Shivam Vats

Is "scaling is all you need" the right path for robotics? Announcing our @corl_conf workshop on "Resource-Rational Robot Learning", where we will explore how to build efficient intelligent systems that learn & thrive under real-world constraints. Submission deadline: Aug 8 🧵

Intelligence isn't a collection of skills. It's the efficiency with which you acquire and deploy new skills. It's an efficiency ratio. And that's why benchmark scores can be very misleading about the actual intelligence of AI systems.

Announcing our EXAIT@ICML workshop paper: CURATE! Have a difficult target task distribution with sparse rewards that you want to train an RL agent to complete? 🤔 We tackle this problem using our curriculum learning algorithm, CURATE. 🎓 Link: openreview.net/forum?id=mAeQu… 1/6

Announcing #GenPriors — the #CoRL2025 workshop on Generalizable Priors for Robot Manipulation! 📍 Seoul, Korea  📅Sat 27  Sep  2025. The workshop focuses on building generalist robot policies that work across a wide variety of environments. 🔗 corl25-genpriors.github.io

At a robotics lab in Pittsburgh, engineers are building adaptable, AI-powered robots that could one day work where it's too dangerous for humans. The research drew a visit from President Trump, who touted U.S. dominance in AI as companies announced $90 billion in new investments.

Looking forward to the workshop!

Thrilled to join @virginia_tech as an assistant professor in @VirginiaTech_ME this fall! At the TEA lab (tealab.ai), we’ll explore hybrid AI systems for efficient and adaptive agents and robots 🤖 Thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way!

And we won the #RSS 2025 Best Paper Award! Congrats @rkjenamani and the entire @EmpriseLab team @CornellCIS 🎉🎉

Thrilled to be in LA for #RSS2025!⚡️ Catch us at the main conference + workshops: 🎤 Main Conf (Mon 9AM): 📄 COIL: Cost-Optimal Interactive Learning 🛠️ Workshops: 📄 Sat (R3): RecoveryChaining 📄 Wed (Gen-HRI): Diffusion-Guided Packing 📄 Wed (OOD): Residual RL Come say hi 👋

Most assistive robots live in labs. We want to change that. FEAST enables care recipients to personalize mealtime assistance in-the-wild, with minimal researcher intervention across diverse in-home scenarios. 🏆 Outstanding Paper & Systems Paper Finalist @RoboticsSciSys 🧵1/8

Tactile sensing is gaining traction, but slowly. Why? Because integration remains difficult. But what if adding touch sensors to your robot was as easy as hitting “print”? Introducing eFlesh: a 3D-printable, customizable tactile sensor. Shape it. Size it. Print it. 🧶👇

⛵️ Excited to share 𝚂𝙰𝙸𝙻𝙾𝚁: a method for *learning to search* with learned world + reward models to plan in the latent space at test-time. Unlike behavior cloning, 𝚂𝙰𝙸𝙻𝙾𝚁 recovers from mistakes without any additional data, DAgger corrections, or ground truth rewards.