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Tucker Hermans

@thermans.bsky.social
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Professor of Computing, I do research on robotics and AI. I also ski. robot-learning.cs.utah.edu/thermans

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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Excited to publicly share the news that our NSF Science and Technology Center on Co-Adaptive Robots, led by Joydeep Biswas at UT has been funded! www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-lau...
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NSF launches three new Science and Technology Centers with $90M investment in transformative research
The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $90 million over five years to support three new NSF Science and Technology Centers (NSF STC). These centers will advance American leadership in…
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
We call the label maker in our lab the 1D printer.
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Bahnwärter Thiel but the stepmom is an LLM.
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I've used conda/mamba for years but my coding agent always asks about trying virtual environment, is our relationship doomed?
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Getting this coding agent to simplify some code just now really felt like bullying.
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
More of this, please. www.propublica.org?p=64422
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“A Fraudulent Scheme”: New Mexico Sues Texas Oil Companies for Walking Away From Their Leaking Wells
New Mexico’s lawsuit accuses three Texas oil executives of pocketing revenue from oil and gas wells and offloading cleanup costs to the public. An investigation in 2024 by ProPublica and Capital & Mai...
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Why have an "Answer now" button if literally every time I click it an error is thrown?
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
We are hiring in AI and NLP at Utah! Please apply if interested and share with folks you know are looking for faculty positions, especially if they like to ski, hike, climb, or bike! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/190...
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Assistant Professor for The Kahlert School of Computing
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Ben Jones @drbenjones.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Come be my colleague! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/188... . Our school (we're bigger than a department) is an awesome place to work. Our faculty are excellent across the board. Pay and benefits are good. SLC is a nice place to live. Happy to answer any questions
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Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Computing
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Our cuTAMP code is now available: github.com/NVlabs/cuTAMP
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GitHub - NVlabs/cuTAMP: cuTAMP: Differentiable GPU-Parallelized Task and Motion Planning
cuTAMP: Differentiable GPU-Parallelized Task and Motion Planning - NVlabs/cuTAMP
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Hope to see many friends here! We'll be presenting cuTAMP: cutamp.github.io
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Differentiable GPU-Parallelized Task and Motion Planning
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
A few folks at ICRA last week were asking about the details of my probabilistic deep learning course so I through together a public syllabus for it: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Probabilistic Deep Learning - Public Overview - Tucker Hermans - Kahlert School of Computing; University of Utah
Probabilistic Deep Learning This class covers probabilistic approaches to deep learning. These include model calibration, mixture density networks, (approximate) Bayesian neural networks, variational ...
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Got an email from NSF that my REU supplement won't be funded but I first read it as my entire RI Large was cancelled. 😅
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This is great and the kind of close reading analysis I think a VLM is far from being able to produce anytime soon.
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I just watched Arrival (one of my favorites) on my flight back from the NVIDIA Research Onsite and I feel inspired to create a heptapod VLA.
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
There's nothing like running an MCMC algorithm to remind you that computers can do a lot more than just run web browsers and PowerPoint.
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Currently writing an active learning (pedagogy) exercise about active learning (ML concept)
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Saw a flyer for this on campus today! @standupforscience.bsky.social
A poster for Stand Up for Science Utah 2025. March 7, 2025 Utah State Capitol 12pm. Science is for everyone.
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Just got word from a colleague that he's been fired from NSF. It sounds like all at-will and probationary employees were let go, repeating what happened at NIH last week.
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Norman's work influenced my thinking about affordnaces for robot learning in my dissertation. I'm excited for this!
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
So nice to see an organization I’m a member of, AAUP, actually doing something to fight back against the attack on science! ✊
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
NSF is still freezing grant payments because of Trump's executive orders targeting DEI, despite NSF's congressional mandate to weigh how grants will expand participation in science. What that means for scientists/science (with more detail than yesterday's radio story) www.npr.org/2025/01/31/n...
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National Science Foundation freezes payments in response to Trump's executive actions
The National Science Foundation's funding freeze, and wider confusion about the status and future of science funding, is already hampering research.
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I just now got an official email from NSF about the freezing of new and existing grants, the relevant highlight: "Therefore, all review panels, new awards, and all payments of funds under open awards will be paused as the agency conducts the required reviews and analysis."
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Our paper Points2Plans was accepted to ICRA. Dope. sites.google.com/stanford.edu...
The tidybot robot puts several items in a basket away in a drawer.
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
When I posted about my class I thought I'd give a thought about class each day, that's too much for me right now. Instead I'll say we are covering ensembles this week and it's been fun!
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Tucker Hermans @thermans.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I'm teaching a new class this semester called "Probabilistic Deep Learning." I've organized the topics roughly around different probabilistic neural network tools we've used in my group. I'm very excited to be teaching a class that doesn't require students to install simulators or use robots!
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