Zahi Kakish
@zmk5.bsky.social
Robotics Researcher @ Sandia
Co-Founder of Sol Robotics.
I like robots and cooking. ن
zmk5.github.io
Co-Founder of Sol Robotics.
I like robots and cooking. ن
zmk5.github.io
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Introducing ✨Posed DROID✨, results of our efforts at automatic post-hoc calibration of a large-scale robotics manipulation dataset.
Try it out at: droid-dataset.github.io
Learn more at:
🌐 arXiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2403.12945
📄 Blog: medium.com/p/4ddfc45361d3
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Try it out at: droid-dataset.github.io
Learn more at:
🌐 arXiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2403.12945
📄 Blog: medium.com/p/4ddfc45361d3
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April 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Introducing ✨Posed DROID✨, results of our efforts at automatic post-hoc calibration of a large-scale robotics manipulation dataset.
Try it out at: droid-dataset.github.io
Learn more at:
🌐 arXiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2403.12945
📄 Blog: medium.com/p/4ddfc45361d3
🧵 1/n
Try it out at: droid-dataset.github.io
Learn more at:
🌐 arXiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2403.12945
📄 Blog: medium.com/p/4ddfc45361d3
🧵 1/n
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The new foundation model from physical intelligence - pi-0.5 - works zero-shot in multiple homes. They tested at airbnbs around san fransisco. I also really love the robot design.
blog: www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pi05
blog: www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pi05
April 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The new foundation model from physical intelligence - pi-0.5 - works zero-shot in multiple homes. They tested at airbnbs around san fransisco. I also really love the robot design.
blog: www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pi05
blog: www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pi05
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Ideally, when I unbox a new robot, I just want to teach it the way I would my kid, by giving it a couple demonstrations -- not by teleop, not by endless prompt engineering. So, how can we use human videos to teach robots how to perform tasks in new environments?
www.robot-learning.uk/r-plus-x
www.robot-learning.uk/r-plus-x
April 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Ideally, when I unbox a new robot, I just want to teach it the way I would my kid, by giving it a couple demonstrations -- not by teleop, not by endless prompt engineering. So, how can we use human videos to teach robots how to perform tasks in new environments?
www.robot-learning.uk/r-plus-x
www.robot-learning.uk/r-plus-x
Honestly, no one should have to do this. Isn't this what robots and machines are for?
Really a failure of imagination by simpletons in the white house.
Really a failure of imagination by simpletons in the white house.
Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
April 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Honestly, no one should have to do this. Isn't this what robots and machines are for?
Really a failure of imagination by simpletons in the white house.
Really a failure of imagination by simpletons in the white house.
Blood Meridian is way more violent and gory than I had anticipated...
March 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Blood Meridian is way more violent and gory than I had anticipated...
Ramadan Kareem to my Muslim friends!
March 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Ramadan Kareem to my Muslim friends!
If inference is good enough this could be great for robotics applications.
Framework Desktop is a compact, modular desktop PC with AMD Strix Halo #Framework, #FrameworkDesktop, #Minipc, #Modular, #StrixHalo
Framework Desktop is a compact, modular desktop PC with AMD Strix Halo
After four years of producing modular, repairable, and upgradeable laptops, Framework is branching out into desktops with the introduction of a new Framework Desktop computer powered by an AMD Strix Halo processor with support for up to a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 16-core, 32-thread processor with 40-core RDNA 3.5 graphics. While it's hardly the first desktop computer designed to be repairable or upgradeable (that's kind of a defining feature of…
liliputing.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
If inference is good enough this could be great for robotics applications.
One thing I think a lot of tech enthusiasts will need to accept is that the idea of having separate CPU and RAM for small form factors is a thing of the past.
The benefits of bundling them are really outweighing having them separate.
The benefits of bundling them are really outweighing having them separate.
February 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
One thing I think a lot of tech enthusiasts will need to accept is that the idea of having separate CPU and RAM for small form factors is a thing of the past.
The benefits of bundling them are really outweighing having them separate.
The benefits of bundling them are really outweighing having them separate.
Reposted by Zahi Kakish
The Trump administration's efforts to slash research funding have US graduate students, postdocs and other early-career scientists fearing for their careers. Some might leave the country -- or abandon research altogether.
https://go.nature.com/43ao2zq
https://go.nature.com/43ao2zq
Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science
As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.
go.nature.com
February 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The Trump administration's efforts to slash research funding have US graduate students, postdocs and other early-career scientists fearing for their careers. Some might leave the country -- or abandon research altogether.
https://go.nature.com/43ao2zq
https://go.nature.com/43ao2zq
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Time to label some data...
this is genius, apple released an 8 hour mix of the severance theme song as an ambient track to use while you get shit done
i wish they’d add this to apple music
i wish they’d add this to apple music
Severance — Music To Refine To feat. ODESZA | Apple TV+
YouTube video by Apple TV
youtu.be
February 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Time to label some data...
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New golden age of reinforcement learning and this time it seems deserved (as someone who thought it was bs last time we did this)
Very happy to show that we can do RL finetuning on 405B models with open-source code, beat Llama 405B instruct with their base model, and beat DeepSeek V3 too. Enjoy building off this teams hard work.
Here's Tulu 3 405B. A holiday present from @hamishivi.bsky.social @vwxyzjn.bsky.social and team.
Here's Tulu 3 405B. A holiday present from @hamishivi.bsky.social @vwxyzjn.bsky.social and team.
January 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
New golden age of reinforcement learning and this time it seems deserved (as someone who thought it was bs last time we did this)
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🚨 BIG MILESTONE! 🚨
@deepseek_ai R1 brings us closer to robots with reasoning abilities 🤖✨
Inspired by RL at scale, we hit highest rewards in just 5 mins of async + distributed RL training on robotics task! 🏆⚡
It used to take hours on H100 before. Game changer. 🚀
@deepseek_ai R1 brings us closer to robots with reasoning abilities 🤖✨
Inspired by RL at scale, we hit highest rewards in just 5 mins of async + distributed RL training on robotics task! 🏆⚡
It used to take hours on H100 before. Game changer. 🚀
January 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
🚨 BIG MILESTONE! 🚨
@deepseek_ai R1 brings us closer to robots with reasoning abilities 🤖✨
Inspired by RL at scale, we hit highest rewards in just 5 mins of async + distributed RL training on robotics task! 🏆⚡
It used to take hours on H100 before. Game changer. 🚀
@deepseek_ai R1 brings us closer to robots with reasoning abilities 🤖✨
Inspired by RL at scale, we hit highest rewards in just 5 mins of async + distributed RL training on robotics task! 🏆⚡
It used to take hours on H100 before. Game changer. 🚀
Just learned that if Lunar New Year celebrates your zodiac sign then you must wear red on Lunar New Year or something bad would happen to you.
Looks like I have to wear red this week lol
Looks like I have to wear red this week lol
January 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Just learned that if Lunar New Year celebrates your zodiac sign then you must wear red on Lunar New Year or something bad would happen to you.
Looks like I have to wear red this week lol
Looks like I have to wear red this week lol
Reposted by Zahi Kakish
Very cool demonstration of in-context representation learning. This figure says everything.
arxiv.org/abs/2501.00070
arxiv.org/abs/2501.00070
January 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Very cool demonstration of in-context representation learning. This figure says everything.
arxiv.org/abs/2501.00070
arxiv.org/abs/2501.00070
It's funny how reddit subreddits for certain topics either get super obsessed with the topic/product or hate the topic/product with a passion.
Like going on the Firefox subreddit, it's why these ppl even post in that sub if they hate it this much...
Like going on the Firefox subreddit, it's why these ppl even post in that sub if they hate it this much...
December 7, 2024 at 3:15 PM
It's funny how reddit subreddits for certain topics either get super obsessed with the topic/product or hate the topic/product with a passion.
Like going on the Firefox subreddit, it's why these ppl even post in that sub if they hate it this much...
Like going on the Firefox subreddit, it's why these ppl even post in that sub if they hate it this much...
Reposted by Zahi Kakish
Introducing Stretch AI - a new open-source suite of tools, tutorials, and reference code to explore and build AI-enabled home robot applications with Stretch 3! Check it out at github.com/hello-robot/stretch_ai and learn more from @cpaxton.bsky.social below!
December 3, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Introducing Stretch AI - a new open-source suite of tools, tutorials, and reference code to explore and build AI-enabled home robot applications with Stretch 3! Check it out at github.com/hello-robot/stretch_ai and learn more from @cpaxton.bsky.social below!
This is what it will take to make America more of a manufacturing hub.
Korea employs 1 industrial robot for every 10 human workers, the highest density in the world (3.5x more than the US). newsweek.com/south-korea-...
@newsweek.com
@newsweek.com
South Korea has robots as 10 percent of workforce
It is hoped South Korea's robot prowess will help offset its declining fertility rate, the world's lowest.
newsweek.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:13 PM
This is what it will take to make America more of a manufacturing hub.
It's remarkable how OSU shits the bed whenever they face Michigan...
November 30, 2024 at 8:23 PM
It's remarkable how OSU shits the bed whenever they face Michigan...
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Anyone in the control theory community going to IEEE CDC willing to help us out to present a paper for us? Me and our collaborators are having visa issues.
I will provide the slides. The work is at the intersection of diffusion based generative modeling and control theory: arxiv.org/abs/2402.02297
I will provide the slides. The work is at the intersection of diffusion based generative modeling and control theory: arxiv.org/abs/2402.02297
Denoising Diffusion-Based Control of Nonlinear Systems
We propose a novel approach based on Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) to control nonlinear dynamical systems. DDPMs are the state-of-art of generative models that have achieved success...
arxiv.org
November 25, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Anyone in the control theory community going to IEEE CDC willing to help us out to present a paper for us? Me and our collaborators are having visa issues.
I will provide the slides. The work is at the intersection of diffusion based generative modeling and control theory: arxiv.org/abs/2402.02297
I will provide the slides. The work is at the intersection of diffusion based generative modeling and control theory: arxiv.org/abs/2402.02297
It's funny how obvious it is when guys skip leg day lol
November 24, 2024 at 1:28 AM
It's funny how obvious it is when guys skip leg day lol
LETS GOOO BROWNNSSS
two men are sitting next to each other and one of them is yelling
ALT: two men are sitting next to each other and one of them is yelling
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2024 at 4:37 AM
LETS GOOO BROWNNSSS
Why can't the browns play like this all the time???
November 22, 2024 at 3:38 AM
Why can't the browns play like this all the time???