Sam Kriegman
@Kriegmerica
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Assistant professor of computer science, chemical and biological engineering, and mechanical engineering @NorthwesternU.
Chicago, IL
Joined November 2014
RT @todd_murphey: My ICRA Keynote: “Robot Learning in Isolation” . This keynote talk is about technical paths for systems that do not have….
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RT @pathak2206: Tired of tuning PPO or blaming it on reward, task design, etc.? Introducing EPO -- our second (and hopefully final :) attem….
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RT @DFloreano: How the natural world is inspiring the robot eyes of the future @EPFL_en.
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Nature - Intelligent machine vision could get a boost from unconventional hardware design.
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RT @arthurallshire: our new system trains humanoid robots using data from cell phone videos, enabling skills such as climbing stairs and si….
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RT @Princeton: Material? Robot? It’s a metabot. "You can transform between a material and a robot, and it is controllable with an external….
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RT @Sara_Imari: Online this afternoon … a visionary project on the possibilities of alien life 👽led by @claire_i_webb , featuring planets i….
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Embodied agents. are evolving at #ICLR2025 🏝️. on Fri Apr 25 at 3-5:30pm in Hall 3 + 2B (Session 4)!. 📄 🌏
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RT @WSJ: Science fiction has long been full of robots that look like we do, but in the real world humanoid machines have been a nonstarter.….
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These creatures of science fiction are moving toward a practical reality, stacking sorting and lifting.
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RT @ScienceMagazine: A new #ScienceReview presents an overview of neuroevolution and explores how neuroevolution experiments can be used to….
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Tired of waiting around for RL to approximate a new policy gradient every time you change your robot's body, only to find out the new design is worse!?⌛️🥱😩. In our new work, Luke demonstrates a more scalable approach that allows the designer to add, remove, mix and match.
New preprint. Accelerated co-design of robots through morphological pretraining. With @Kriegmerica. We pretrained a universal controller in minutes through differentiable simulation. Then we used it as a prior for zero-shot and few-shot evolution to discover robots like this:
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RT @LukeStrgar: We found that morphological pretraining was able to unlock successful recombination ("crossover") of substructures across b….
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RT @LukeStrgar: New preprint. Accelerated co-design of robots through morphological pretraining. With @Kriegmerica. We pretrained a univer….
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RT @risi1979: We're excited to announce the first Evolving Self-organisation workshop at @GeccoConf! . Submission deadline: March 26, 2025….
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RT @CejkovaJitka: The 40th anniversary of the @ALifeConf conference series is approaching. Please contribute your memories and archival mat….
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The “stick figures” (fully rigid, jointed bodies):. The “boneless blobs” (fully soft, jointless bodies):.
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First there were stick figures. Then boneless blobs. Now, finally, freeform endoskeletal robots have evolved,. and they're headed to #ICLR2025 in Singapore!
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