Katherine Liu
@katherineliu.bsky.social
Senior Research Scientist at the Toyota Research Institute (LBM/CV), previously Robotics PhD at CSAIL/MIT. Excited about embodied intelligence and the intersection of CV/Planning/ML. Opinions my own. Give me all the robots!
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Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds
Join the Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds workshop.
simulatingrobotworlds.github.io
🚀 We’re pleased to announce our workshop at CoRL 2025: Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds! Workshop website: simulatingrobotworlds.github.io
The workshop aims to cover topics like physics-grounded simulation, photorealistic digital twins, AI-controlled simulators, to learned neural world models.
The workshop aims to cover topics like physics-grounded simulation, photorealistic digital twins, AI-controlled simulators, to learned neural world models.
Also: if you are interested in working on VLAs/LBMs, my group is recruiting interns! I’m particularly interested in improving 3D reasoning in embodied foundation models. Come find me to chat if this sounds interesting to you!
I’ll be in Seoul for #CoRL2025 this week, helping run the Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds workshop. I'll also be at the TRI booth and the TRI Women and Allies Breakfast. Come say hello or DM me! Looking forward to seeing everyone in person.
September 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Also: if you are interested in working on VLAs/LBMs, my group is recruiting interns! I’m particularly interested in improving 3D reasoning in embodied foundation models. Come find me to chat if this sounds interesting to you!
I’ll be in Seoul for #CoRL2025 this week, helping run the Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds workshop. I'll also be at the TRI booth and the TRI Women and Allies Breakfast. Come say hello or DM me! Looking forward to seeing everyone in person.
September 24, 2025 at 6:32 AM
I’ll be in Seoul for #CoRL2025 this week, helping run the Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds workshop. I'll also be at the TRI booth and the TRI Women and Allies Breakfast. Come say hello or DM me! Looking forward to seeing everyone in person.
We've extended the deadline to August 25th, 2025 🎉 Hope this helps any submissions that didn't quite make it in by the 18th. If you're working on robot simulation please consider submitting!
Are you working on real-to-sim, sim-to-real, learning world models, or using physics based simulators to do interesting robotics tasks? There are 15 days to the submission deadline for our CoRL workshop Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds. More details here simulatingrobotworlds.github.io/submit.html
Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds
simulatingrobotworlds.github.io
August 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
We've extended the deadline to August 25th, 2025 🎉 Hope this helps any submissions that didn't quite make it in by the 18th. If you're working on robot simulation please consider submitting!
Are you working on real-to-sim, sim-to-real, learning world models, or using physics based simulators to do interesting robotics tasks? There are 15 days to the submission deadline for our CoRL workshop Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds. More details here simulatingrobotworlds.github.io/submit.html
Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds
simulatingrobotworlds.github.io
August 4, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Are you working on real-to-sim, sim-to-real, learning world models, or using physics based simulators to do interesting robotics tasks? There are 15 days to the submission deadline for our CoRL workshop Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds. More details here simulatingrobotworlds.github.io/submit.html
🚀 We’re pleased to announce our workshop at CoRL 2025: Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds! Workshop website: simulatingrobotworlds.github.io
The workshop aims to cover topics like physics-grounded simulation, photorealistic digital twins, AI-controlled simulators, to learned neural world models.
The workshop aims to cover topics like physics-grounded simulation, photorealistic digital twins, AI-controlled simulators, to learned neural world models.
Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds
Join the Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds workshop.
simulatingrobotworlds.github.io
August 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
🚀 We’re pleased to announce our workshop at CoRL 2025: Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds! Workshop website: simulatingrobotworlds.github.io
The workshop aims to cover topics like physics-grounded simulation, photorealistic digital twins, AI-controlled simulators, to learned neural world models.
The workshop aims to cover topics like physics-grounded simulation, photorealistic digital twins, AI-controlled simulators, to learned neural world models.
Come hang out! We ran a similar event at CoRL last year that was really fun.
Attending #RSS2025? Do you want to mingle with Toyota Research Institute (TRI) researchers and other RSS attendees in an informal breakfast setting? TRI is organizing a women & allies breakfast on June 24th at 8am! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
TRI Women & Allies Breakfast @ RSS 2025
Join us for a morning of great conversation, inspiration, and networking alongside some yummy breakfast snacks as Toyota Research Institute (TRI) hosts its first RSS Women & Allies breakfast. We look...
docs.google.com
June 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Come hang out! We ran a similar event at CoRL last year that was really fun.
Reposted by Katherine Liu
IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN!!!! Time to wake up early and go watch birds at the @cvprconference.bsky.social #CVBirdWalk
Friday, June 13th, from 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM at the scenic Shelby Bottoms Nature Center & Greenway (1900 Davidson St, Nashville, TN 37206). maps.app.goo.gl/Km8oWJzgVQyo...
Friday, June 13th, from 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM at the scenic Shelby Bottoms Nature Center & Greenway (1900 Davidson St, Nashville, TN 37206). maps.app.goo.gl/Km8oWJzgVQyo...
June 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN!!!! Time to wake up early and go watch birds at the @cvprconference.bsky.social #CVBirdWalk
Friday, June 13th, from 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM at the scenic Shelby Bottoms Nature Center & Greenway (1900 Davidson St, Nashville, TN 37206). maps.app.goo.gl/Km8oWJzgVQyo...
Friday, June 13th, from 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM at the scenic Shelby Bottoms Nature Center & Greenway (1900 Davidson St, Nashville, TN 37206). maps.app.goo.gl/Km8oWJzgVQyo...
Something that really stood out to me this ICRA was the diversity of robots in Expo hall. For a while there I’ve been seeing only humanoids and quadrupeds. This year I saw quadrotors, a cool inverted pendulum, espresso making robots, and more. Special thanks to everyone who brought a weird robot!
May 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Something that really stood out to me this ICRA was the diversity of robots in Expo hall. For a while there I’ve been seeing only humanoids and quadrupeds. This year I saw quadrotors, a cool inverted pendulum, espresso making robots, and more. Special thanks to everyone who brought a weird robot!
Reposted by Katherine Liu
📢 Check out the list of accepted papers for Robotics: Science and Systems 2025: roboticsconference.org/program/pape...
📜 You can also find the complete conference program here: roboticsconference.org/program/over...
🌴 We look forward to seeing you at #RSS2025 in Los Angeles June 21st-25th!
📜 You can also find the complete conference program here: roboticsconference.org/program/over...
🌴 We look forward to seeing you at #RSS2025 in Los Angeles June 21st-25th!
Accepted Papers | Robotics: Science and Systems
RSS 2025, June 21, 2025 - June 25, 2025, Los Angeles, California
roboticsconference.org
May 17, 2025 at 5:27 AM
📢 Check out the list of accepted papers for Robotics: Science and Systems 2025: roboticsconference.org/program/pape...
📜 You can also find the complete conference program here: roboticsconference.org/program/over...
🌴 We look forward to seeing you at #RSS2025 in Los Angeles June 21st-25th!
📜 You can also find the complete conference program here: roboticsconference.org/program/over...
🌴 We look forward to seeing you at #RSS2025 in Los Angeles June 21st-25th!
May 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Reposted by Katherine Liu
Wrote a bit this morning on my own early reflections on teaching this class - in short, ML evaluation has been a neglected sore spot of the field since its inception & the class opened all of us up to embracing the complexity of this problem!
Excited to see this course evolve in future iterations.
Excited to see this course evolve in future iterations.
Guest post! @rajiinio.bsky.social reflects on our machine learning evaluation class (and the chaos of co-teaching with me).
To Measure Is to Know
Deb's initial reflections on our machine learning evaluation course.
www.argmin.net
April 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Wrote a bit this morning on my own early reflections on teaching this class - in short, ML evaluation has been a neglected sore spot of the field since its inception & the class opened all of us up to embracing the complexity of this problem!
Excited to see this course evolve in future iterations.
Excited to see this course evolve in future iterations.
I use Scholar Inbox to get really targeted paper recommendations -- I definitely recommend trying it out if you haven't yet!
Excited to share that today our paper recommender platform www.scholar-inbox.com has reached 20k users! We hope to reach 100k by the end of the year.. Lots of new features are being worked on currently and rolled out soon.
January 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I use Scholar Inbox to get really targeted paper recommendations -- I definitely recommend trying it out if you haven't yet!
Reposted by Katherine Liu
Computer Vision: Fact & Fiction is now available on YouTube 🙌🏼 I made a playlist for it with the seven chapters. Enjoy this time capsule from two decades ago!
December 19, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Computer Vision: Fact & Fiction is now available on YouTube 🙌🏼 I made a playlist for it with the seven chapters. Enjoy this time capsule from two decades ago!
The debaters (Harold Soh, Jeannette Bogh, Nadia Figueroa, Chad Jenkins) did a great job talking strong stances. Watch until the end to hear what they actually personally think. And unsurprisingly, @ken-goldberg.bsky.social was a wonderful moderator!
The "Generative AI will make a lot of traditional robotics approaches obsolete" debate was pretty lively!
Just discovered the recordings of the debates this year at ICRA. As usual, it was a very popular event. It's easily often the highlight of the conference for me, very cool that they're uploaded! I wish an event of this type was held at every conference.
November 30, 2024 at 5:55 PM
The debaters (Harold Soh, Jeannette Bogh, Nadia Figueroa, Chad Jenkins) did a great job talking strong stances. Watch until the end to hear what they actually personally think. And unsurprisingly, @ken-goldberg.bsky.social was a wonderful moderator!
Just discovered the recordings of the debates this year at ICRA. As usual, it was a very popular event. It's easily often the highlight of the conference for me, very cool that they're uploaded! I wish an event of this type was held at every conference.
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
November 30, 2024 at 4:41 AM
Just discovered the recordings of the debates this year at ICRA. As usual, it was a very popular event. It's easily often the highlight of the conference for me, very cool that they're uploaded! I wish an event of this type was held at every conference.
This podcast, about letting a chatbot + voice clone armed with information about you loose in your personal life, was an uncomfortable listen.
radiolab.org/podcast/shel...
radiolab.org/podcast/shel...
Shell Game
One man secretly hands off more and more of his life to an AI voice clone.
radiolab.org
November 26, 2024 at 5:19 PM
This podcast, about letting a chatbot + voice clone armed with information about you loose in your personal life, was an uncomfortable listen.
radiolab.org/podcast/shel...
radiolab.org/podcast/shel...
Reposted by Katherine Liu
Let's make AI more inclusive.
At @huggingface.bsky.social we'll launch a huge community sprint soon to build high-quality training datasets for many languages.
We're looking for Language Leads to help with outreach.
Find your language and nominate yourself:
forms.gle/iAJVauUQ3FN8...
At @huggingface.bsky.social we'll launch a huge community sprint soon to build high-quality training datasets for many languages.
We're looking for Language Leads to help with outreach.
Find your language and nominate yourself:
forms.gle/iAJVauUQ3FN8...
November 26, 2024 at 6:29 AM
Let's make AI more inclusive.
At @huggingface.bsky.social we'll launch a huge community sprint soon to build high-quality training datasets for many languages.
We're looking for Language Leads to help with outreach.
Find your language and nominate yourself:
forms.gle/iAJVauUQ3FN8...
At @huggingface.bsky.social we'll launch a huge community sprint soon to build high-quality training datasets for many languages.
We're looking for Language Leads to help with outreach.
Find your language and nominate yourself:
forms.gle/iAJVauUQ3FN8...
Reposted by Katherine Liu
Just a heads up to everyone: @deep-mind.bsky.social is unfortunately a fake account and has been reported. Please do not follow it nor repost anything from it.
November 25, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Just a heads up to everyone: @deep-mind.bsky.social is unfortunately a fake account and has been reported. Please do not follow it nor repost anything from it.
Reposted by Katherine Liu
Wonderful blog post by Matt Mason: mtmason.com/the-beetle-r...
Quote from it: “... When humans have to handle things not designed for their hands, it’s all tools! Look at their dentists and surgeons. Look at their watchmakers. ...”
Quote from it: “... When humans have to handle things not designed for their hands, it’s all tools! Look at their dentists and surgeons. Look at their watchmakers. ...”
The Beetle Roboticists: A Parable - Matthew T. Mason
How do we assess ideas about humanoids, without our anthropocentric bias? Maybe if the ideas were being pushed by another species. Beetles?
mtmason.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Wonderful blog post by Matt Mason: mtmason.com/the-beetle-r...
Quote from it: “... When humans have to handle things not designed for their hands, it’s all tools! Look at their dentists and surgeons. Look at their watchmakers. ...”
Quote from it: “... When humans have to handle things not designed for their hands, it’s all tools! Look at their dentists and surgeons. Look at their watchmakers. ...”
Reposted by Katherine Liu
We are in the process of editing a SLAM handbook, to be published by Cambridge University Press, with many *stellar* contributors. Part 1 is available as an online draft for public comments. Help us find bugs/problems!
Link to release repo is here: lnkd.in/gZhTkaxb
Link to release repo is here: lnkd.in/gZhTkaxb
GitHub - SLAM-Handbook-contributors/slam-handbook-public-release: Release repo for our SLAM Handbook
Release repo for our SLAM Handbook. Contribute to SLAM-Handbook-contributors/slam-handbook-public-release development by creating an account on GitHub.
lnkd.in
November 16, 2024 at 3:45 PM
We are in the process of editing a SLAM handbook, to be published by Cambridge University Press, with many *stellar* contributors. Part 1 is available as an online draft for public comments. Help us find bugs/problems!
Link to release repo is here: lnkd.in/gZhTkaxb
Link to release repo is here: lnkd.in/gZhTkaxb
What cool applications of diffusion have folks seen outside of the popular ones like text-to-image, image-to-3D, Diffusion Policy, etc?
November 24, 2024 at 5:29 PM
What cool applications of diffusion have folks seen outside of the popular ones like text-to-image, image-to-3D, Diffusion Policy, etc?
Reposted by Katherine Liu
MIT announced that it would eliminate tuition costs next fall for all undergraduate students whose families earn less than $200,000 per year — following a national movement to try to make higher education more accessible.
M.I.T. to Offer Free Tuition to Families Earning Less Than $200,000
For students whose families earn less than $100,000 per year, the school will also other costs, including housing, dining, fees and an allowance for books and personal expenses.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2024 at 1:08 AM
MIT announced that it would eliminate tuition costs next fall for all undergraduate students whose families earn less than $200,000 per year — following a national movement to try to make higher education more accessible.
I created a List to keep track of conferences in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Robotics:
November 22, 2024 at 1:55 AM
I created a List to keep track of conferences in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Robotics:
Reposted by Katherine Liu
NeurIPS Conference is now Live on Bluesky!
-NeurIPS2024 Communication Chairs
-NeurIPS2024 Communication Chairs
November 22, 2024 at 1:33 AM
NeurIPS Conference is now Live on Bluesky!
-NeurIPS2024 Communication Chairs
-NeurIPS2024 Communication Chairs
Reposted by Katherine Liu
Full CoRL conference recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0joZ...
Someone remind me to watch this later
Someone remind me to watch this later
CoRL 2024 Day 1 9:00-10:30
YouTube video by Conference on Robot Learning
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Full CoRL conference recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0joZ...
Someone remind me to watch this later
Someone remind me to watch this later