Marius Memmel

@memmelma

Robotics PhD student @UW and intern @amazon FAR, previously intern @NVIDIA SRL, intern @Bosch_AI, @EPFL, @TUDarmstadt, @DHBW

Seattle, WA

memmelma.github.io

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Marius Memmel
@memmelma
Mar 5
There’s a discussion going on rn about two recent robotic reward models: TOPReward⛰️ and Robometer🌡️ Which one is better? It depends entirely on your objective! Here is a deep dive into the conceptual differences, strengths, and weaknesses of both. 🧵👇
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Marius Memmel
@memmelma
Sep 10
Remember URDFormer? The vision was simple: image in, URDF out. Fast-forward 2.5 years, and GPT-6 Astra can solve this task zero-shot. This is a massive win for the community: a scalable and cheap way to generate high-quality simulation assets!
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Marius Memmel
@memmelma
Sep 3
Update the high-level VLM while keeping the low-level policy fixed. Then run RL on offline data to avoid expensive environment interactions. Clever idea!
Lehong Wu
@LehongWu2004
Aug 28
How should robots think? 🤔 In our new paper R³, we introduce a simple way to get robots to think before they act—like humans: free-form, deliberate, and actually useful. The recipe is surprisingly simple: just RL, done carefully. Yet it enables reasoning that can effectively
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Marius Memmel
@memmelma
Aug 27
I recently tried out their github repo on some random mujoco environment and was blown away by how well a zero-shot VLM could already solve the task. No policy, no fancy action head, just outputting joint positions or endeffector actions! Highly recommend checking it out :)
Jay Chooi
@chooi_jeq
Aug 27
Introducing @robocurve, a Public Benefit Corporation to measure and report frontier robotics capabilities. We build real-world evaluations for robots and publish results as a neutral third party.
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Marius Memmel
@memmelma
Aug 21
When we were exploring trajectory retrieval, we were hoping that some day in-context learning would be unlocked for robotics. Turns out all it took was two years and tons and tons of data. Congrats @GeneralistAI on the impressive demo! Check out our past work on retrieval:
Generalist
@GeneralistAI
Aug 19
Introducing GEN-1.5, a one-shot learner. It can learn new tasks in a few seconds. Show it what to do, and it generalizes. This capability emerged from pretraining on physical data at scale, as a step towards our mission of building general intelligence for the physical world.
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