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Markus Wulfmeier

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Large-Scale Robot Decision Making @GoogleDeepMind European @ELLISforEurope - imitation interaction transfer - priors: @oxfordrobots @berkeley_ai @ETH @MIT

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Please don't use AI to answer questions when applying with us. It actually decreases chances of your application moving forward!
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In robotics/AI and need a change of perspective? We're hiring at @ Nomagic !
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
We're #hiring strong RS and RE (among others)! @ Nomagic Want to work on getting VLA and other models to eat their harness? Excited about production rather than prototypes? Curious about modular robot embodiments and tool use? And convinced that more than 2 arms is possible? ...
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We benchmarked the strongest generalist VLMs on a simple but relevant perception task: verifying warehouse orders. They're genuinely impressive but still ~8x above the false-alert rate production can tolerate.
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Thank you to every team that applied for @SPRIND's Next Frontier AI, not just the ones moving forward. Many familiar faces and two days of pitches did more to revive my hope for European AI than any strategy paper. The ambition is clear. I truly enjoyed this! 👏 x.com/i/status/207...
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SPRIND, Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (@SPRIND) on X
Ten teams. Five countries. Up to €26.5M each in equity-free funding to build frontier AI labs for Europe. The Next Frontier AI Stage 1 teams are here. Physical AI, world models, continual learning and...
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Thrilled to see our argument for inclusion of AI in peer review as oral (~1%) in the position track #ICML2026! AI has crucial potential to accelerate scientific progress, but the exist. process is already overwhelmed. AI scales not only insights but papers (inc fluff). lnkd.in/da2E_tWY
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Research roles for Zürich/Warsaw @ #Nomagic are open now! First round - More to come soon! #robotics #foundationmodels #VLA nomagic.ai/careers/#ope...
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Review request: As usual for the time of year, I'll be looking for #IROS2026 reviewers. Highly interesting stack of papers on #ReinforcementLearning #Sim2Real #RewardLearning #LLMs #DataEfficiency #RoboticManipulation Reach out with your ID or papercept registered mail address and background.
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Robotiq directly integrating touch, robustly and reliably (hopefully 😉), is a big deal. looking forward to playing with these. Now reannotating old teleop data might be unfeasible, but RL... 🚀 www.linkedin.com/posts/vision...
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Nice perspective from Lu Li, Tianwei Ni, Yihao Sun, and Pierre-Luc Bacon on different conditions for offline-to-online learning. lnkd.in/dUKc4jyV We have been heavily relying on replay across experiments (lnkd.in/duVpCUru). Few experiments get started these days without initial datasets available.
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Distributional RL has been the foundation of our recent projects (e.g. lnkd.in/eYiCp-y8). Nice to see a distributional perspective to improvement for LLMs. Amin Rakhsha,Kanika Madan,Tianyu Zhang, Amir Farahmand, and Amir Khasahmadi via mode estimation rather than best of N for LLM: lnkd.in/d4NpyegJ
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Curriculum matters more for active data generation than for fixed datasets. Data defines what you can learn and RL curriculum enables finding different datasets. Great to see our paper mentioned in @dwarkesh_sp’s blog post on RL efficiency. dwarkesh.com/p/bits-per-sam… arxiv.org/pdf/1707.05300
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Didn't spend much time here and just had a look back: since when is most posting on bsky so aggressive and vile? And why? How can this get worse than x?
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
While the human form is brilliant, it’s ultimately limited. The real future of robotics lies in the permission to move beyond our own biological constraints and optimize. Note, we didn't achieve supersonic flight by mimicking the flapping of wings.
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Taking parental leave for some deeply needed reading and it's fascinating to see the walls between SFT and RL crumbling. 🧵
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Join our NeurIPS social event: The Role of AI in Scientific Peer Review. lnkd.in/dgdBiBqM Help build community and explore solutions for a fair, efficient, and transparent peer review system.           Wed. Dec. 3rd, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Upper Level Ballroom 6CDEF)
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Progress on robotics and AI has never been more closely linked. Access to leading frontier models has the potential to define what's possible in the physical world. I'll be at #NeurIPS2025 for a couple of days next week. Find me if you want to know more. x.com/sundarpichai...
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I'll be at #NeurIPS2025 next week! Looking forward to catching up with old and new friends - on AI for robots, Gemini Robotics, the RLnaissance in AI, and bad puns. Bon appetit!
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Truly enjoyed discussing the consolidation of specialist and generalist approaches to physical AI at #IROS2025. Hoping to visit Hangzhou in physical rather than digital form myself in the not too distant future - second IROS AC dinner missed in a row. #Robotics #physicalAI
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The explosion of AI capability and complexity demands better understanding. I firmly believe in studying large model behavior - from the perspective of artificial sequential decision making (like Inverse RL) to now linking it with human decision-making and cognitive models. bit.ly/3Wqrtxl
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Using Cognitive Models to Reveal Value Trade-offs in Language Models - Kempner Institute
People’s actions and words are the result of a balance of different goals. The authors use a leading cognitive model of this value trade-off in polite speech to systematically examine […]
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
'Papa, was ist das?' As a parent, Gemini has made my life massively easier. We found this caterpillar earlier and the answer is in fact correct (verification is much easier than generation thanks to classical Google search) Very curious about how LLMs are continuing to change the ways we learn!
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
The position paper track at #NeurIPS2025 was a great idea, the acceptance rate of under 6% not so much! This is unnecessarily low and will reduce interest in any future iterations of the track. (Disclaimer: our team is part of the 94%) @NeurIPSConf
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
If you want one brain for any robot, cross-embodiment learning is the key. Check out the new model and tech report for sparks of it share.google/H5RBiwtCWnW7... And catch up with the team (unfortunately without me this year) at #CORL2025! More here: x.com/sundarpichai...
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Control problems are everywhere, but some applications of Reinforcement Learning are truly out of this world! 🌌 Our team's latest research @ Google DeepMind in #Science shows RL can improve sensitivity by 30-100x. See how RL can accelerate cosmic discovery!👇 (Image #nanobanana) lnkd.in/e8r7t3NJ
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
#Robotics is hard, and so is #AutonomousDriving! Massive congratulations to my friends at #Waymo for proving me wrong! x.com/Waymo/status... There was a time a couple years back when I was getting skeptical about the scale of both technological and societal challenges for scaling autonomy....
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Waymo on X: "100 million real world, fully autonomous miles driven on public roads. That’s more than 200 trips to the Moon and back. Thank you riders. https://t.co/2EcE4Oqxnu" / X
100 million real world, fully autonomous miles driven on public roads. That’s more than 200 trips to the Moon and back. Thank you riders. https://t.co/2EcE4Oqxnu
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Large language and vision models alone don't solve the whole #robotics problem. But they surely have a massive impact on generalisation and robustness! New scenes, new backgrounds, new objects, new people, new language and audio.... x.com/ayzwah/statu...
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Ayzaan Wahid on X: "We took a robot to RSS in LA running our new Gemini Robotics On-Device VLA model. People interacted with the model with new objects and instructions in a brand new environment and the results were amazing! https://t.co/0qZiGK2h0g" / X
We took a robot to RSS in LA running our new Gemini Robotics On-Device VLA model. People interacted with the model with new objects and instructions in a brand new environment and the results were amazing! https://t.co/0qZiGK2h0g
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Don't have a robot? Try our newest Gemini Robotics on-Device VLA in simulation! Or become a trusted tester and tune and adapt the model yourself! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVMY...
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Gemini Robotics on-device in simulation
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Thrilled to share something new: Fast, robust, and increasingly intelligent 🧠 🤖 Truly proud of our team and hoping you'll enjoy the model! x.com/GoogleDeepMi...
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Google DeepMind on X: "We’re bringing powerful AI directly onto robots with Gemini Robotics On-Device. 🤖 It’s our first vision-language-action model to help make robots faster, highly efficient, and adaptable to new tasks and environments - without needing a constant internet connection. 🧵 https://t.co/1Y21D3cF5t" / X
We’re bringing powerful AI directly onto robots with Gemini Robotics On-Device. 🤖 It’s our first vision-language-action model to help make robots faster, highly efficient, and adaptable to new tasks and environments - without needing a constant internet connection. 🧵 https://t.co/1Y21D3cF5t
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The hardest problem with RL for robots is not RL!
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Are there any great summary posts from @huggingface 's #LeRobot hackathon? What works, what doesn't, how many robots broken ...? 🤖
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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Ever thought of joining DeepMind's RL team? We're recruiting for a research engineering role in London: job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job... Please spread the word!
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Research Engineer, Reinforcement Learning
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Looking forward to talking about how much multiagentness do we need for multiagent RL for #robot soccer and other real world applications! In half an hour at the #Robolethics workshop #ICRA2025 @GoogleDeepMind
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
If you blink, you've missed it! Demis Hassabis showing a glance into the future of robotics and vision language action models! #GoogleDeepMind #GoogleIO #robotics
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Looking forward to #ICRA2025 ! Find me (remotely) during the workshops and catch up on large-scale RL, IL, and multi agent learning with a side of vision language action models!
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Agentic LLMs need to explore! The web is a non-stationary, highly partially unobservable 🏔️. Thomas #GoogleDeepMind internship systematically investigates current challenges and the role of scale, RL, and chain-of-thought reasoning to overcome them. arxiv.org/abs/2504.16078
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Visiting #ICLR2025? Join for the 7th iteration of the #RobotLearning workshop 🤖🧠 (rather than the usual at NeurIPS)! Rather than human-like form, how far are we from human-level abilities? Join the fun in person (while I will be cheering the team from London)! www.robot-learning.ml/2025/
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7th Robot Learning Workshop: Towards Robots with Human-Level Abilities
@ICLR 2025 27 April Singapore EXPO Garnet 216 & 217
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
As data becomes more valuable than compute, being able to invest compute to extract more information from the same amount of data is invaluable! youtu.be/6nJZopACRuQ?... Apprenticeship learning, inverse RL, ... are becoming really interesting again! proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/...
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Pre-Training GPT-4.5
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Deadline May 15th! The Google #PhDFellowship applications are open! Many fantastic friends are mentoring this year. Check out research areas and details here research.google/programs-and...
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Google PhD fellowship program
The Google PhD Fellowship Program recognizes outstanding graduate students doing exceptional work in computer science, related disciplines, or promising research areas.
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Needing #selfdriving, #reinforcementlearning, and #llm reviewers for #IROS2025 ! Please reach out.
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Jakob Foerster @jfoerst.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
My group @FLAIR_Ox is recruiting a postdoc and looking for someone who can get started by the end of April. Deadline to apply is in one week (!), 19th of March at noon, so please help spread the word: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
#IROS2025 reviews are coming up! Please let me know if you're interested in reviewing. Thorough and constructive reviews are a backbone for scientific progress, please reach out! #robotics #robotlearning #reinforcementlearning #transferlearning #imitationlearning
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
'Gemini, meet robot. Robot, meet Gemini. You're going to have a lot of fun together. ' Truly impressive work led by our friends and colleagues at @GoogleDeepMind Robotics! Check out how far we get with just little data! www.linkedin.com/posts/google...
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Google DeepMind on LinkedIn: Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world
Meet Gemini Robotics: our latest AI models designed for a new generation of helpful robots. 🤖 ⚡ Gemini Robotics is our most advanced vision-language-action…
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Thank you Amanda Prorok for the invitation. it was a pleasure to discuss the degree 'multi-agent ness' across our applications in language, robotics, and navigation @GoogleDeepMind! Looking forward to many further fruitful conversations. www.linkedin.com/posts/prorok...
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#artificialintelligence #multiagentsystems #reinforcementlearning… | Prorok Lab
🚀 What an inspiring session! 🚀 A huge thank you to Markus Wulfmeier from Google DeepMind for delivering an outstanding lecture 'Learning to Interact in…
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
'" Eventually, they say, robots imbued with A.I. will learn from trial and error in the real world, as humans and animals do. “Learning to control a body through reinforcement learning — that is a very natural thing,” Dr. Barto said."'
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Turing Award Goes to A.I. Pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
#ReinforcementLearning (Barto&Sutton) wins the Turing! Wonderful recognition for two personal heroes of mine as well as for the whole field! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/t...
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Turing Award Goes to A.I. Pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Two reasons why we're moving towards shared/augmented intelligence. 1. It is much easier. 2. It is actually what we want. 👇
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The best AND worst thing about teleoperating robots (and BC): it (approx) linearly scales ability with investment.
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Super exciting to have Sam holt's #GoogleDeepMind internship setup accessible to everyone!
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
What are good, concise overviews for writing faculty reference letters? First time I'm writing one and it's surprisingly hard to do a good job (and this one deserves to be good). #referenceletter #faculty #computerscience #academictwitter
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
As always a wonderful visit @NeurIPSConf! Thanks to old and new friends for making this conference so special! Missing the workshop to spend more time with family. So please share any exciting talks and papers on RL, IL, IRL on language and action modeling! It's a wrap #NeurIPS2024
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