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Michael Burke

@mgb45.bsky.social
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Roboticist at Monash University, Melbourne.

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Michael Burke @mgb45.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I think we must decide if it is a preprint server or publication. I get the aim to preserve signal to noise ratio and facilitate discovery, but think this will naturally emerge as the noise floor increases. Either via credentialism/names/institutions we filter by, or increasing depth in niche areas.
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Michael Burke @mgb45.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Thanks, trying to find the most sensible route to update my workflow while maintaining style compatibility with old lecture videos I do not want to rerecord.
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Michael Burke @mgb45.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Are you going via beamer or direct to slides? Notebook lm did an amazing job on one of mine, but not editable.
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Michael Burke @mgb45.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Our ARC DP on Skillphabets for robot tool use was funded! We will have two PhD positions open on this grant (dextrous manipulation with reusable skills, human-robot information asymmetry) and a postdoc (learning skill decomposition from demonstrations). Drop me a message if you are interested.
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Luca Carlone @lucacarlone.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Here is the recording of the Robotics Worldwide Workshop, held at MIT on April 4, 2025: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OdO... - includes "All Robotics in 90 minutes" lightning talks and a panel discussion on the future of robotics. not for the faint of heart. #mitSparkLab @mitofficial.bsky.social
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Igor Gilitschenski @igilitschenski.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Ending the #RSS AC meeting on a high note with @mgb45.bsky.social, Rudolf Lioutikov, Jana Tumova, and Abhinav Valada. Can’t wait to see all of you again soon!
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Michael Burke @mgb45.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This was a lot of fun! Livestream seems to now be a recording of you want to watch.
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Luca Carlone @lucacarlone.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I'm very excited to host the Robotics Worldwide Workshop at MIT with Amanda Prorok next week! We have an incredible lineup of roboticists from around the world who will join us for lightning talks, a panel discussion, and a poster session. Join us if you are in the area!
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Michael Burke @mgb45.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This is great!
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 11/12/2024
Here's how I used up all my Sora credits. First, my number one most impossible video model benchmark, "person blowing out a candle"
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
3 days of keynotes, 10-min paper talks, and 1-min spotlights on the latest research, all free and open to anyone interested! Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) talks are now online: youtube.com/watch?v=0joZwi… #Robotics #DeepLearning #CoRL2024
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Michael Burke @mgb45.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I often think of this in the same way as the bitter lesson. If we ignore morphology as a solution parameter, are we just self indulgently toying with puppets while waiting for hardware engineers to put the work in.
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Michael Burke @mgb45.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
My favourite control textbook is Seborgs process control and dynamics - I feel like those chem eng examples just make everything so much easier to follow.
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Brandon Rohrer @brandonrohrer.com · 23/11/2024
Adding my love letter to arxiv.org/pdf/2304.01315 Empirical Design in Reinforcement Learning by Andrew Patterson, Samuel Neumann, Martha White, Adam White JMLR 25 (2024) 1-63 #ReinforcementLearning These aren’t the heroes we deserve, but they are the heroes we need.
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Joe James @tallcuppajoe.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
You can use this feed to get only mentions bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Michael Burke @mgb45.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The case of the missing teaspoons doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
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Michael Burke @mgb45.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
This also means inequity in reviewing, papers that look good are reviewed by more stringent experienced reviewers, while run of the mill papers go the way of grad students, who tend to give noncommittal reviews for fear of making wrong decisions -> ave conf score of 5, endless revise& resubmit.
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Michael Burke @mgb45.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The problem is that it is almost impossible to get a tenured academic to agree to review anything right now. The last paper I handled for RA-L needed 35 requests before securing 3 experienced reviewers. You can maybe get a new assistant prof. or postdoc, but grad students are still the most willing.
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Michael Burke @mgb45.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Challenge accepted! Our incredible undergrads have just released a new open quadruped for you to make at home. youtu.be/vo-NXgQ52jU?... github.com/MonashRoboti...
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Check out Cian's FYP, The Kelpie! 🐾🤖
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The Onion should buy Elsevier next
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Miguel Alonso Jr. @miguelalonsojr.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
This is great!
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Michael Burke @mgb45.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Thanks for getting this started!
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Michael Burke @mgb45.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Looking for an exciting industry collaboration postdoc in intelligent robotics for pharmaceutical applications? Come join us if you're keen to explore human-in-the-loop simulation and digital twins! lnkd.in/gBXFr4Hn
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