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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Did we really get GPT-3 moment in robotics before GTA-6?

Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

📝 CFP open: #RSS2026 Workshop on Robot World Models 🌐🤖🐨 Submit 4 page novel work or 1 pages abstract of published work! 📅 Deadline: June 5, 2026 More info: 🔗 robot-worldmodels.github.io/submit.html

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

See you in Sydney and stay tuned for the Call for Paper detailed information! 🇦🇺🤖 P.S. We are grateful for all the help for our organizers:

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

📝 CFP opening soon — 4-page papers and 1-page abstracts. 📅 Submission deadline: June 5, 2026 🙏 We are thankful to our sponsors NVIDIA, New Theory AI and Toyota for supporting this workshop and researchers! 🔗 robot-worldmodels.github.io

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

🎤 Our Invited Speakers: Sherry Yang — WM for high-cost environments Chelsea Finn — controllable WM for manipulation Ming-Yu Liu — Cosmos 3: an OmniModel of text, video & action for Physical AI Danfei Xu — egocentric WM

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Why now? Existing methods break in two ways: 1) Physics engines: faithful, but demand huge manual construction for every new scene. 2) Video-prediction: scale well, but drift when you condition on a robot's actions over long horizons. We need world models that close this gap!

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

🚀 Announcing #RSS2026 workshop: Robot World Models 🌐🤖🐨🌐 July 17, 2026 in 🇦🇺! We're bringing together researchers building the next generation of WM for robots — models robots can act in: controllable, long-horizon & grounded in real dynamics. 🔗 robot-worldmodels.github.io

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Today I swapped the Franka robot in CALVIN for a human arm and regenerated 6 hrs of "human play" data for free (to quickly iterate over a project idea we have). I don't know what I expected but... it's cute lol 😅

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Thank you for the amazing lecture series. I think the above link is broken or points to a private video. This maybe the right link: youtu.be/S-LgYX5qETo

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Robot Learning: Generalization In Planning

YouTube video by Montreal Robotics

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Hyperparameter tuning real-world policy learning by peeking into imagined rollouts inside a world model. Saved us a good few days of iterations. 😅

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

TIL that dog chew toys make great robot manipulation objects. Colourful, sturdy, durable and full of grip! 🙃

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

What type of classifier would you use for this data distribution? 🤔🤷‍♂️

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

In Germany, I'm obviously an Indian. In India, I'm apparently too German.

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The owl owns my soul now. Und ich bereue nichts! 🇩🇪

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gaoyuezhou.bsky.social @gaoyuezhou.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Can we extend the power of world models beyond just online model-based learning? Absolutely! We believe the true potential of world models lies in enabling agents to reason at test time. Introducing DINO-WM: World Models on Pre-trained Visual Features for Zero-shot Planning.

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Other than CALVIN, are there other tabletop robot manipulation sim environments with a pre-recorded play dataset? 🤔

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

My IQ temporarily peaked by +200 points just by being here.

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I am literally the only one using the cluster at the moment. 🫠

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Running deep RL on vectorized PyBullet envs that live and render on GPU. It is still not enough to stop our A40 cluster from sweating so much. Maybe I should take the Brax or the PufferLib route... 🤔

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Pablo Samuel Castro @pcastr.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

i was recently asked to provide 4 "desert island" RL papers. if i were stuck on a desert island i'd hope to have something better to read than #RL papers... but anyway, here's a thread with my choices, maybe you can read them on your flight to @neuripsconf.bsky.social #NeurIPS2024 . Enjoy!

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

My CPU is handling my master's thesis better than I am. Respect! #MBRL

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I just read your last two posts and skimmed through the respective papers (BBF and ReDo), it's around 06:30 where I live and I already feel like I had a productive day. I could just go back to bed with no guilt whatsoever. 😅 Thank you for sharing! ✌🏽

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A physical reasoning agent, trained on millions of problems, that you can test out by coming up with physics puzzles and seeing if it can solve them. It's fun to see if you can stump it: kinetix-env.github.io

kinetix-env.github.io

Investigating large-scale training of RL agents in a vast and diverse space of simulated tasks

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

If robots can't handle a rave, what's even the point of all this? 😅

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I thought the LED inside the oven was a nice touch. I collected hours of play data with it. Should I now be worried about the Amazon seller no more selling the LED? 🥲 #RL #Robotics

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I'm a graduate student working in RL + Robotics. I'd like to be added please. :)

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Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Very new to this platform. I work with robot manipulators everyday at Uni-Freiburg. I would really appreciate you adding me to the group. :)

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