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Robotics + AI PhD Student @MIT_LISLab @MIT_CSAIL. Formerly @NVIDIAAI @rai_inst, @brownbigai, @vicariousai and @uber. S.B @BrownUniversity.

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Nishanth Kumar
1 year
Can we get robots to improve at long-horizon tasks without supervision?. Our latest work tackles this problem by planning to practice!. Here's a teaser showing initial task -> autonomous practice -> eval (+ interference by a gremlinšŸ‘æ)
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Nishanth Kumar
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RT @siddkaramcheti: Thrilled to share that I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech (@ICatGT / @GTrobotics / @mlatgt) in….
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Nishanth Kumar
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It was a ton of fun to help @WillShenSaysHi and @CaelanGarrett on new work that does GPU-accelerated TAMP! Exciting progress towards . efficient test time scaling for robots šŸ¤–.
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Caelan Garrett
1 month
Check out this MIT News article about our research on GPU-accelerated manipulation planning! @WillShenSaysHi @nishanthkumar23 @imankitgoyal.
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Nishanth Kumar
3 months
This has to be one of the coolest robot demo videos I’ve seen! Very impressive stuff from @physical_int.
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Sergey Levine
3 months
Ļ€-0.5 is here, and it can generalize to new homes! Some fun experiments with my colleagues at @physical_int, introducing Ļ€-0.5 (ā€œpi oh fiveā€). Our new VLA can put dishes in the sink, clean up spills and do all this in homes that it was not trained inšŸ§µšŸ‘‡
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Nishanth Kumar
4 months
Very interesting new work (that builds on our work on planning to practice!) on open ended learning and exploration for LLM agents! In general I’m quite excited for ideas from planning, RL, and Robotics to help make LLM agents even more autonomous and capable! šŸ¤–.
@CartaThomas2
Carta Thomas
4 months
šŸš€ Introducing 🧭MAGELLAN—our new metacognitive framework for LLM agents! It predicts its own learning progress (LP) in vast natural language goal spaces, enabling efficient exploration of complex domains.šŸŒāœØLearn more: šŸ”— #OpenEndedLearning #LLM #RL.
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Nishanth Kumar
4 months
I’m at #AAAI2025 for the next two days! Come say hi in today’s ā€œPlanning in the era of LLMsā€ or the ā€œGenPlanā€ workshops. Also keen to chat about any and all things related to test time scaling via search, robotics, agents, or food in Philly!.
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Nishanth Kumar
6 months
RT @yichao_liang: Now accepted at #ICLR2025!..
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Nishanth Kumar
6 months
RT @DJiafei: Happy to share that AHA has been accepted to #ICLR2025! Will be going home!.
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Nishanth Kumar
7 months
RT @hankgreen: It seems that I am giving the commencement address at MIT in May 😳.
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Nishanth Kumar
7 months
I’m quite biased, but I think this is some cool and interesting work on using LLMs for robotics :).
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MIT CSAIL
7 months
Can we teach a robot its limits to do chores safely & correctly? 🧵. To help robots execute open-ended, multi-step tasks, MIT CSAIL researchers used vision models to see what’s near the machine & model its constraints. An LLM sketches up a plan that’s checked in a simulator to
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Nishanth Kumar
8 months
RT @physical_int: @Astribot_Inc šŸ¤ Physical Intelligence (Ļ€)
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Nishanth Kumar
8 months
RT @wenlong_huang: Excited to share that ReKep won Best Paper Award at CoRL LEAP workshop!. Extracting plannable task representations from….
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Nishanth Kumar
8 months
Happening in a few hours (4pm in the main auditorium Audimax!).
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Nishanth Kumar
8 months
Curious to hear about creating generalist robots from leaders in the field? Don’t miss our panel ā€œRepresentations for Generalist Robotsā€ (4-5pm) @corl_conf LEAP workshop! Feat. @chelseabfinn @animesh_garg Vincent Vanhoucke @Marc__Toussaint @sidsrivast and Leslie Kaelbling!
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Nishanth Kumar
8 months
Curious to hear about creating generalist robots from leaders in the field? Don’t miss our panel ā€œRepresentations for Generalist Robotsā€ (4-5pm) @corl_conf LEAP workshop! Feat. @chelseabfinn @animesh_garg Vincent Vanhoucke @Marc__Toussaint @sidsrivast and Leslie Kaelbling!
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Nishanth Kumar
8 months
RT @corl_conf: Incredible insights from Prof. TomĆ”s Lozano-PĆ©rez of MIT during his keynote on the evolution of robotics! He took us on a jo….
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Nishanth Kumar
9 months
RT @AjayMandlekar: Our NVIDIA robotics research team is hiring PhD student interns!. Locations: Bay Area or Seattle. Apply: .
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Nishanth Kumar
9 months
RT @mendonca_rl: Our CoRL 2024 paper shows Reinforcement Learning can allow robots to learn skills via real-world practice, without any dem….
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Nishanth Kumar
10 months
It’s been a lot of fun to be part of this work! Failure reasoning is a critical component for robot planning and learning methods, and it’s really cool to see how well AHA generalizes to new situations!!.
@DJiafei
Jiafei Duan
10 months
Humans learn and improve from failures. Similarly, foundation models adapt based on human feedback. Can we leverage this failure understanding to enhance robotics systems that use foundation models?. Introducing AHA—a vision-language model for detecting and reasoning over
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Nishanth Kumar
10 months
We’ve decided to extend the submission deadline for this years LEAP workshop - new deadline is October 4!.
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Nishanth Kumar
10 months
RT @shah__naman: Now accepting submissions. šŸ“†Deadline: Sept 22.šŸ”—Submission link available on the website: Submit….
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Nishanth Kumar
10 months
Having been mentored by Tom, I can’t recommend working with him highly enough!! If you’re applying for a PhD this year, you’d be quite hard pressed to find a better advisor!.
@tomssilver
Tom Silver
10 months
I am hiring multiple PhD students this year to launch the Princeton Robot Planning and Learning lab:. Thanks for helping me spread the word!.
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