improve rope and cable handling in manufacturing...

Bajcsy Awarded Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering

Andrea Bajcsy, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Kenneth C. Griffin School of Computer Science, has received a 2026 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. The fellowship, awarded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, provides early career researchers with $985,834...

Bajcsy Named 2026 AI2050 Early Career Fellow

Robotics Institute Assistant Professor Andrea Bajcsy joins the Language Technologies Institute's faculty members Akari Asai and Daniel Fried as recipients of the Schmidt Sciences honor.