We're #hiring strong RS and RE (among others)! @ Nomagic Want to work on getting VLA and other models to eat their harness? Excited about production rather than prototypes? Curious about modular robot embodiments and tool use? And convinced that more than 2 arms is possible? ...

We benchmarked the strongest generalist VLMs on a simple but relevant perception task: verifying warehouse orders. They're genuinely impressive but still ~8x above the false-alert rate production can tolerate.

Thrilled to see our argument for inclusion of AI in peer review as oral (~1%) in the position track #ICML2026! AI has crucial potential to accelerate scientific progress, but the exist. process is already overwhelmed. AI scales not only insights but papers (inc fluff). lnkd.in/da2E_tWY

Research roles for Zürich/Warsaw @ #Nomagic are open now! First round - More to come soon! #robotics #foundationmodels #VLA nomagic.ai/careers/#ope...

Review request: As usual for the time of year, I'll be looking for #IROS2026 reviewers. Highly interesting stack of papers on #ReinforcementLearning #Sim2Real #RewardLearning #LLMs #DataEfficiency #RoboticManipulation Reach out with your ID or papercept registered mail address and background.

Robotiq directly integrating touch, robustly and reliably (hopefully 😉), is a big deal. looking forward to playing with these. Now reannotating old teleop data might be unfeasible, but RL... 🚀 www.linkedin.com/posts/vision...

While the human form is brilliant, it’s ultimately limited. The real future of robotics lies in the permission to move beyond our own biological constraints and optimize. Note, we didn't achieve supersonic flight by mimicking the flapping of wings.

I'll be at #NeurIPS2025 next week! Looking forward to catching up with old and new friends - on AI for robots, Gemini Robotics, the RLnaissance in AI, and bad puns. Bon appetit!

Truly enjoyed discussing the consolidation of specialist and generalist approaches to physical AI at #IROS2025. Hoping to visit Hangzhou in physical rather than digital form myself in the not too distant future - second IROS AC dinner missed in a row. #Robotics #physicalAI

'Papa, was ist das?' As a parent, Gemini has made my life massively easier. We found this caterpillar earlier and the answer is in fact correct (verification is much easier than generation thanks to classical Google search) Very curious about how LLMs are continuing to change the ways we learn!

Control problems are everywhere, but some applications of Reinforcement Learning are truly out of this world! 🌌 Our team's latest research @ Google DeepMind in #Science shows RL can improve sensitivity by 30-100x. See how RL can accelerate cosmic discovery!👇 (Image #nanobanana) lnkd.in/e8r7t3NJ

Looking forward to talking about how much multiagentness do we need for multiagent RL for #robot soccer and other real world applications! In half an hour at the #Robolethics workshop #ICRA2025 @GoogleDeepMind

If you blink, you've missed it! Demis Hassabis showing a glance into the future of robotics and vision language action models! #GoogleDeepMind #GoogleIO #robotics

Looking forward to #ICRA2025 ! Find me (remotely) during the workshops and catch up on large-scale RL, IL, and multi agent learning with a side of vision language action models!

Agentic LLMs need to explore! The web is a non-stationary, highly partially unobservable 🏔️. Thomas #GoogleDeepMind internship systematically investigates current challenges and the role of scale, RL, and chain-of-thought reasoning to overcome them. arxiv.org/abs/2504.16078

As always a wonderful visit @NeurIPSConf! Thanks to old and new friends for making this conference so special! Missing the workshop to spend more time with family. So please share any exciting talks and papers on RL, IL, IRL on language and action modeling! It's a wrap #NeurIPS2024

Wonderful to see Danica Kragic's #robotics talk at #NeurIPS2024! AI development has to be grounded in the physical world, and any definition of AGI excluding it is incomplete!

Spending time around #NeurIPS2024 today! Ping to talk about (little) humanoids and (inverse) RL for sequential decision making!

Imitation via #ReinforcementLearning (IvRL, IRL, RFT, ...) is not just eating the whole cake but baking a massive, new cake! 🎂 🍒 neurips.cc/virtual/2024... We have some work at #NeurIPS2024. Come visit! 📜 Related, some 'late to the party' thoughts RL-based imitation in o1 and RFT:

Student researcher applications are open! We have exciting projects lined up in apprenticeship and (inverse) reinforcement for large-scale decision modeling in robotics and LLMs. I’ll also be at #NeurIPS2024 ! Reach out if you’re around! www.google.com/about/career... #robotics #llms #rl #ml

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Quick spoiler for my talk at the Oxford Robotics Seminar tomorrow! 🍒s instead of 🍓s Thanks for the invitation to Ioannis Havoutis and the ORI team. Always good to visit (academic) home! #UniversityofOxford #OxfordRoboticsInstitute #GoogleDeepMind #robotics #reinforcementlearning