Our next robotics seminar speaker is Prof. Abhishek Gupta, Assistant Professor at the University of Washington.
Speaker: Abhishek Gupta
Date: 03/06/2026
Time: 11:00 AM EST
Location: CS 105
We are looking forward to seeing you there! Please stay tuned for more details.
Abstract:
This talk will delve into the workflow of building robot learning methods powered by large-scale physics simulation. While the promise of simulation is low-effort data generation that scales cheaply with human effort, the reality is often not as simple,
with considerable human effort required to actually make simulation a useful tool for real-world robotic manipulation. In this talk, I will study how to develop methods that explicitly reduce manual human effort in enabling simulation as a data generation
tool - from environment and behavior generation, to enabling downstream transfer to the real-world. In doing so, I will outline an effort-efficient path to leveraging simulation as a data source for robot learning - hopefully to make robotics easier for lazy
researchers like me!
Best Regards,
Robotics Seminar Committee