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Sundae Robotics 11: Beyond the Gripper — Teaching Robots Dexterity Through Touch, Vision, and Play
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- Sun, Nov 22
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- San Francisco
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- Founders, Inc. Events
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🤖🍨 Grab a sundae and join Sundae Robotics, a private, invite-only Sunday series bringing together robotics researchers, founders, and builders working at the frontier of physical intelligence.
Sundae Robotics 11 Dexterous Manipulation, Tactile Perception & Robot Learning Featured Talk: Beyond the Gripper — Teaching Robots Dexterity Through Touch, Vision, and Play
Beyond the Gripper: Teaching Robots Dexterity Through Touch, Vision, and Play
Keynote: Akash Sharma Research Scientist, Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics · CMU Robotics Institute PhD
Robots that impress in demos still mostly use parallel-jaw grippers, and true in-hand dexterity remains out of reach. The two standard routes each face fundamental limitations: demonstrations often force humans to act like robots, while simulation cannot faithfully model touch or real-world vision.
In this talk, Akash will present four ingredients that aim to close those gaps.
First, he will introduce PTLD, which learns tactile policies without ever simulating a tactile sensor by distilling a privileged simulation-trained teacher on real hardware.
He will then discuss INVAR, which learns visual invariance once from clean and randomized simulation pairs, allowing policies trained on clean simulation to transfer zero-shot.
Next, Akash will present CARD, which retargets human video, glove, and motion-capture demonstrations according to...
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