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Robotics Engineering Colloquium Speaking Series: Dr. Weiyu Liu
Building Robots with Structured Commonsense Knowledge\n\n\n\n      \n      \n\n\n\nAbstract:
  Robotics can transform our lives by providing assistance in various place
 s, from homes to hospitals and disaster zones. Realizing this vision requi
 res autonomous systems that can operate in unstructured environments, adap
 t to new situations, and interpret instructions from non-expert users. Yet
  current robots often fall short because they lack a general understanding
  of the world, the kind of common knowledge humans possess. In this talk, 
 I will discuss frameworks driven by structured commonsense knowledge that 
 addresses these challenges. We will focus on three key aspects: knowledge 
 domains covering objects, spatial relations, and tasks; computational meth
 ods for jointly reasoning about language, vision, and physical actions; an
 d knowledge sources including human-provided language instructions and lar
 ge language models. By integrating these components, we move closer to dev
 eloping robots that can effectively leverage prior knowledge, generalize, 
 and provide meaningful assistance in real-world environments.\nBio: Weiyu 
 Liu is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Science Department at Sta
 nford University, working with Professor Jiajun Wu. His research brings to
 gether ideas from robotics, AI, and ML to develop robots with commonsense 
 knowledge and the ability to operate autonomously in unstructured environm
 ents. Before joining Stanford, Weiyu completed his Ph.D. in Robotics at th
 e Georgia Institute of Technology under the supervision of Professor Sonia
  Chernova. During his graduate studies, he interned at the NVIDIA Seattle 
 Robotics Lab and collaborated with Facebook AI Research. He received his B
 achelor鈥檚 degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech. He was sel
 ected as a Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Pioneer in 2022 and contrib
 uted to the 2024 US National Robotics Roadmap.\nZoom link: https://wpi.zoo
 m.us/j/93413349160\n
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