Published inToyota Research Institute·Sep 14TRI’s Robots Learn New Manipulation Skills in an Afternoon. Here’s How.By: Siyuan Feng, Ben Burchfiel, Toffee Albina, and Russ Tedrake — TRI is unveiling a new approach that allows a robot to acquire new dexterous behaviors from demonstration. We’re going to walk through why this is a critical new capability, what advancements have made this possible, and where we are going next.Robotics11 min readRobotics11 min read
Published inToyota Research Institute·Jun 14TRI At CVPR 2023The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) is the premier annual computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and short courses. This year, CVPR will be a single track such that everyone (with full passport registration) can attend everything. …Artificial Intelligence9 min readArtificial Intelligence9 min read
Published inToyota Research Institute·May 25TRI at ICRA 2023The International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is one of the top international venues in Robotics. ICRA 2023 will be a hybrid conference, with both in-person and virtual attendance options, and it will take place on May 29 to June 2 in London, England. This year, Toyota Research Institute…Artificial Intelligence9 min readArtificial Intelligence9 min read
Published inToyota Research Institute·May 16Understanding the complexity of battery health with explainable AIBy: Shijing Sun, Amalie Trewartha, and the TRI Energy & Materials research division Just as we all care about our health and quality of life over time, battery scientists have the same passion for maximizing the longevity of batteries and closely tracking their health. …Battery4 min readBattery4 min read
Published inToyota Research Institute·May 4TRI @ CHI 2023 — Medium PostThe ACM CHI (pronounced ‘kai’) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the foremost event for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research. TRI was thrilled to be a contributing sponsor for CHI’s 2023 hybrid conference in Hamburg, Germany, April 23–28. Building off of TRI’s successful showing at CHI 2022, our researchers…Toyota5 min readToyota5 min read
Published inToyota Research Institute·Oct 26, 2022Why we make our robots shop for groceriesHow challenge tasks drive the development of our mobile manipulation systems — By The TRI Mobile Manipulation Team, including James Borders, Richard Cheng, Dan Helmick, Lukas Kaul, Dan Kruse, John Leichty, Carolyn Matl, Chavdar Papazov, Mark Tjersland At TRI, we are developing robotic capabilities with the goal of improving the quality of everyday life for all. To reach this goal, we define…Robotics8 min readRobotics8 min read
Published inToyota Research Institute·Oct 24, 2022Building an Open Database of Polymers for Interpretable and Transparent Simulationsby Ha-Kyung Kwon Shortly after I bought my first smartphone, news broke of a similar smartphone exploding in a Korean man’s pocket, giving him severe burns in the shape of his phone and the spare battery he also kept in his pocket. Though lithium-ion batteries have become ubiquitous, we still…Artificial Intelligence6 min readArtificial Intelligence6 min read
Published inToyota Research Institute·Jun 28, 2022Rethinking Contact Simulation for Robot ManipulationHydroelastic Contact in Drake By: Michael Sherman Today’s robots have a tough time manipulating…Robotics8 min readRobotics8 min read
Published inToyota Research Institute·Jun 17, 2022TRI at CVPR 2022The conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) is one of the top international venues in Computer Science, with a focus on computer vision and machine learning. …Cvpr7 min readCvpr7 min read
