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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

If you’re at ICRA, I’ll be giving at talk at the VLA Pipelines workshop tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 (and on the panel in the morning). Will be chatting about VLA Foundry among other things! tri-ml.github.io/vla_foundry/ icra2026vlapipeline.github.io

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

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!

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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 · 19/08/2025

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!

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

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

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Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

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 · 01/08/2025

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 · 01/08/2025

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 · 01/08/2025

🚀 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.

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Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds

Join the Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds workshop.

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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

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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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 · 23/05/2025

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 · 17/05/2025

📢 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!

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Accepted Papers | Robotics: Science and Systems

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

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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 · 16/05/2025

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

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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.

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 19/12/2024

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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Computer Vision: Fact & Fiction - YouTube

Title Computer Vision: Fact and Fiction Year of Publication 2005 Author(s) Marília Maschion Vincent Rabaud Serge Belongie URL https://vision.ucsd.edu/publica...

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

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

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

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!

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

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 · 30/11/2024

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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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!

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

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...

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Shell Game

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

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Daniel Vila @dvilasuero.hf.co · 26/11/2024

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 · 25/11/2024

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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Lerrel Pinto @lerrelpinto.com · 25/11/2024

Wonderful blog post by Matt Mason: mtmason.com/the-beetle-r... Quote from it: “... When humans have to handle things not designed for their hands, it’s all tools! Look at their dentists and surgeons. Look at their watchmakers. ...”

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The Beetle Roboticists: A Parable - Matthew T. Mason

How do we assess ideas about humanoids, without our anthropocentric bias? Maybe if the ideas were being pushed by another species. Beetles?

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Lots of protein-related answers in this thread right now! I’m an outsider to the field — do the new diffusion-based methods represent a step change in performance, or is it more incremental?

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I hadn’t read any weather prediction ones yet — thank you for the link!

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Frank Dellaert @fdellaert.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

We are in the process of editing a SLAM handbook, to be published by Cambridge University Press, with many *stellar* contributors. Part 1 is available as an online draft for public comments. Help us find bugs/problems! Link to release repo is here: lnkd.in/gZhTkaxb

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GitHub - SLAM-Handbook-contributors/slam-handbook-public-release: Release repo for our SLAM Handbook

Release repo for our SLAM Handbook. Contribute to SLAM-Handbook-contributors/slam-handbook-public-release development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Conditioning via reachability is really interesting! Adding to my to read pile.

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

(By which I also simultaneously mean please keep it coming 😂)

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I really like this direction, no propaganda necessary!

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

My colleagues at TRI also just won an Outstanding Paper Award at CoRL for their work on diffusing physical parameters for control. Drifting Supras are close to peak cool. One Model to Drift Them All: openreview.net/pdf?id=0gDba...

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Here are a couple I’ve been involved with/seen: We presented work this year at IROS showing that you can do pose estimation by diffusing NOCS maps, naturally handling difficult practical problems like symmetry. woven-planet.github.io/DiffusionNOCS/ (led by Taku and Sergey, who are not here yet)

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

What cool applications of diffusion have folks seen outside of the popular ones like text-to-image, image-to-3D, Diffusion Policy, etc?

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/11/2024

MIT announced that it would eliminate tuition costs next fall for all undergraduate students whose families earn less than $200,000 per year — following a national movement to try to make higher education more accessible.

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M.I.T. to Offer Free Tuition to Families Earning Less Than $200,000

For students whose families earn less than $100,000 per year, the school will also other costs, including housing, dining, fees and an allowance for books and personal expenses.

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The name of the list is obviously still aspirational as I wait for ICRA/CoRL/RSS/etc 👀

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I created a List to keep track of conferences in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Robotics:

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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

NeurIPS Conference is now Live on Bluesky! -NeurIPS2024 Communication Chairs

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

@cpaxton.bsky.social manages the Robotics and AI one! You can see who created each list if you click on them; I think it’s also usually the first person on the list.

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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Full CoRL conference recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0joZ... Someone remind me to watch this later

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CoRL 2024 Day 1 9:00-10:30

YouTube video by Conference on Robot Learning

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Katherine Liu @katherineliu.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

And finally, a call to action: Please share your robots! (Ratings optional)

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