pyribs: Accelerating Quality Diversity Research
Quality Diversity algorithms identify many diverse solutions to solve problems rather than a single best option. Researchers developed pyribs to facilitate development of research projects that use...
View ArticleUSC to Host “Robotics: Science and Systems” (RSS) 2025
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference will be held at USC between June 22 and June 24, 2025. Five RASC faculty will serve as local arrangement chairs.
View ArticleUSC at the International Conferences on Machine Learning (ICML)
This year, USC researchers will showcase 20 papers at the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), one of the most prestigious machine learning conferences, taking place July 21 –...
View ArticleLLMs can help robots learn new tasks in unfamiliar places
Large language models can help our robots adapt to new tasks and situations by enabling better pre-training and by guiding them in unfamiliar settings.
View ArticleUSC RASC launches a Robotics Blog
As a step towards disseminating the robotıcs research taking place at USC to a broader audience, we are launching the Robotics Blog.
View ArticleLanguage Models meet Classical Planners to make smarter Robot Task Plans
By Ishika Singh Everyday household tasks require both common sense understanding of the world and situated knowledge about the current environment. To create a task plan for “Make dinner” an agent...
View ArticleUSC Researchers Tapping into Surfing to Relieve Chronic Pain
Heather Culbertson and Jason Kutch were interviewed about their project using simulated surfing to address chronic pain.
View ArticleMassRobotics Announces Recipient of 2024 Robotics Medal Recognizing...
Heather Culbertson received the Rising Star in Robotics Medal for her research on haptics.
View ArticleViSaRL: Saliency-Guided Visual Representations for Robot Learning
By Anthony Liang Teaching robots to perform complex control tasks from high-dimensional image inputs is a nontrivial problem. State-of-the-art methods require hundreds of manually collected expert...
View ArticleProtected: VoxAct-B: Voxel-Based Acting and Stabilizing Policy for Bimanual...
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
View Article