Ankur Handa
@ankurhandos
Robotics Researcher @NvidiaAI. Previously, Researcher at @OpenAI
We are excited to release our work on DexPilot, a markerless, glove-free and vision based teleoperation of dexterous robot hand-arm system pdf is here github.com/ankurhanda/dex… link to more videos sites.google.com/view/dex-pilot youtu.be/qGE-deYfb8I
Boston Dynamics collaborated with NVIDIA to demonstrate DextrAH-RGB, a workflow for dexterous grasping from stereo RGB input. The end-to-end policy for Atlas robot, trained entirely in NVIDIA Isaac Lab, transfers zero-shot from simulation to the real robot.
As you know I'm obsessed with power laws in biology, which is a biological consequence of fundamental principles, like energy conservation from the first law of thermodynamics. Geoffrey West showed how highly optimized biological networks—think blood vessels or respiratory…
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ICML’s Statement about subversive hidden LLM prompts We live in a weird timeline…
The Gemini of the past (so appropriately named back then too). Mercury and Gemini are little less talked about, but they were both crucial steps before the Apollo.
#Apollo11 liftoff, Walter Cronkite: "What a moment! Man in the way to moon...", July 16, 1969 contactlight.de forallmankind.de
#Apollo11 liftoff, Walter Cronkite: "What a moment! Man in the way to moon...", July 16, 1969 contactlight.de forallmankind.de
Bassist Helena Cruz performing the most complex loop programming you'll see!
If you're interested in working on learning from simulation, direct from perception and training at scale for multi-fingered hands please reach out to me and my colleagues. We are looking for talented researchers who have worked or have experience working on those problems.
The Dex team at NVIDIA is defining the bleeding edge of sim2real dexterity. Take a look below 🧵 There's a lot happening at NVIDIA in robotics, and we’re looking for good people! Reach out if you're interested. We have some big things brewing (and scaling :)
The Dex team at NVIDIA is defining the bleeding edge of sim2real dexterity. Take a look below 🧵 There's a lot happening at NVIDIA in robotics, and we’re looking for good people! Reach out if you're interested. We have some big things brewing (and scaling :)
Well done @peteflorence and @andyzeng_. This is impressive dexterity with dual arm manipulators.
Today we're excited to share a glimpse of what we're building at Generalist. As a first step towards our mission of making general-purpose robots a reality, we're pushing the frontiers of what end-to-end AI models can achieve in the real world. Here's a preview of our early…
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COMEBACK COMPLETE. TITLE DEFENSE COMPLETE. #RolandGarros
So Flow Matching is *just* xt = mix(x0, x1, t) loss = mse((x1 - x0) - nn(xt, t)) Nice, here it is in a fragment shader :) shadertoy.com/view/tfdXRM
🧑🤖 Introducing Human2Sim2Robot! 💪🦾 Learn robust dexterous manipulation policies from just one human RGB-D video. Our Real→Sim→Real framework crosses the human-robot embodiment gap using RL in simulation. #Robotics #DexterousManipulation #Sim2Real 🧵1/7
This is really cool 😍
Introducing MicroFactory A robot that automates repetitive manual work — starting with electronics assembly.
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Boston Dynamics’ robot-behavior team lead highlights three core initiatives aimed at advancing Atlas’s dexterity: ⦿ Reinforcement learning in simulation ⦿ Whole-body teleoperation to collect data for imitation learning ⦿ Tactile sensing grippers
our new system trains humanoid robots using data from cell phone videos, enabling skills such as climbing stairs and sitting on chairs in a single policy (w/ @redstone_hong @junyi42 @davidrmcall)
4 billion years of evolution in 40 seconds. From COSMOS: A Personal Voyage, written by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan