We introduce RotateIt, a system that enables fingertip-based object rota...
Traffic congestion in dense urban centers presents an economical and
env...
Humans make extensive use of vision and touch as complementary senses, w...
Accurately predicting the consequences of agents' actions is a key
prere...
The combination of Reinforcement Learning (RL) with deep learning has le...
The co-adaptation of robot morphology and behaviour becomes increasingly...
Humans build 3D understandings of the world through active object
explor...
The virtuoso plays the piano with passion, poetry and extraordinary tech...
With the increased availability of rich tactile sensors, there is an equ...
Model-based reinforcement learning is a compelling framework for
data-ef...
Model-based Reinforcement Learning (MBRL) is a promising framework for
l...
Accuracy and generalization of dynamics models is key to the success of
...
Accurately predicting the dynamics of robotic systems is crucial for
mod...
Simulators perform an important role in prototyping, debugging and
bench...
Hierarchical learning has been successful at learning generalizable
loco...
Deep learning approaches have recently shown great promise in accelerati...
When a toddler is presented a new toy, their instinctual behaviour is to...
We study how representation learning can accelerate reinforcement learni...
Dynamic tasks like table tennis are relatively easy to learn for humans ...
Despite decades of research, general purpose in-hand manipulation remain...
In this paper we introduce plan2vec, an unsupervised representation lear...
Transporting suspended payloads is challenging for autonomous aerial veh...
Continual learning aims to learn new tasks without forgetting previously...
Incorporating touch as a sensing modality for robots can enable finer an...
Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) has been shown to be a powerfu...
Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular approach to optimize
expensive-t...
Humans and animals are capable of quickly learning new behaviours to sol...
Learning to locomote to arbitrary goals on hardware remains a challengin...
Robot design is often a slow and difficult process requiring the iterati...
High-speed and high-acceleration movements are inherently hard to contro...
Touch sensing is widely acknowledged to be important for dexterous robot...
Much of the literature on robotic perception focuses on the visual modal...
To use neural networks in safety-critical settings it is paramount to pr...
Generating low-level robot controllers often requires manual parameters
...
Model-based reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can attain excellent
...
For humans, the process of grasping an object relies heavily on rich tac...
The design of gaits for robot locomotion can be a daunting process which...
A successful grasp requires careful balancing of the contact forces. Ded...
Reinforcement Learning is divided in two main paradigms: model-free and
...
Off-the-shelf Gaussian Process (GP) covariance functions encode smoothne...