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Excited to share that our work NeuralActuator: Neural Actuation Modeling for Robot Dynamics and External Force Perception has been accepted to #RSS2026! Your robot — even a low-cost one — can feel external forces without torque or tactile sensors. TL;DR: NeuralActuator is a neural actuator model that jointly predicts 1️⃣torque to capture the nonlinear and time-varying current–to–torque relationship of low-cost servos, 2️⃣external contact forces (and force detection gates) for sensorless force perception, 3️⃣and motor conditions that indicate each motor’s operating regime. Here is a fast-forward video clip ⬇️ We are also covering more robots like LeRobot-S101 and Franka Panda. More details coming soon.
Zhiyang (Frank) Dou51,006 views • 5 months ago
I'm at #RSS2026 – presenting MolmoSpaces on Tuesday & CAP (Contact Anchored Policies) on Wednesday. I've been thinking a lot about what robotics 2-5 years from now looks like: beyond teleop and position control. If you're interested about anything from robot free/human data or sim evals to force/torque controlled dexterous hands, let's chat! 🧵
Mahi Shafiullah 🏠🤖11,919 views • 2 months ago
I unfortunately had to cancel my #RSS2026 trip last minute, but fortunately my excellent students, collaborators and postdocs will be representing our work much better than me anyways :) We have 4 papers that you might enjoy (Sydney time): 1. Simulation Distillation: Pretraining World Models in Simulation for Rapid Real-World Adaptation (Mon 7/13 3:15-4:00pm) Tyler Westenbroek Jacob Levy 2. TMRL: Diffusion Timestep-Modulated Pre-training Enables Exploration for Efficient Policy Fine-tuning (Thu 7/16 3:15-4:00pm) Matthew Hong Jesse Zhang 3. PolaRiS: Scalable Real-to-Sim Evaluations for Generalist Robot Policies (Tue 7/14, 11:50-12:30pm) Arhan Jain Karl Pertsch 4. Robometer: Scaling General-Purpose Robotic Reward Models via Trajectory Comparison (Wed 7/15, 3:15-4:00pm) Jesse Zhang Anthony Liang Yigit Korkmaz Please go ask them many difficult questions! :) Also - go see the amazing Jesse Zhang at his RSS pioneers poster Tue 4-5pm!
Abhishek Gupta11,063 views • 2 months ago
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