Ameya Salvi
@ameyasalvi.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles. Interested in all things science, education, and engineering. ameyarsalvi.github.io
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Ameya Salvi
@ameyasalvi.bsky.social
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Ameya Salvi
ameyarsalvi.github.io
Now that I have a decent lay of the land, perhaps a good time for a 'pin'-able tweet about me.
I am a robotics researcher and a PhD candidate based out of Clemson Uni with research focused on field mobile robots -- with emphasis on combining learning & formal methods.
ameyarsalvi.github.io
I am a robotics researcher and a PhD candidate based out of Clemson Uni with research focused on field mobile robots -- with emphasis on combining learning & formal methods.
ameyarsalvi.github.io
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My personal highlight of #ICRA2025 was my own presentation. I know its kinda shameless self promotion but this was my first experience and will be a lifetime memory!
Conferences are these occasional pauses to receive necessary course corrections on your work!
Conferences are these occasional pauses to receive necessary course corrections on your work!
May 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
My personal highlight of #ICRA2025 was my own presentation. I know its kinda shameless self promotion but this was my first experience and will be a lifetime memory!
Conferences are these occasional pauses to receive necessary course corrections on your work!
Conferences are these occasional pauses to receive necessary course corrections on your work!
Wow, never really thought of it that way!
The perverse incentives of Vibe Coding
｢ Unlike fixed rewards, this intermittent success pattern (“the code works! it’s brilliant! it just broke! wtf!”), triggers stronger dopamine responses in our brain’s reward pathways, similar to gambling behaviors ｣
#vibecoding #ai
｢ Unlike fixed rewards, this intermittent success pattern (“the code works! it’s brilliant! it just broke! wtf!”), triggers stronger dopamine responses in our brain’s reward pathways, similar to gambling behaviors ｣
#vibecoding #ai
The perverse incentives of Vibe Coding
I’ve been using AI coding assistants like Claude Code for a while now, and I’m here to say (with all due respect to people who have…
uxdesign.cc
May 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Wow, never really thought of it that way!
Next week I’ll presenting my work at #ICRA2025 in the Calibration session. Do visit to learn more about using IMMs as skidding estimators!
TuCT12.3
TuCT12.3
May 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Next week I’ll presenting my work at #ICRA2025 in the Calibration session. Do visit to learn more about using IMMs as skidding estimators!
TuCT12.3
TuCT12.3
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Public education is the backbone of American democracy.
In the richest country in the history of the world, we cannot abandon our teachers and our public schools.
In the richest country in the history of the world, we cannot abandon our teachers and our public schools.
February 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Public education is the backbone of American democracy.
In the richest country in the history of the world, we cannot abandon our teachers and our public schools.
In the richest country in the history of the world, we cannot abandon our teachers and our public schools.
I am looking for options to deploy VLMs/VLAs on edge devices. Came across this guy who deployed LLaVA on Pi. Are there better options? Especially for Xavier AGX / Orin kind of edge devices.
youtu.be/0O8RHxpkcGc?...
youtu.be/0O8RHxpkcGc?...
This mini GPU runs LLM that controls this robot
YouTube video by Nikodem Bartnik
youtu.be
February 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I am looking for options to deploy VLMs/VLAs on edge devices. Came across this guy who deployed LLaVA on Pi. Are there better options? Especially for Xavier AGX / Orin kind of edge devices.
youtu.be/0O8RHxpkcGc?...
youtu.be/0O8RHxpkcGc?...
Check out my paper at this year’s ICRA.
TLDR: we are using adaptive estimation to guess robot model/environmental changes.
arxiv.org/abs/2409.20554
TLDR: we are using adaptive estimation to guess robot model/environmental changes.
arxiv.org/abs/2409.20554
Online identification of skidding modes with interactive multiple model estimation
Skid-steered wheel mobile robots (SSWMRs) operate in a variety of outdoor environments exhibiting motion behaviors dominated by the effects of complex wheel-ground interactions. Characterizing these i...
arxiv.org
January 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Check out my paper at this year’s ICRA.
TLDR: we are using adaptive estimation to guess robot model/environmental changes.
arxiv.org/abs/2409.20554
TLDR: we are using adaptive estimation to guess robot model/environmental changes.
arxiv.org/abs/2409.20554
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This year looks to have the first fully autonomous, consumer home mobile manipulator, and it's not coming from Tesla or anyone: it's the Roborock Saros Z70, presumably coming for $2000 this summer to put your socks away: open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
The first consumer-ready manipulator?
Roborock announced a version of its robot vaccuum with an arm at CES 2025
open.substack.com
January 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This year looks to have the first fully autonomous, consumer home mobile manipulator, and it's not coming from Tesla or anyone: it's the Roborock Saros Z70, presumably coming for $2000 this summer to put your socks away: open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
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A recent interview I did for the Brains and Machines podcast. www.eetimes.com/podcasts/rob...
Robots Need Physical, Not Just Artificial, Intelligence - EE Times Podcast
Explore robotics evolution with Rodney Brooks, discussing practical AI and the balance between computation and physicality.
www.eetimes.com
January 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A recent interview I did for the Brains and Machines podcast. www.eetimes.com/podcasts/rob...
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An illustrated guide to never learning anything
December 25, 2024 at 12:26 AM
An illustrated guide to never learning anything
AI tools for every human task would exist not because they are good or bad, but because people need an alternative to the effort of doing the task.
AI tools for every human task would not matter, because people who enjoy doing the task for the sake of it would keep on doing it regardless. :)
AI tools for every human task would not matter, because people who enjoy doing the task for the sake of it would keep on doing it regardless. :)
December 11, 2024 at 9:28 PM
AI tools for every human task would exist not because they are good or bad, but because people need an alternative to the effort of doing the task.
AI tools for every human task would not matter, because people who enjoy doing the task for the sake of it would keep on doing it regardless. :)
AI tools for every human task would not matter, because people who enjoy doing the task for the sake of it would keep on doing it regardless. :)
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I was wondering a while ago what happened to all the little delivery robot companies so I looked into it. I think it's so interesting that these things were everywhere in ~2018-2020, but then vanished!
itcanthink.substack.com/p/what-happe...
itcanthink.substack.com/p/what-happe...
What Happened to the Delivery Robots?
Analyzing a trend in robotics that seems to have peaked a few years ago - and hopefully is on its way back
itcanthink.substack.com
December 11, 2024 at 6:51 PM
I was wondering a while ago what happened to all the little delivery robot companies so I looked into it. I think it's so interesting that these things were everywhere in ~2018-2020, but then vanished!
itcanthink.substack.com/p/what-happe...
itcanthink.substack.com/p/what-happe...
More than the question on viability of the AV tech, this potentially is more about GM focusing on short term gains, which arguably are with ADAS.
"[GM] has scrapped its Cruise robotaxi program, citing the time and costs needed to scale the business and rising competition ....
GM ... said it plans to realign its autonomous driving strategy and give priority to development of advanced driver assistance systems." www.wsj.com/business/aut...
GM ... said it plans to realign its autonomous driving strategy and give priority to development of advanced driver assistance systems." www.wsj.com/business/aut...
General Motors Scraps Cruise Robotaxi Program
Carmaker cites competition, time and costs needed to scale the business.
www.wsj.com
December 11, 2024 at 3:31 AM
More than the question on viability of the AV tech, this potentially is more about GM focusing on short term gains, which arguably are with ADAS.
IEEE RAS new journal Robotics and Automation Practice (RA-P)
I believe this is going to be a pivotal step in bringing industry and academia a step closer!
www.ieee-ras.org/publications...
I believe this is going to be a pivotal step in bringing industry and academia a step closer!
www.ieee-ras.org/publications...
RA-P - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Focus is on both applied and theoretical issues in robotics and automation. Robotics is here defined to include intelligent machines and systems; whereas automation includes the use of automated metho...
www.ieee-ras.org
December 10, 2024 at 6:45 PM
IEEE RAS new journal Robotics and Automation Practice (RA-P)
I believe this is going to be a pivotal step in bringing industry and academia a step closer!
www.ieee-ras.org/publications...
I believe this is going to be a pivotal step in bringing industry and academia a step closer!
www.ieee-ras.org/publications...
Tour state-of-the-art Stanford Robotics Center
YouTube video by Stanford
youtu.be
December 9, 2024 at 12:11 AM
While I am extremely happy for all the ways NVIDIA is accelerating the robot learning processes, I don’t understand this need to constantly renew the nomenclature for vanilla concepts of modeling and control theory.
www.nvidia.com/en-us/glossa...
www.nvidia.com/en-us/glossa...
What is Physical AI?
Read more on NVIDIA Glossary
www.nvidia.com
December 8, 2024 at 5:10 PM
While I am extremely happy for all the ways NVIDIA is accelerating the robot learning processes, I don’t understand this need to constantly renew the nomenclature for vanilla concepts of modeling and control theory.
www.nvidia.com/en-us/glossa...
www.nvidia.com/en-us/glossa...
Returning on the social after a while I am realizing that having an algorithm curate something like ‘for you’/‘discover’ could be useful to narrow down stuff.
Especially you wanna catch up on 2-3 days worth of content :(
Especially you wanna catch up on 2-3 days worth of content :(
December 8, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Returning on the social after a while I am realizing that having an algorithm curate something like ‘for you’/‘discover’ could be useful to narrow down stuff.
Especially you wanna catch up on 2-3 days worth of content :(
Especially you wanna catch up on 2-3 days worth of content :(
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A significantly similar argument in engineering is between model based control (which is still very arts-y with coming up with basis functions, modeling,etc) vs using ML (IL/RL) for policy learning.
Luckily the challenges with embodiment have kept the MBC relevant for now!
Luckily the challenges with embodiment have kept the MBC relevant for now!
December 6, 2024 at 8:37 PM
A significantly similar argument in engineering is between model based control (which is still very arts-y with coming up with basis functions, modeling,etc) vs using ML (IL/RL) for policy learning.
Luckily the challenges with embodiment have kept the MBC relevant for now!
Luckily the challenges with embodiment have kept the MBC relevant for now!
Probably cause the best test of robustness is Florida drivers 🤷🏻♂️
Waymo’s next robotaxi city will be Miami
Waymo’s next robotaxi city will be Miami
Welcome to Miami
buff.ly
December 5, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Probably cause the best test of robustness is Florida drivers 🤷🏻♂️
Key arguments from the ICRA debate “Generative AI will make a lot of traditional robotics approaches obsolete”
(1/6) A thread 🧵
Have to say, just like my own mind, both the parties eventually seemed pretty on the fence and waiting for time to decide on this one.
www.roboticsdebates.org
(1/6) A thread 🧵
Have to say, just like my own mind, both the parties eventually seemed pretty on the fence and waiting for time to decide on this one.
www.roboticsdebates.org
Robotics Debates
Debates on the Future of Robotics Research
Full-Day Hybrid Workshop | May 13th at ICRA 2024
Time: 10:00-16:35 JST | Pacific Convention Plaza Yokohama, Room G411 + Live streaming here!
www.roboticsdebates.org
December 4, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Key arguments from the ICRA debate “Generative AI will make a lot of traditional robotics approaches obsolete”
(1/6) A thread 🧵
Have to say, just like my own mind, both the parties eventually seemed pretty on the fence and waiting for time to decide on this one.
www.roboticsdebates.org
(1/6) A thread 🧵
Have to say, just like my own mind, both the parties eventually seemed pretty on the fence and waiting for time to decide on this one.
www.roboticsdebates.org
One of my fav times of the sem is being invited as guest judge in course project presentations.
Evil smiles only 😈
JK, I am a kind judge 😇. Everybody passes!
Evil smiles only 😈
JK, I am a kind judge 😇. Everybody passes!
December 3, 2024 at 6:52 PM
One of my fav times of the sem is being invited as guest judge in course project presentations.
Evil smiles only 😈
JK, I am a kind judge 😇. Everybody passes!
Evil smiles only 😈
JK, I am a kind judge 😇. Everybody passes!
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I'd like to introduce what I've been working at @hellorobot.bsky.social: Stretch AI, a set of open-source tools for language-guided autonomy, exploration, navigation, and learning from demonstration.
Check it out: github.com/hello-robot/...
Thread ->
Check it out: github.com/hello-robot/...
Thread ->
December 3, 2024 at 4:51 PM
I'd like to introduce what I've been working at @hellorobot.bsky.social: Stretch AI, a set of open-source tools for language-guided autonomy, exploration, navigation, and learning from demonstration.
Check it out: github.com/hello-robot/...
Thread ->
Check it out: github.com/hello-robot/...
Thread ->
I am that guy, that guy is me :/
Stay away, please.
Stay away, please.
Guy who opposes return to office mandates because he likes working in the office, but doesn't want it to get too busy.
December 3, 2024 at 4:11 PM
I am that guy, that guy is me :/
Stay away, please.
Stay away, please.
The more such tools are coming forth the less I wish to use them.
Something about not taking passive aggressive suggestions from someone or *something* else. :(
Something about not taking passive aggressive suggestions from someone or *something* else. :(
December 3, 2024 at 2:11 AM
The more such tools are coming forth the less I wish to use them.
Something about not taking passive aggressive suggestions from someone or *something* else. :(
Something about not taking passive aggressive suggestions from someone or *something* else. :(