<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b>    </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">    Thurs</font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">day, January 30,<span class="gmail_default"> </span>2025</span><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> at</font><b><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </font><u><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">10:00</font></u></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><b><u><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, sans-serif"> am</font></u></b><b><font color="#0000ff"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><u> CT</u> </font><font style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </font></font><font color="#000000" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </font></b></span></font></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><p style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><b><font color="#500050" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></b></p><p style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><font color="#500050">Where:       </font></b><font color="#000000">Talk will be given </font><font color="#000000" style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-weight:bold"> </font>at<br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#500050">               </font><font color="#000000">    TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">                   5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px">Virtually:</b><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px">   <i>via panopto: </i><a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=8024e965-3ff6-4a7b-892a-b26f00744d89" target="_blank"><b>livestream</b></a></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px"><font size="1"><font face="georgia, serif">                      </font></font></b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">                     </font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b> <font color="#500050">    </font><font color="#000000"><font color="#500050">   </font></font></font></font></font>Siddharth Karamcheti, Stanford University</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p><div style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:2.25pt solid rgb(11,118,159);padding:0in 0in 1pt"></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Title:         </b>Language-Driven Learning for Interactive Robotics</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Abstract</b>: Building and deploying broadly capable robots requires systems that can efficiently learn from and work with people. To achieve this, robots must balance <b>capability</b> — the skills necessary to enable real-world deployment — and <b>sustainability</b> — the ability to grow and adapt through human feedback. In this talk, I will motivate <b>language-driven learning</b> to tackle these axes, providing robots with better abstractions for perception, action, and human-robot interaction. First, towards capability, I will present our approach for using language to learn flexible visual representations that can be efficiently adapted for diverse robotics tasks. Building on these ideas, I will then discuss and investigate methods for training visually-conditioned language models and vision-language-action policies at scale, harnessing pretrained language models for robust and generalizable reasoning. Finally, towards sustainability, I will introduce a new framework that integrates these foundation models to develop collaborative robots that can work alongside human partners, using language to express uncertainty and learn new behaviors from real-time interactions. I will conclude with open challenges for enhancing both the capability and sustainability of modern robots, with directions for future work.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Bio: </b>Siddharth Karamcheti is a final year PhD student at Stanford University advised by Dorsa Sadigh and Percy Liang, and a robotics intern at the Toyota Research Institute. His research focuses on robot learning, natural language processing, and human-robot interaction, with a goal of developing scalable approaches for human-robot collaboration. Prior to the PhD, he earned his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Literary Arts at Brown University, where he worked with Eugene Charniak and Stefanie Tellex. He is a recipient of the Open Philanthropy AI Fellowship (2018), is an RSS Pioneer (2024), and his research has won paper awards at conferences such as RSS, CoRL, ICRA, and ACL.</font></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Host: </b><a href="mailto:mwalter@ttic.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank"><b>Matthew Walter</b></a></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Rm 517</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">773-834-1757</font></i></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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