Maximilian Du
@du_maximilian
Stanford AI Ph.D. researcher interested in enabling robots to reason like humans & animals! Previously at Stanford undergrad and U.S. Navy dolphin program :)
Normally, changing robot policy behavior means changing its weights or relying on a goal-conditioned policy. What if there was another way? Check out DynaGuide, a novel policy steering approach that works on any pretrained diffusion policy. dynaguide.github.io 🧵
Your bimanual manipulators might need a Robot Neck 🤖🦒 Introducing Vision in Action: Learning Active Perception from Human Demonstrations ViA learns task-specific, active perceptual strategies—such as searching, tracking, and focusing—directly from human demos, enabling robust…
A wonderful time!! Let’s not talk about what happened after 6pm 😈
The recipes are twists from classic drinks like Palomas and Martinis. The names are inspired by the drink tastes: 'reviewer#2' is spicy with jalapeños, 'in-between-projects' because it's chill and relaxing. shout out to my co-host @du_maximilian!