Robot Manipulation and Embodied AI Talk at METU ROMER

TLDR

Organized a meetup and presented my robotic arm project to Masters students working on Robot Manipulation. Discussed VLA stack improvements and Reinforcement Learning integration.

Venue: METU ROMER Center for Robotics and AI, Middle East Technical University
Date: 2024

Detailed

I organized a meetup at the METU ROMER Center for Robotics and AI where I presented my robotic arm project to a group of Masters students also working on Robot Manipulation. We had engaging discussions about embodied AI and how to push the field forward.

Topics we covered:

  • Improving existing VLA (Vision Language Action) stacks
  • Integrating Reinforcement Learning policies into manipulation workflows
  • Designing hardware that improves data collection pipelines for manipulation tasks
  • Live demonstrations with my robotic arms

Photos

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