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Niklas Funk

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Niklas Funk
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RT @davsca1: Join us tomorrow June 12th at 8:00am for the fifth #CVPR2025 Workshop on Event-based Vision!.Where: 4th level, Grand Ballroom….
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Niklas Funk
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Just arrived at #ICRA2025 to present 2 works on tactile manipulation:. 1) Evetac: An Event-based Optical Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation.On Tue 11:15 - Room 304 (. 2) On the Importance of Tactile Sensing for Imitation Learning: A Case Study on.
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Evetac: An Event-based Optical Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation Niklas Funk, Erik Helmut, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Roberto Calandra, Jan Peters Accepted at the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)...
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Niklas Funk
11 months
I am excited to share that our work "Evetac: An Event-based Optical Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation" got accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO). @ias_tudarmstadt @lasr_lab @TactileInternet @SECAI_School @RCalandra @GeorgiaChal @Jan_R_Peters
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Niklas Funk
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RT @erikhelmut: Super excited to share our work on force estimation for the @gelsight mini optical tactile sensor! 🚀 We introduce FEATS—Fin….
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Niklas Funk
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RT @davide_tateo: I was very happy to present our retrospective of our 2023 Robot Air Hockey Challenge at @NeurIPSConf 2024. Thank you very….
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Niklas Funk
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RT @YunshengTian: Join us at @corl_conf in the afternoon for an inspiring lineup of talks and posters on robotic assembly! Check out how ma….
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Niklas Funk
9 months
I am excited to share our recent work on "ActionFlow: Equivariant, Accurate, and Efficient Policies with Spatially Symmetric Flow Matching". The work presents a novel policy class combining Flow Matching with SE(3) Invariant Transformers for fast, equivariant, and expressive
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Niklas Funk
10 months
RT @davide_tateo: Our competition retrospective on the Robot Air Hockey Challenge 2023 has been accepted in the dataset and benchmark track….
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Niklas Funk
10 months
RT @IeeeTro: Researchers from @ias_tudarmstadt and @lasr_lab present a novel, open-source event-based optical #tactilesensor called Evetac.….
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Niklas Funk
11 months
RT @robotgradient: YouTube is a LARGE dataset of demonstration videos to train Generalist robot agents, but lacks action data. How can we l….
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Niklas Funk
11 months
We believe that fast, bandwidth-efficient event-based tactile sensors like Evetac will be essential for bringing human-like manipulation capabilities to robotics. Check out for the link to the paper, design files, and software interface.
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Evetac: An Event-based Optical Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation Niklas Funk, Erik Helmut, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Roberto Calandra, Jan Peters Accepted at the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)...
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Niklas Funk
11 months
Evetac's output and our touch processing algorithms also provide meaningful features for learning data-driven slip detection and prediction models. The models form the basis for robust and adaptive closed-loop grasp controllers capable of handling a wide range of objects.
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Niklas Funk
11 months
In benchmarking experiments, we demonstrate Evetac's capabilities of sensing vibrations up to 498 Hz, reconstructing shear forces, and significantly reducing data rates compared to RGB optical tactile sensors like GelSight Mini.
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Niklas Funk
11 months
The work introduces a novel, open-source event-based optical tactile sensor called Evetac. The sensor is essentially an event-based version of standard RGB optical tactile sensors. However, the camera replacement allows for obtaining and processing touch measurements at 1000 Hz.
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Niklas Funk
11 months
I am excited to share that our work "Evetac: An Event-based Optical Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation" got accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO). @ias_tudarmstadt @lasr_lab @TactileInternet @SECAI_School @RCalandra @GeorgiaChal @Jan_R_Peters
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Niklas Funk
2 years
RT @svlevine: Today at #NeurIPS23 I’ll give a talk about efficient real world RL for locomotion, manipulation, and navigation at the Robot….
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Niklas Funk
2 years
RT @ias_tudarmstadt: We're excited to present several works at #NeurIPS2023 this week, ranging from approximate inference to tactile sensin….
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Niklas Funk
2 years
RT @liu_puze: We are super excited to share the #air_hockey_challenge competition between @alr_lab_kit and @Idiap_ch on real robots!.Join o….
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Niklas Funk
2 years
RT @GeorgiaChal: We are honored to be nominated for the Best Paper Award on Mobile Manipulation for the second year in a row #IROS2023. Con….
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Niklas Funk
2 years
Looking forward to presenting our work on „Placing by Touching“ at IROS tomorrow. In short, we exploit tactile sensing for precise & stable object placing. It is also nominated for the Best Paper Award on Mobile Manipulation. Happening at 9:12 in room 252AB (Tactile Sensing I).
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Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group
2 years
Placing by Touching: An empirical study on the importance of tactile sensing for precise object placing. Luca Lach,  @n_w_funk,  Robert Haschke, Severin Lemaignan, Helge Joachim Ritter, @Jan_R_Peters & @GeorgiaChal . Website: [4/5]
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Niklas Funk
2 years
RT @GeorgiaChal: Very pleased that our work "Placing by Touching: An empirical study on the importance of tactile sensing for precise objec….
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