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Siddhartha Srinivasa

@siddhss5
Boeing Endowed Professor in #robotics @uwcse. I’m a full-stack roboticist, tennis player, book reader, & cook. Tweets my own.
Seattle, WA
goodrobot.ai
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    Siddhartha Srinivasa
    @siddhss5
    Jun 30
    I had a blast speaking about deploying robots in the real world with @BradPorter_ on his Deployed podcast!
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    Brad Porter
    @BradPorter_
    Jun 29
    “We humans are a local minimum in evolution.” @siddhss5 built humanoids for DARPA. His case against them is math: two arms and five fingers is just where evolution landed. Roboticists can build whatever actually works. Deployed EP8 drops tomorrow.
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    Siddhartha Srinivasa
    @siddhss5
    Jun 1
    Fifteen years ago, I had the privilege of working with Rosen Diankov at CMU on his PhD thesis. The capstone was IKFast — for a generation of roboticists, the definition of what analytical inverse kinematics could be. Today, I'm excited to release the next chapter: ssik. 1/
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    Siddhartha Srinivasa
    @siddhss5
    Jun 19, 2025
    I’ve been recently thinking much about data-efficiency in learning. While there’s no way to overcome the quadratic increase in mistakes with noninteractive IL like BC, a good representation that’s both attentive and generalizable significantly improves the constant.
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    Yunchu Zhang
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    Jun 19, 2025
    How should a robot perceive the world? What kind of visual representation leads to robust visuomotor policy learning for robotics? Policies trained on raw images are often fragile—easily broken by lighting, clutter, or object variations—making it challenging to deploy policies
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