Robotics Tech Talk with NVIDIA

Curious about the world of robotics? Join our virtual session with Arsalan Mousavian, Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA, who will present their research in the field of robot manipulation. Learn how their robots can deal with a large variety of objects, and how their methods can generalize well to different scenes, viewpoints, and lighting changes.

Dec 22, 2021, 5:00 – 6:15 PM

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Key Themes

Machine Learning

About this event

There is a growing interest in using data-driven methods to scale up manipulation capabilities of robots for handling a large variety of objects. Many of these methods are oblivious to the notion of objects and they learn monolithic policies from the whole scene in image space. As a result, they don’t generalize well to different scenes, viewpoints, and lighting changes. In addition, these models cannot be combined with other components and constraints without re-training. In this talk, Arsalan Mousavian will present our approach for learning object centric models trained on 3D depth data. He will show how these approaches are combined with each other to accomplish tasks on unseen objects and environments. In particular, he will cover our works on grasping and segmenting unknown objects, obstacle avoidance, and task planning for unknown object rearrangement task.

When

When

Wednesday, December 22, 2021
5:00 PM – 6:15 PM UTC

Agenda

5:00 PMWelcome
5:05 PMSpeaker Session with Arsalan Mousavian
5:55 PMQ&A
6:05 PMWrap-up

Speaker

  • Arsalan Mousavian

    NVIDIA

    Senior Research Scientist

Organizers

  • Sarper Melik Ertekin

    ETH Zurich

    GDSC Lead

  • Arthur Serres

    ETH Zürich

    GDSC Lead

  • Bahar Açılan

    ETH Zürich

    GDSC Lead

  • August Bøgh Rønberg

    Core Team Member

  • Simon Sure

    ETH Zürich

    Core Team Member

  • Annina Oswald

    ETH Zurich

    Core Team Member

  • Marcel Pokorski

    ETH Zurich

    Core Team Member

  • Nicola Stella

    Core Team Member

  • JB Conan

    Core Team Member

  • Elina Teplygina

    Core Team Member

  • Léon Noirclerc

    ETH

    Core Team Member

  • Anirudhh RAMESH

    Core Team Member

  • Anna Stawiska

    Core Team Member

  • Athena Schumacher

    Core Team Member

  • Hugo Fabrègues

    Core Team Member

  • Eric Nerger

    ETH Zürich

    Core Team Member

  • Gaukhar Yesmurzayeva

    Core Team Member

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