Tom Silver

@tomssilver

Assistant Professor @Princeton. Developing robots that plan and learn to help people.

Princeton, NJ

tomsilver.github.io

Joined October 2011

Tom Silver
@tomssilver
Aug 16
This week's #PaperILike is "Legibility and Predictability of Robot Motion" (Dragan, Lee, & Srinivasa, HRI 2013). Seminal work. Legibility: the robot's goal can be inferred easily from its motion. Predictability is the reverse: goal generates motion. PDF: publications.ri.cmu.edu/legibility-and…
Tom Silver
@tomssilver
Aug 15
This has been my experience lately when learning new things. TBD whether the early plateau is a me issue, or if I should avoid the temptation of LLM assistance altogether.
Tom Silver
@tomssilver
Aug 13
📢 Roboticists in the northeast: ⏰ 1 week until NERC submissions are due! 🧳 1 week to register for travel grant eligibility! 👉
NERC 2026 | Northeast Robotics Colloquium
From nerc2026.github.io
Tom Silver
@tomssilver
Aug 9
This week's #PaperILike is "People construct simplified mental representations to plan" (Ho et al., Nature 2022). People generate ("construe") simplified task representations on-the-fly. (Robots should too!) Also: awesome first paragraph. PDF:
arxiv.org
People construct simplified mental representations to plan
One of the most striking features of human cognition is the capacity to plan. Two aspects of human planning stand out: its efficiency and flexibility. Efficiency is especially impressive because...
Tom Silver
@tomssilver
Aug 6
⏰ Two weeks until NERC 2026 submissions close! Abstracts and rising star applications are due August 20. August 20 is also the registration deadline to be considered for a travel grant. We're excited to receive your submissions!
NERC 2026
@NERC_Robotics
Jul 22
NERC is coming to beautiful @EPrinceton this Fall! Please see the CfP for papers and demos, as well as our call for Rising Stars in Robotics. Submissions due August 20 AoE. nerc2026.github.io