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SUMMARY:Spring 2025 GRASP on Robotics: Phillip Isola\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, “Robots and Artificial Life from Visual Foundation Models”
DESCRIPTION:This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. \nABSTRACT\nI will talk about two ways we can design agents with the help of powerful vision/graphics models. In the first project\, LucidSim\, we augment a traditional robotics simulation engine (MuJoCo) with visual detail from an image generative model. The generator adds diversity and realism to the barebones MuJoCo content\, and results in a RGB-only policy trained entirely in sim that generalizes zero-shot to the real world. In the second project\, ASAL\, we use a visual recognition model to search for artificial lifeforms that display distinct and interesting behaviors. This process can discover cellular automata that are open-ended like Conway’s Game of Life\, particle swarms that flock like Boids\, and more.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/spring-2025-grasp-on-robotics-phillip-isola-massachusetts-institute-of-technology-robots-and-artificial-life-from-visual-foundation-models/
LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="General Robotics%2C Automation%2C Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab":MAILTO:grasplab@seas.upenn.edu
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