We are thrilled to announce our
#RSSPioneers2024
cohort! 🎉
Congratulations to these 30 rising stars in robotics! We thank all of our applicants for their inspiring submissions, and our selection committee and reviewers for their participation and insight.
Happy Friday, robotics researchers!
We are *exactly* 1 month away from the
#RSSPioneers2023
workshop!
Research statements for this year's cohort are available online: . We will announce our speakers in the coming weeks – stay tuned!
#RSSPioneers
#RSS2023
Happy Friday, robotics researchers!
We are 2 weeks away from the
#RSSPioneers2024
workshop! Research statements for this year's cohort are available online: . We will announce our speakers in the coming weeks – stay tuned!
#RSSPioneers
#RSS2024
Happy Monday, robotics researchers!
On behalf of the organizing committee, we'd like to thank everyone for their participation at the
#RSSPioneers2024
workshop! We hope that it was an unforgettable and inspiring experience for our Pioneers!
Check out some highlights👇!
Happy Sunday, robotics researchers!
On behalf of the organizing committee, we'd like to thank everyone for their engagement at the
#RSSPioneers2023
workshop!
We hope that it was an unforgettable and inspiring experience for our pioneers!
Check out some highlights in our 🧵👇!
Happy
#TBT
! We start our
#RSSPioneers
throwbacks by featuring Kashyap Chitta (
@kashyap7x
), a 2023 RSS Pioneer and one of our publicity chairs.
Kashyap is a Ph.D. student at
@uni_tue
in the
@AutoVisionGroup
led by Professor Andreas Geiger.
Find out more about him in our 🧵👇!
Happy
#TBT
! This week's
#RSSPioneers
throwback features Rohan Chandra (
@rohanchandra30
), a 2022 RSS Pioneer.
He is a postdoctoral research fellow working at
@UTAustin
and a graduate of
@umdcs
.
Find out more about him in our 🧵👇!
We are *thrilled* to announce our speakers for the
#RSSPioneers2023
workshop!
Keynote: Gregory Chirikjian (NUS)
Invited talks:
- Jen Jen Chung (UQ)
- Kostas Bekris
@BekrisKostas
(Rutgers)
- Amy Kyungwon Han (SNU)
- Shuran Song
@SongShuran
(Columbia)
Speakers bios in 🧵👇!
Attention senior Ph.D. students and early career researchers across the field of robotics! Applications for the
#RSSPioneers2024
workshop (part of the
#RSS2024
conference in Delft, the Netherlands) open next week on Thursday, January 11. More details here:
We are thrilled to announce the
#RSSPioneers2023
cohort: !
We thank everyone for their inspiring submissions, and we sincerely thank all our meta-reviewers for their participation and feedback.
Stay tuned for more on this year's workshop at
#RSS2023
!
We are excited to announce our line-up of panelists for the
#RSSPioneers2023
workshop!
We will feature two panels: an industry panel and an academic panel. Read more about our featured panelists here: .
More info in 🧵👇!
Happy Tuesday, robotics researchers!
We are less than a week until the
#RSSPioneers2023
workshop at
#RSS2023
(
@RoboticsSciSys
) in Daegu, South Korea!
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the RSS Foundation (our main sponsor) and Amazon Robotics (
@amazondrives
).
This week's
#RSSPioneers
throwback features Nare Karapetyan (
@robobzbz
), a tenure track Assistant Scientist at
@WHOI
and a faculty of the MIT-WHOI joint graduate program. Nare is establishing the Field and Algorithmic Robotics Lab.
Learn more about her research below! 🧵🌊
We start this week's
#RSSPioneers
throwbacks by celebrating Yifeng Zhu (
@yifengzhu_ut
), a fifth-year Ph.D. student at
@UTAustin
.
His research focuses on data-efficient learning of robot manipulation skills...but also features coffee! How so? Read on below! ☕️🧵
We received an impressive total of 202 applicants, ~50% more than last year! Many thanks to all who applied. Over the next few weeks, while the reviewers and program committee determine this year's cohort, we are excited to highlight some of our 2023 RSS Pioneers. Stay tuned!🚀
We are thrilled to announce our line-up of speakers and panelists for the
#RSSPioneers2024
workshop!
We will feature one keynote, five invited talks, as well as two panels: an academic panel and an industry panel. Read more here:
More in 🧵
📢EXTENSION: Attention senior robotics Ph.D. students and early career researchers! The application deadline for
#RSSPioneers2024
has been extended one week to Feb. 16. Now’s your chance to finish those applications!
🚨 Attention early career robotics researchers! The deadline for submitting contributions to the
#RSSPioneers2023
workshop has been extended to February 16, 2023. Don't miss your chance to submit! More details can be found here:
We're excited to see the buzz around our
#RSSPioneers2024
cohort! We'd like to share some statistics about this year's group. 📊
See more details below! 🧵👇
🚨⏰Don’t forget: This Friday is the deadline to apply to
#RSSPioneers2024
at
#RSS2024
! Senior Ph.D. students and early career researchers across all aspects of robotics are encouraged to apply. Check our website for submission details:
Happy
#TBT
! This week, we are featuring Sven Lilge (
@SvenLilge
), a postdoc working with Tim Barfoot at the Autonomous Space Robotics Laboratory at the University of Toronto Robotics Institute.
Read about his research on continuum robots and his time as a 2023 RSS Pioneer! 🧵👇
The application portal for the
#RSSPioneers2024
workshop (to be held at
#RSS2024
) is now open! 🤖 Senior Ph.D. students and early career researchers in robotics are encouraged to apply. Check out our website for further instructions:
We would like to take this opportunity to share some statistics about the
#RSSPioneers2023
cohort and to shed some light on our selection process. 📊
Key insights are listed in the 🧵👇!
And we wrapped with a dinner sponsored by The AI Institute . It was a great social event!
The workshop also would not have been possible without sponsorship by the RSS Foundation
@RoboticsSciSys
, Robohouse , and TRI
@ToyotaResearch
!
"Know when to explore vs exploit", "Be the orchestrator of your career", "Linear path is not always better". Many insigths from the last invited talk, by Kapil Katyal!
#RSS2023
#RSSPioneers2023
Happy
#TBT
! This week’s
#RSSPioneers
throwback features George Kontoudis (
@g_kontoudis
), a 2022 RSS Pioneer.
George is a postdoc at
@UMDAero
working with Michael Otte. He received his Ph.D. at
@VT_ECE
advised by Daniel Stilwell.
Find out more about him in our 🧵👇!
We are accepting applications to this year’s
#RSSPioneers2024
workshop! RSS Pioneers brings together top senior Ph.D. students, postdocs, and young industry members to foster creativity and collaborations surrounding challenges in all areas of robotics.
Applications for the
#RSSPioneers2023
workshop (to be held at
#RSS2023
) are open! Senior PhD students and early-career researchers in robotics are encouraged to apply. Find more details on how to apply here:
Today's
#RSSPioneers
throwback features Zhenhua Yu!
@ZhenhuaYu_IC
is a 2023 RSS Pioneer and a postdoctoral research fellow at
@imperialcollege
London. He also earned his Ph.D. at Imperial, working with Prof. Thrishantha Nanayakkara and Prof. Peter Childs.
Read more below! 🧵🤖
We would like to give a shoutout to our OC members who made it to Daegu and were onsite at
#RSSPioneers2023
!
We are especially grateful to everyone who made this workshop possible, both remote and in-person. Thank you all for your hard work!🙏
Attention senior PhD students and postdocs! Applications for the RSS Pioneers workshop (part of the
#RSS2023
conference in Daegu, South Korea) will open on Jan 11, 2023! More details can be found here: . Stay tuned!
How to pick an interesting topic, and how/when to switch to another topic? These and many other lists of hints by Jens Kober!
#RSS2023
#RSSPioneers2023
Thanks for the question
@TobiasRobotics
! Acceptance emails have been sent out, and now the Pioneers have some time to confirm their participation. We will post here when the
#RSS2024Pioneers
cohort is live on the website - should be next week! 🙂
Today's
#RSSPioneers
throwback highlights Rachael Bevill Burns (
@RachaelBBurns
), a recent Ph.D. graduate turned postdoc at
@MPI_IS
. Rachael studies socially assistive robotics, with a focus on giving robots a sense of social touch.
Learn more about her & her robot below: 🧵🐨👇
Moving on with the industry panel! Great questions brought up by the pioneers around the differences between industry and academia.
#RSS2023
#RSSPioneers2023
SiQi is also serving as
#RSSPioneers2023
Chair!
“I am looking forward to the upcoming edition of the RSS Pioneers workshop taking place this summer in Daegu, Korea!”
– SiQi (
@zhousiqi9
)
Stay tuned for more highlights and information from us! Do continue to enjoy your weekend!
(If you have more fun pictures from the workshop, feel free to tag us! 🙂)
#RSSPioneers2023
#RSSPioneers
#RSS2023
🚨 Don't forget: tomorrow is the final day to submit your contribution to the
#RSSPioneers2023
workshop (to be held at
#RSS2023
)! Check out our website for submission details:
We wrapped up the day with a dinner sponsored by Amazon Robotics (
@amazondrives
). It was an amazing social event!
We once again thank Amazon Robotics for their support!
We received 50% more applications at
@RSSPioneers
than last year with 135 total submissions! Great job from our Social Media Chair
@davidpaulius
advertising the call!
@zhousiqi9
and I will are working on the organization of the RSS Pioneers (part of the
#RSS2023
).
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We had an amazing line-up of speakers and panelists from both academia and industry!
They shared lots of wisdom with our participants, including advice on finding research directions and maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
Let's ring in the weekend with an
#RSSPioneers
throwback! Today we feature Manuel Keppler, who leads the Elastic Robot Control Group at the
@DLR_en
. He received his Ph.D. at
@TU_Muenchen
advised by Alin Albu-Schäffer.
Read more about Manuel and his work below! 🚀🧵🤖
Our
#RSSPioneers
shared their research work with one another as spotlight presentations!
They also shared their work at poster sessions during the
#RSS2023
proceedings.
We sincerely thank the
#RSS2023
organizers (
@RoboticsSciSys
) for their assistance in making this workshop a success! 🙏
In particular, we are grateful to Kyuman Lee (Local Chair) for helping us prepare the venue,
@BekrisKostas
(Program Chair), & Kris Hauser (General Chair).
“I develop scalable exploration and planning algorithms to facilitate real-time execution of multi-robot missions. I envision that my methods will enable robots in time critical applications.”
– George (
@g_kontoudis
)
Check out his website for more info:
SiQi’s research is at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and system control.
She aims to develop learning-based decision-making frameworks that allow robots to safely and efficiently perform versatile tasks in dynamic and unstructured environments.
"Let's get the next generation interested in research!". Nicole spoke about the importance in engaging in scientific outreach and resulting opportunities that arose!
She shared the following about her
#RSSPioneers
experience:
“It was great to be part of the RSS Pioneers. I really enjoyed connecting with fellow roboticists from different disciplines and learning about each other's research.”
– SiQi (
@zhousiqi9
)
We are less than a week away from the opening of applications for the RSS Pioneers 2023 workshop at
#RSS2023
! Be sure to check out our website for instructions on how to apply: .
#RSSPioneers2023
#RSSPioneers
He shared the following about his
#RSSPioneers
experience:
“It was a wonderful experience! I had the opportunity to meet young researchers and discuss about future research directions. I also received constructive feedback from senior researchers.”
– George (
@g_kontoudis
)
“My future goal is to further close the perception-action loop with an emphasis on semantic understandings for safe interaction.”
– SiQi (
@zhousiqi9
)
Check out her website for more information:
Rohan's research interests span robotics, AI, and autonomous driving.
He investigates how we can make robots that autonomously navigate safely, efficiently, and with social compliance, in challenging shared human spaces and environments.
"I envision that the ability of data-efficient skill learning is a necessary technical component in order for personal robots to be as ubiquitous as iPhones." --Yifeng Zhu (
@yifengzhu_ut
)
Lan Wu starts our final set of Pioneers lightning talks! She is presenting her work on probabilistic distance fields for robotics.
#RSS2024
#RSSPioneers