PhD @UMRobotics in robot learning & deformable object manipulation
Cambridge, MA
Joined April 2015
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Peter Mitrano retweeted
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10…
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pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10…
Peter Mitrano retweeted
Our OpenX paper won best paper at ICRA! Congrats to all my co-authors! 🎉🎉
This is an ongoing effort, we recently added new datasets from the community that double the size of the OpenX dataset -- keep 'em coming! :)
Check datasets & how to contribute: robotics-transformer-x.githu…
Peter Mitrano retweeted
Hi everyone!
I am finding myself having more spare time than expected 😅(wink wink).
If your #robotic company needs some "extra muscle 💪" in their team to execute a project or delegate some work, let me know and I will be happy to help!
Reposts are greatly appreciated 😉!
Peter Mitrano retweeted
A few entrants in our RoboHalloween...
• Stegosaurus & Spiderman @BostonDynamics Spots
• Octopus robot arm
• Spatula robot arm
Also, the spider-spot sprayed silly string from its manipulator! Put on by our Robotics Graduate & Undergraduate Student Councils. 📷: Xili Yi
ALT a quadruped robot dressed as a stegosaurus is operated by a student wearing a stegosaurus costume.
ALT a quadruped robot with an arm on its head wears a spiderman costume
ALT a very tall robot arm wearing a spatula costume
ALT a robot arm sticks up from the depths of its workbench, aside several other cardboard octopus arms
Peter Mitrano retweeted
@PeterMitrano and Alison Ryckman demoed hose manipulation and error recovery at #IROS2023 using @BostonDynamics Spot. @PeterMitrano is graduating (PhD) soon and is on the industry job market!
Short description: arm.eecs.umich.edu/download.…
Full method video: youtube.com/watch?v=-dTrQkYQ…
Peter Mitrano retweeted
I spent the weekend benchmarking #Bonxai to get ready for my presentation at #ROSCon2023
I compared it to #octomap using the Kitti dataset and the results are great 😍:
- 10x times faster
- 1/2 memory used
github.com/facontidavide/Bon…
Peter Mitrano retweeted
Home robots need to learn how to use our compliant tools (e.g., sponges). @MarkVanderMerwe's #RSS2023 paper enables simultaneous deformation and contact estimation via implicit representations, paving the way for next-gen dexterous tool-use @umicharmlab @UMRobotics @WiYoungsun
Peter Mitrano retweeted
Robots can slide objects on flat surfaces when they are too big/heavy to lift. But what if they cannot push on the side of the object? Xili Yi shows how robots can use top contact to certifiably push the object to any desired configuration #RSS2023 arxiv.org/abs/2305.14289
Peter Mitrano retweeted
Close your eyes and pick up two objects, one in each hand. Can you guess their poses just from poking them against each other? Our robots can! Check out MultisSCOPE, Andrea Sipos' paper accepted at RSS 2023: arxiv.org/abs/2305.14204 #RSS2023 @UMRobotics @UMengineering
Peter Mitrano retweeted
We are creating algorithms that will enable robots to help with agriculture. Someday robots will help with organic farming, but for now we are harvesting potatoes ourselves from our Rooftop Robot Garden. Bonus points to Alison for making a beautiful dish from what we harvested!
Peter Mitrano retweeted
How can we enable a robot to explicitly reason about occlusions for better cloth manipulation? Check out our #RSS2022 paper which proposes a self-supervised test-time finetuning method for reconstructing crumpled clothes.
w/@davheld, @xingyu2017
Website: sites.google.com/view/occlus…
Peter Mitrano retweeted
Academia really really needs to sit with the fact that first year PhD students are stressed if they haven't published yet. I mean this is truly absurd. When do they get to learn? To train? To develop their craft? Slow it down. Slow it way the f down.
Peter Mitrano retweeted
Want to learn complex constraints from demonstrations and quantify constraint uncertainty? Use Gaussian Processes (GPs) with KKT conditions and constraint gradients! Check out our presentation at #ICRA2022 . Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2112.04612 , Video: youtube.com/watch?v=mN1X_2R9…
Peter Mitrano retweeted
Excited to present our work on object tracking in clutter using only tactile feedback (johnsonzhong.me/projects/stu…) at ICRA! This is joint work with @NimaFazeli7, using bubble tactile sensors from @ToyotaResearch.
Peter Mitrano retweeted
Just out: summary article about the new version of the Robot Operating System (ROS2): @ROSorg in @SciRobotics (btw, a new release of ROS2 is scheduled for 23 May).
science.org/doi/10.1126/scir…
Peter Mitrano retweeted
Nice, a two-way coupling between Gazebo and Nvidia Omniverse (we should do the same for PyBullet and MuJoCo!):
1) Provide offline converters between USD<->SDF
2) Interaction between Gazebo and Isaac Sim
community.gazebosim.org/t/ig…
Peter Mitrano retweeted
I can’t wait!
Mark your calendars: Tuesday, October 26 is our next #SelfDrivenWomen event.
Hear from three of our female engineering leads as they discuss some of the most interesting autonomous driving tech problems that they’re tackling today. Register today: waymoevents.com/
Peter Mitrano retweeted
The final version of our paper, "Constrained Motion Planning Networks X," accepted at IEEE Transactions on Robotics is now available with its code, pre-trained models, and dataset!
arxiv.org/pdf/2010.08707.pdf
sites.google.com/view/compne…
#Robotics #DeepLearning #manifoldspace
