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Michael Burke

@mgb45.bsky.social

Roboticist at Monash University, Melbourne.

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MIT Robotics - Robotics Worldwide Workshop
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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

27.04.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!

06.04.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This was a lot of fun! Livestream seems to now be a recording of you want to watch.

05.04.2025 12:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!

28.03.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is great!

25.02.2025 06:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here's how I used up all my Sora credits.

First, my number one most impossible video model benchmark, "person blowing out a candle"

11.12.2024 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 189    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 54
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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

26.11.2024 04:13 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

26.11.2024 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

25.11.2024 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

23.11.2024 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 211    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 6

You can use this feed to get only mentions bsky.app/profile/did:...

19.11.2024 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6

The case of the missing teaspoons doi.org/10.1136/bmj....

17.11.2024 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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.

16.11.2024 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

16.11.2024 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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...

15.11.2024 04:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

14.11.2024 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5433    πŸ” 1607    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 84

This is great!

12.11.2024 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for getting this started!

11.11.2024 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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11.10.2024 07:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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