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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 21d

Also: if you are interested in working on VLAs/LBMs, my group is recruiting interns! I’m particularly interested in improving 3D reasoning in embodied foundation models. Come find me to chat if this sounds interesting to you!

Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 24d

I’ll be in Seoul for #CoRL2025 this week, helping run the Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds workshop. I'll also be at the TRI booth and the TRI Women and Allies Breakfast. Come say hello or DM me! Looking forward to seeing everyone in person.

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 24d

I’ll be in Seoul for #CoRL2025 this week, helping run the Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds workshop. I'll also be at the TRI booth and the TRI Women and Allies Breakfast. Come say hello or DM me! Looking forward to seeing everyone in person.

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · Aug 18

We've extended the deadline to August 25th, 2025 🎉 Hope this helps any submissions that didn't quite make it in by the 18th. If you're working on robot simulation please consider submitting!

Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · Aug 4

Are you working on real-to-sim, sim-to-real, learning world models, or using physics based simulators to do interesting robotics tasks? There are 15 days to the submission deadline for our CoRL workshop Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds. More details here simulatingrobotworlds.github.io/submit.html

Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds

simulatingrobotworlds.github.io

Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · Aug 4

Are you working on real-to-sim, sim-to-real, learning world models, or using physics based simulators to do interesting robotics tasks? There are 15 days to the submission deadline for our CoRL workshop Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds. More details here simulatingrobotworlds.github.io/submit.html

Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds

simulatingrobotworlds.github.io

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · Aug 1

And thanks to all the organizers for working together to make this a successful workshop! Including
@egavves.bsky.social @cgumbsch.bsky.social @yunzhu-li.bsky.social @zadaianchuk.bsky.social
+ many others!

#CoRL2025 #sim2real #real2sim #robotworldmodels #robotics

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · Aug 1

Have you been working on simulating worlds for robots?Submit to our workshop! Example topics include: real-to-sim and sim-to-real learning, photorealistic differentiable simulation, and end-to-end learned world models. The submission deadline is 8/18/2025.
simulatingrobotworlds.github.io/submit.html

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · Aug 1

We’re really excited about the speakers we have lined up, including Animesh Garg (Georgia Tech) @animesh-garg.bsky.social , Daniel Ho (1X Technologies), Hao Su (UCSD), Katerina Fragkiadki (CMU), Yilun Du (Harvard) @yilundu.bsky.social, and Russ Tedrake (TRI + MIT).

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · Aug 1

We envision this workshop as a forum to bring together researchers from traditionally separate communities: those focused on high-fidelity simulators and those developing learned implicit models.

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · Aug 1

🚀 We’re pleased to announce our workshop at CoRL 2025: Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds! Workshop website: simulatingrobotworlds.github.io
The workshop aims to cover topics like physics-grounded simulation, photorealistic digital twins, AI-controlled simulators, to learned neural world models.

Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds

Join the Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds workshop.

simulatingrobotworlds.github.io

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · Jun 9

Come hang out! We ran a similar event at CoRL last year that was really fun.

Robotics: Science and Systems @roboticsscisys.bsky.social · Jun 8

Attending #RSS2025? Do you want to mingle with Toyota Research Institute (TRI) researchers and other RSS attendees in an informal breakfast setting? TRI is organizing a women & allies breakfast on June 24th at 8am! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

TRI Women & Allies Breakfast @ RSS 2025

Join us for a morning of great conversation, inspiration, and networking alongside some yummy breakfast snacks as Toyota Research Institute (TRI) hosts its first RSS Women & Allies breakfast. We look...

docs.google.com

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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · Jun 3

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN!!!! Time to wake up early and go watch birds at the @cvprconference.bsky.social #CVBirdWalk

Friday, June 13th, from 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM at the scenic Shelby Bottoms Nature Center & Greenway (1900 Davidson St, Nashville, TN 37206). maps.app.goo.gl/Km8oWJzgVQyo...

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · May 23

Something that really stood out to me this ICRA was the diversity of robots in Expo hall. For a while there I’ve been seeing only humanoids and quadrupeds. This year I saw quadrotors, a cool inverted pendulum, espresso making robots, and more. Special thanks to everyone who brought a weird robot!

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Robotics: Science and Systems @roboticsscisys.bsky.social · May 17

📢 Check out the list of accepted papers for Robotics: Science and Systems 2025: roboticsconference.org/program/pape...

📜 You can also find the complete conference program here: roboticsconference.org/program/over...

🌴 We look forward to seeing you at #RSS2025 in Los Angeles June 21st-25th!

Accepted Papers | Robotics: Science and Systems

RSS 2025, June 21, 2025 - June 25, 2025, Los Angeles, California

roboticsconference.org

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · May 16

At ICRA, I'll be chairing Perception for Manipulation 4, and presenting some new work on generative object shape completion and pose estimation from real images. ICRA is always a blast and I'm excited to see what everyone has been working on.

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · May 16

I'll be at #ICRA2025 and #RSS2025 this year 🎉. Send me event/paper/food recommendations!

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · Apr 25

Wrote a bit this morning on my own early reflections on teaching this class - in short, ML evaluation has been a neglected sore spot of the field since its inception & the class opened all of us up to embracing the complexity of this problem!

Excited to see this course evolve in future iterations.

Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · Apr 25

Guest post! @rajiinio.bsky.social reflects on our machine learning evaluation class (and the chaos of co-teaching with me).

To Measure Is to Know

Deb's initial reflections on our machine learning evaluation course.

www.argmin.net

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · Jan 16

I use Scholar Inbox to get really targeted paper recommendations -- I definitely recommend trying it out if you haven't yet!

Andreas Geiger @andreasgeiger.bsky.social · Jan 15

Excited to share that today our paper recommender platform www.scholar-inbox.com has reached 20k users! We hope to reach 100k by the end of the year.. Lots of new features are being worked on currently and rolled out soon.

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · Dec 19

Computer Vision: Fact & Fiction is now available on YouTube 🙌🏼 I made a playlist for it with the seven chapters. Enjoy this time capsule from two decades ago!

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · Nov 30

Thanks for the suggestion and your contribution to the community! What year did you organize?

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · Nov 30

The debaters (Harold Soh, Jeannette Bogh, Nadia Figueroa, Chad Jenkins) did a great job talking strong stances. Watch until the end to hear what they actually personally think. And unsurprisingly, @ken-goldberg.bsky.social was a wonderful moderator!

Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · Nov 30

The "Generative AI will make a lot of traditional robotics approaches obsolete" debate was pretty lively!

Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · Nov 30

Just discovered the recordings of the debates this year at ICRA. As usual, it was a very popular event. It's easily often the highlight of the conference for me, very cool that they're uploaded! I wish an event of this type was held at every conference.

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · Nov 30

I personally tuned in (from a laptop -- the room was very crowded) to the third debate ("Generative AI will make a lot of traditional robotics approaches obsolete.") and highly recommend it!

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · Nov 30

Just discovered the recordings of the debates this year at ICRA. As usual, it was a very popular event. It's easily often the highlight of the conference for me, very cool that they're uploaded! I wish an event of this type was held at every conference.

Robotics Debates

Debates on the Future of Robotics Research Full-Day Hybrid Workshop | May 13th at ICRA 2024 Time: 10:00-16:35 JST | Pacific Convention Plaza Yokohama, Room G411 + Live streaming here!

www.roboticsdebates.org

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · Nov 26

This podcast, about letting a chatbot + voice clone armed with information about you loose in your personal life, was an uncomfortable listen.
radiolab.org/podcast/shel...

Shell Game

One man secretly hands off more and more of his life to an AI voice clone.

radiolab.org

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Daniel Vila @dvilasuero.hf.co · Nov 26

Let's make AI more inclusive.

At @huggingface.bsky.social we'll launch a huge community sprint soon to build high-quality training datasets for many languages.

We're looking for Language Leads to help with outreach.

Find your language and nominate yourself:
forms.gle/iAJVauUQ3FN8...

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · Nov 25

Just a heads up to everyone: @deep-mind.bsky.social is unfortunately a fake account and has been reported. Please do not follow it nor repost anything from it.

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