Yu Xiang
@YuXiang_IRVL
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Assistant Professor @UT_Dallas, Intelligent Robotics and Vision Lab @IRVLUTD, PhD @UMich, Previously @StanfordCS @uwcse @NVIDIA All views my own.
Dallas, TX
Joined October 2023
I was preparing a video to introduce our lab @IRVLUTD for a meeting. Happy to share the video here!.We are looking forward to collaborating with both academia and industry. Please feel free to reach out
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Teaching our robot new skills from human demonstration videos — excited to share more soon with @saihaneesh_allu @jis_padalunkal @IRVLUTD
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Migrating my robotics homework from ROS 1 → ROS 2 .Found a great repo by Andrej Orsula integrating ROS 2, Gazebo, and MoveIt 2:.
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Franka Emika Panda packages for manipulation with MoveIt 2 inside Gazebo - AndrejOrsula/panda_gz_moveit2
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RT @liu_mingyu: The submissions portal for the NVIDIA 2026-2027 Graduate Fellowships is now open PHD students work….
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RT @imankitgoyal: We, at NVIDIA's Seattle Robotics Research team, are hiring. 🤖. We are seeking Senior Research Scientists and New College….
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We @IRVLUTD hosted 7 high school students this summer through the STEM Bridge Program, where they explored perception-driven robotic grasping with @JwRobotics and Qifan Zhang. Their project just won 2nd place out of 15 teams—huge congrats to the team! 👏🤖
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RT @ankurhandos: If you're interested in working on learning from simulation, direct from perception and training at scale for multi-finger….
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RT @XiaohanZhang220: I’m looking for a PhD research intern to work on robot foundation models @rai_inst (formerly known as Boston Dynamics….
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What we are looking for..... We are looking for graduate students to join us onsite at our new beautiful office space in Cambridge. You will work in an invigorating environment where researchers and...
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RT @RussTedrake: TRI's latest Large Behavior Model (LBM) paper landed on arxiv last night! Check out our project website: .
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A general research tip: pay attention to the details. When something strange happens—don’t ignore it. Especially in robotics, odd or incorrect robot behavior often reveals deeper insights. Dig in and ask why.
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Well, I believe that algorithms and hardware will get there—dexterous hands are the future. Saw Matthew at RSS—was too shy to ask for a photo.
Time for blog post number eight -- "Vacuum grippers versus robot hands." Here's the question: when humanoids can do everything a human can, will they take over the warehouse? No! Vacuum is awesome! Vacuum grippers are the wheels of manipulation!. It is only an five-minute.
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Don't be too hyped about generalist robots.
Tesla has paused Optimus production to revise its design – the redesign could take around two months, according, per Chinese outlet LatePost Auto. Musk's mass production goal for this year is basically out of reach. According to sources in China’s supply chain, Tesla is making
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Working on NeurIPS reviews. My assignments cover topics in robotic grasping, manipulation, world model, semantic SLAM, object pose estimation and sign language recognition. Now, I understand why there are so many NeurIPS submissions.
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Wrapped up a wonderful RSS! It was great to reunite with friends and finally meet so many people I only knew from X!
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Why build a humanoid robot? Because the world is designed for humans, including all the best Halloween costumes!
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So many great workshops and talks tomorrow. It will be hard to decide which one to go #RSS2025
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”why are so many vision / learning researchers moving to robotics?” Keynote from @trevordarrell #RSS2025
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