Strategic Objectives
• Master the architecture of symbol grounding in real-world environments.
• Understand how robots bridge the gap between pixels and predicates.
• Explore the intersection of spatial reasoning and linguistic semantics.
• Implement robust frameworks for human-robot collaborative tasks.
The Core Challenge
Artificial intelligence can talk, but most systems lack a fundamental understanding of what 'heavy' feels like or where 'behind the chair' actually is.
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The Essence of Grounding
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The Embodied Mind
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Visual Perception
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Naming the World
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Spatial Semantics
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Mapping the Terrain
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The Language of Action
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Affordances and Interaction
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Multimodal Fusion
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Situational Context
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Point of View
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Knowledge Representation
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Deep Learning for Grounding
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Reinforcement Learning
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Natural Language Understanding
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Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
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Human-Robot Dialogue
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Proprioception and Haptics
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Joint Attention
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Sim-to-Real Transfer
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