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Andrew Davison

@ajdavison.bsky.social

From SLAM to Spatial AI; Professor of Robot Vision, Imperial College London; Director of the Dyson Robotics Lab; Co-Founder of Slamcore. FREng, FRS.

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My first computer programming was Dragon 32 Basic, back in about 1982!

01.02.2026 18:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What a nice morning to find that Alzugaray, Taher @marwantaher.bsky.social , Davison @ajdavison.bsky.social have turned ACE into a SLAM system. Since we did ACE, I was wondering whether it was possible, and I always thought who if not those folks can pull it off. 🙂

ACESLAM: arxiv.org/abs/2512.14032

17.12.2025 08:27 — 👍 29    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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good morning

30.07.2025 13:16 — 👍 1372    🔁 367    💬 22    📌 90

For those watching in black and white, the blue is behind the brown...

23.07.2025 08:43 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I've been a Tamiya RC fan since owning and loving a Grasshopper in the 80s, and more recently built one or their RC kits with each of my kids (Hornet, LunchBox and Midnight Pumpkin!)

22.07.2025 13:44 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Live Demo of MASt3R-SLAM this afternoon in the demo session at #CVPR2025.

13.06.2025 18:22 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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.

Full draft of the SLAM Handbook now released --- available as a free PDF, with a printed version coming soon. Now including Part 3, "From SLAM to Spatial AI" (I knew it would catch on eventually), with contributions from @hidematsu82.bsky.social and me.
#SpatialAI

github.com/SLAM-Handboo...

16.05.2025 14:24 — 👍 23    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

Great diagram.

30.04.2025 21:53 — 👍 117    🔁 19    💬 4    📌 1
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It's 3PM. Exactly 40 years ago the first ARM processor was powered up. It worked. To mark the occasion, a bottle of champagne was opened and the time and date was written on the bottle - by Sophie Wilson IIRC. I hope today another bottle is opened to celebrate the anniversary.

26.04.2025 14:01 — 👍 104    🔁 26    💬 5    📌 0

Great look at back at 2D scrolling methods in games.

09.04.2025 15:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Slow motion Galton Board.
Love that Gaussian!

05.04.2025 17:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We were fortunate to have Jianyuan visit us at Imperial yesterday, and he gave a brilliant and thoughtful talk about 3D geometry and learning. Maybe every 6--12 months or so there is a paper in my area which really seems like something new and important, and VGGT is one of those!

02.04.2025 16:48 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Should be good!

24.03.2025 17:09 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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FutureMapping: The Computational Structure of Spatial AI Systems We discuss and predict the evolution of Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) into a general geometric and semantic `Spatial AI' perception capability for intelligent embodied devices. A big ga...

Remember: the route to Spatial AI is through SLAM. Key research topics are representations for real-time fusion of measurements and priors into persistent semantic/metric scene models; and algorithm/hardware co-design for 1000X efficiency. #SpatialAI
arxiv.org/abs/1803.11288

20.03.2025 01:06 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

On the tram station video, VGGT fails entirely, whereas MASt3R-SLAM had done a more reasonable (albeit also not stellar) job.

bsky.app/profile/chri...

16.03.2025 17:44 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT) predicts cameras, point maps, depth maps, and point tracks for up to hundreds of images in less than a second on a H100 GPU.

github.com/facebookrese...

16.03.2025 17:44 — 👍 75    🔁 7    💬 5    📌 0
Washington's Dream - SNL
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youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk?...

11.03.2025 23:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

200 hours of play in I am still addicted to Balatro!

11.03.2025 12:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cool to see this.

05.03.2025 18:42 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bracket City come visit bracket city

If you like word puzzles, Bracket City is really cool:
bracket.city
The clues are cleverly nested in a way that looks like Lisp code!

(Via the @recomendo.bsky.social weekly newsletter.)

02.03.2025 20:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Many interesting tests of MASt3R-SLAM on prerecorded videos.

01.03.2025 01:12 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Introducing Aria Gen 2: Unlocking New Research in Machine Perception, Contextual AI, Robotics, and More Today, we're excited to announce the next step in the Project Aria journey: the introduction of Aria Gen 2 research glasses.

Aria Gen 2 is very impressive, with fully onboard SLAM and various other perception all within a 75g device with an hours-long battery life. Processing on custom silicon. Congrats to the Reality Labs team.

28.02.2025 17:10 — 👍 23    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

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27.02.2025 15:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Shawshank Prison reconstructed with MASt3R-SLAM... from one of the best films ever.

25.02.2025 22:33 — 👍 24    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1

I remember seeing this drone video a few years ago and thinking "we'll never run SLAM on that".... but here it is, complete with dense reconstruction (single camera, unknown calibration, no IMU). MASt3R-SLAM is absurdly robust.

25.02.2025 20:37 — 👍 34    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

Open source code now available MASt3R-SLAM: the best dense visual SLAM system I've ever seen. Real-time and monocular, and easy to run with a live camera or on videos without needing to know the camera calibration. Brilliant work from Eric and Riku.

25.02.2025 17:34 — 👍 31    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Wow I'd like to try to understand this.
Something for @tinytapeout.com ?

11.02.2025 09:47 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looks like a great workshop, happening in Malaga this July.

10.02.2025 16:14 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gradually unfollowing all of the namesakes I picked up from that automatic X to Bluesky converter tool!

10.02.2025 11:14 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0