📢 EMBER x HIC Seminar Oct 28: Lining Yao (UC Berkeley) @lining_yao
Fluidic Shape Morphing Skin for Robotics
⏰ Oct. 28, 11 AM - 12 PM
📍 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
🔗 Past and future talks: ember-lab.eecs.berkeley.edu/seminars/
❓How can humanoids learn by watching humans?
Naive retargeting can lose crucial contacts: like bracing a hand on a table while bending to pick an object off the floor.
🚀 Introducing VICAR: preserve key contacts from human videos, practice in simulation, deploy on hardware
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📢 EMBER x HIC Seminar Oct 23: Guanya Shi (CMU) @GuanyaShi
Toward Generalist Humanoids: Learning from Human and Robot Experience
⏰ Oct. 23, 11 AM - 12 PM
📍 Gateway 4355
🔗 Past and future talks: ember-lab.eecs.berkeley.edu/seminars/
📢 EMBER x HIC Seminar Oct 21: Aaron Ames (Caltech)
Safe Autonomy for Humanoid Robots
⏰ Oct. 21, 11 AM - 12 PM
📍 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
🔗 Past and future talks: ember-lab.eecs.berkeley.edu/seminars/
Practice makes perfect. A truly agentic robot shouldn’t just know what to do. It should also figure out how to get better.
What if a robot could watch a demonstration, figure out what it needs to practice, and learn how to get better through practice?
Introducing RPG: Guided Self-Improvement for Embodied Agents, a real-to-sim-to-real pipeline that turns real-world demonstrations into targeted practice.
RPG reconstructs practice tasks from demonstrations, uses demo videos to guide skill improvement, and continually updates a shared skill system from failures.
On real robots, RPG achieves 30/30 successes across 3 tasks. In simulation, it reaches 95.0% success across 22 manipulation tasks after 15 rounds of self-improvement.
Demo → Reconstruct → Guided Practice → Self-Improve → Go Real
📢 EMBER x HIC Seminar Oct 14: Joseph Moore (Johns Hopkins University)
Defying the Limits: Safe Control for Highly Agile Robots in Extreme Environments
⏰ Sep. 16, 11 AM - 12 PM
📍 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
🔗 Past and future talks: ember-lab.eecs.berkeley.edu/seminars/
📢 EMBER Seminar September 16: Shuran Song (Stanford University)
We are excited to host @SongShuran 's talk: Making Manipulation as Simple as Possible But not Simpler
⏰ Sep. 16, 11 AM - 12 PM
📍 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
🔗 Past and future talks: ember-lab.eecs.berkeley.edu/seminars/
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