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Learning Agile Striker Skills for Humanoid Soccer Robots from Noisy Sensory Input
Zifan Xu, Myoungkyu Seo, Dongmyeong Lee +8
Learning fast and robust ball-kicking skills is a critical capability for humanoid soccer robots, yet it remains a challenging problem due to the need for rapid leg swings, postura…
The Essentials of AI for Life and Society: A Full-Scale AI Literacy Course Accessible to All
Zifan Xu, Kristen Procko, Michael Munje +4
In Fall 2023, we introduced a new AI Literacy class called The Essentials of AI for Life and Society (CS 109), a one-credit, seminar course consisting mainly of guest lectures, whi…
Searching in Space and Time: Unified Memory-Action Loops for Open-World Object Retrieval
Taijing Chen, Sateesh Kumar, Junhong Xu +3
Service robots must retrieve objects in dynamic, open-world settings where requests may reference attributes ("the red mug"), spatial context ("the mug on the table"), or past stat…
Terrain Costmap Generation via Scaled Preference Conditioning
Luisa Mao, Garrett Warnell, Peter Stone +1
Successful autonomous robot navigation in off-road domains requires the ability to generate high-quality terrain costmaps that are able to both generalize well over a wide variety…
ComposableNav: Instruction-Following Navigation in Dynamic Environments via Composable Diffusion
Zichao Hu, Chen Tang, Michael J. Munje +6
This paper considers the problem of enabling robots to navigate dynamic environments while following instructions. The challenge lies in the combinatorial nature of instruction spe…
SocialNav-SUB: Benchmarking VLMs for Scene Understanding in Social Robot Navigation
Michael J. Munje, Chen Tang, Shuijing Liu +6
Robot navigation in dynamic, human-centered environments requires socially-compliant decisions grounded in robust scene understanding. Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit…
The Essentials of AI for Life and Society: An AI Literacy Course for the University Community
Joydeep Biswas, Don Fussell, Peter Stone +4
We describe the development of a one-credit course to promote AI literacy at The University of Texas at Austin. In response to a call for the rapid deployment of class to serve a b…