Matías Mattamala
@mmattamala.bsky.social
Chilean roboticist • Research Associate at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh • Prev: UOXF, ETHZ, UChile • Robot perception, navigation, and autonomy
🌐 http://mmattamala.github.io
🌐 http://mmattamala.github.io
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ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
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Our paper OpenLex3D is accepted to NeurIPS!
tldr; a new benchmark for open-vocabulary scene understanding methods.
Page: openlex3d.github.io
Thanks to Sacha Morin, Martin Büchner
@mmattamala.bsky.social, @kumaraditya-gupta.bsky.social,
Abhinav Valada, Liam Paull & @mauricefallon.bsky.social
tldr; a new benchmark for open-vocabulary scene understanding methods.
Page: openlex3d.github.io
Thanks to Sacha Morin, Martin Büchner
@mmattamala.bsky.social, @kumaraditya-gupta.bsky.social,
Abhinav Valada, Liam Paull & @mauricefallon.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Our paper OpenLex3D is accepted to NeurIPS!
tldr; a new benchmark for open-vocabulary scene understanding methods.
Page: openlex3d.github.io
Thanks to Sacha Morin, Martin Büchner
@mmattamala.bsky.social, @kumaraditya-gupta.bsky.social,
Abhinav Valada, Liam Paull & @mauricefallon.bsky.social
tldr; a new benchmark for open-vocabulary scene understanding methods.
Page: openlex3d.github.io
Thanks to Sacha Morin, Martin Büchner
@mmattamala.bsky.social, @kumaraditya-gupta.bsky.social,
Abhinav Valada, Liam Paull & @mauricefallon.bsky.social
The new macOS is stupidly round
September 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The new macOS is stupidly round
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Colleagues based at UK universities: please sign and share this letter to support Gazan students coming to study in the UK, in order to request Governmental deferral of the biometric data requirement and safe evacuation.
Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
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July 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Colleagues based at UK universities: please sign and share this letter to support Gazan students coming to study in the UK, in order to request Governmental deferral of the biometric data requirement and safe evacuation.
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and a slide that explains illegal data torrenting by Meta, i also had to remove
In the end, it was either remove everything that names names (big tech particularly) and remove logos or cancel my talk.
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In the end, it was either remove everything that names names (big tech particularly) and remove logos or cancel my talk.
2/
July 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
and a slide that explains illegal data torrenting by Meta, i also had to remove
In the end, it was either remove everything that names names (big tech particularly) and remove logos or cancel my talk.
2/
In the end, it was either remove everything that names names (big tech particularly) and remove logos or cancel my talk.
2/
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a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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my keynote happening in a few mins. registration here to stream it
aiforgood.itu.int/summit25/reg...
aiforgood.itu.int/summit25/reg...
July 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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'Vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
July 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
'Vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
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I got tired of the nonsense some AI leaders were coming out with, and so I wrote this for @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
The dangers of so-called AI experts believing their own hype
Beware the tech leaders making grandiose statements about artificial intelligence. They have lost sight of reality, says Philip Ball
www.newscientist.com
July 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I got tired of the nonsense some AI leaders were coming out with, and so I wrote this for @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
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1/2 Headline wrong: not "first". Robot Soccer has been an international competition for 30+ years. People newly aware of something often think it has just happened now and progress will be fast. See the ten+ year old photo in my second skeet. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
China hosts first fully autonomous AI robot football match
Footage of three-a-side game shows humanoids struggling to kick the ball or stay upright
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
1/2 Headline wrong: not "first". Robot Soccer has been an international competition for 30+ years. People newly aware of something often think it has just happened now and progress will be fast. See the ten+ year old photo in my second skeet. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Just finished reading this well-researched and well-written piece. From a cursory look at Peter Putnam's papers, it seems that he anticipated ideas like neural Darwinism, enactivism, and Robert Rosen's notion of emergence relative to a model by creation of new observables. www.peterputnam.org
June 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Just finished reading this well-researched and well-written piece. From a cursory look at Peter Putnam's papers, it seems that he anticipated ideas like neural Darwinism, enactivism, and Robert Rosen's notion of emergence relative to a model by creation of new observables. www.peterputnam.org
This week I started as a Research Associate (aka Postdoc) at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social.
I'll be working with @sramamoorthy.bsky.social in the new Centre for AI for Assistive Autonomy.
Let me know if you are around :)
I'll be working with @sramamoorthy.bsky.social in the new Centre for AI for Assistive Autonomy.
Let me know if you are around :)
June 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This week I started as a Research Associate (aka Postdoc) at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social.
I'll be working with @sramamoorthy.bsky.social in the new Centre for AI for Assistive Autonomy.
Let me know if you are around :)
I'll be working with @sramamoorthy.bsky.social in the new Centre for AI for Assistive Autonomy.
Let me know if you are around :)
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Reminder that the MSCA postdoctoral program exists. If you have a PhD and want to work in a European lab, you have until September to apply. Just contact them now.
ec.europa.eu/info/funding...
ec.europa.eu/info/funding...
ec.europa.eu
June 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Reminder that the MSCA postdoctoral program exists. If you have a PhD and want to work in a European lab, you have until September to apply. Just contact them now.
ec.europa.eu/info/funding...
ec.europa.eu/info/funding...
I wrote an article for The Conversation analysing the robot horse presented by Kawasaki :)
Kawasaki has unveiled a concept robotic horse, but can it actually be achieved?
A robot that you ride like a horse is being developed. It will stretch current limits of engineering
Kawasaki has unveiled a concept robotic horse, but can it actually be achieved?
tcnv.link
April 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I wrote an article for The Conversation analysing the robot horse presented by Kawasaki :)
This is very cool work, and reminds me of some of the objectives of the LAGR project.
It's also pretty impressive to see robot experiments with different baseline methods in closed loop!
It's also pretty impressive to see robot experiments with different baseline methods in closed loop!
Long Range Navigator (LRN) 🧭— an approach to extend planning horizons for off-road navigation given no prior maps. Using vision LRN makes longer-range decisions by spotting navigation frontiers far beyond the range of metric maps.
personalrobotics.github.io/lrn/
🧵1/6
personalrobotics.github.io/lrn/
🧵1/6
April 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This is very cool work, and reminds me of some of the objectives of the LAGR project.
It's also pretty impressive to see robot experiments with different baseline methods in closed loop!
It's also pretty impressive to see robot experiments with different baseline methods in closed loop!
Wholesome stuff
Here's a nice "proof without words":
The sum of the squares of several positive values can never be bigger than the square of their sum.
This picture helps make sense of how ℓ₁ and ℓ₂ norms regularize and sparsify solutions (resp.). [1/n]
The sum of the squares of several positive values can never be bigger than the square of their sum.
This picture helps make sense of how ℓ₁ and ℓ₂ norms regularize and sparsify solutions (resp.). [1/n]
April 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Wholesome stuff
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Very cool paper showing that Crows can spot the odd shape out of a set where all other shapes are similar.
@scinews.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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@scinews.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Crows recognize geometric regularity
Crows spontaneously identify intruder quadrilaterals among arbitrary shapes, excelling with regular shapes over irregular ones.
www.science.org
April 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Very cool paper showing that Crows can spot the odd shape out of a set where all other shapes are similar.
@scinews.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🐦⬛ 🐦⬛ 🐦⬛ 🐦⬛
@scinews.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🐦⬛ 🐦⬛ 🐦⬛ 🐦⬛
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Here is how I have been comparing the two big hype phenomena in AI and robotics, in my recent talks. Spoiler alert: the hype is unfounded.
April 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Here is how I have been comparing the two big hype phenomena in AI and robotics, in my recent talks. Spoiler alert: the hype is unfounded.
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Don’t remember where I saw this library flyer a while back but it’s great
April 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Don’t remember where I saw this library flyer a while back but it’s great
It's never too late to repost that the part 2 of the SLAM handbook is out!
There are really cool contributions from my colleagues (as well as the leg odometry chapter we wrote with Marco Camurri)
There are really cool contributions from my colleagues (as well as the leg odometry chapter we wrote with Marco Camurri)
Part 2 of SLAM handbook is out for public comments! let us know what you think :-) Issue tracker on GitHub awaits! Link: github.com/SLAM-Handboo...
April 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It's never too late to repost that the part 2 of the SLAM handbook is out!
There are really cool contributions from my colleagues (as well as the leg odometry chapter we wrote with Marco Camurri)
There are really cool contributions from my colleagues (as well as the leg odometry chapter we wrote with Marco Camurri)
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It’s always “We launched these tardigrades into space!” “We froze them to absolute zero!” “We threw them into an erupting volcano!”
Never “We took these tardigrades on a holiday. They’re getting tiny massages and sipping little umbrella drinks on the beach.”
Never “We took these tardigrades on a holiday. They’re getting tiny massages and sipping little umbrella drinks on the beach.”
April 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It’s always “We launched these tardigrades into space!” “We froze them to absolute zero!” “We threw them into an erupting volcano!”
Never “We took these tardigrades on a holiday. They’re getting tiny massages and sipping little umbrella drinks on the beach.”
Never “We took these tardigrades on a holiday. They’re getting tiny massages and sipping little umbrella drinks on the beach.”
“Calling Bullshit” by @carlbergstrom.com and @jevinwest.bsky.social is an awesome book.
It’s really fun and enjoyable to read (I really liked the writing style), and it’s full of knowledge everyone should know about.
It’s really fun and enjoyable to read (I really liked the writing style), and it’s full of knowledge everyone should know about.
April 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
“Calling Bullshit” by @carlbergstrom.com and @jevinwest.bsky.social is an awesome book.
It’s really fun and enjoyable to read (I really liked the writing style), and it’s full of knowledge everyone should know about.
It’s really fun and enjoyable to read (I really liked the writing style), and it’s full of knowledge everyone should know about.
This is a great Sunday read
I wrote a very long blog post about AI writing. I hope you'll read it.
meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...
meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...
The mental tyranny of AI writing
An arduously long blog post
meresophistry.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This is a great Sunday read
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Benjamin Mottis is Global Research Community Manager at ANYbotics, where he has been working on expanding the ANYmal Research Community and helping researchers push the boundaries of robotics.
Listen to our chat here: www.robottalk.org/2025/03/28/e... #Robots #Robotics #Industry
Listen to our chat here: www.robottalk.org/2025/03/28/e... #Robots #Robotics #Industry
March 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Benjamin Mottis is Global Research Community Manager at ANYbotics, where he has been working on expanding the ANYmal Research Community and helping researchers push the boundaries of robotics.
Listen to our chat here: www.robottalk.org/2025/03/28/e... #Robots #Robotics #Industry
Listen to our chat here: www.robottalk.org/2025/03/28/e... #Robots #Robotics #Industry