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Arena 5.0 – A Photorealistic ROS2 Simulation Framework for Social Navigation with NVIDIA Isaac Gym

We introduce Arena 5.0, the fifth iteration of the Arena platform, featuring photorealistic simulation via NVIDIA Isaac Gym, comprehensive benchmarking, and customizable scenario generation!

GeNIE for In-the-Wild Navigation

We present a robust navigation framework designed for global deployment that achieved first place in the Earth Rover Challenge at ICRA 2025.

Arena 4.0 - A Comprehensive ROS2 Development and Benchmarking Platform for Human-centric Navigation Using Generative-Model-based Environment Generation

We introduce the fourth iteration of the Arena platform - Arena 4.0, a platform to develop, train, and benchmark social navigation approaches with generative model–based environment generation!

DISCO: Language-Guided Manipulation with Diffusion Policies and Constrained Inpainting

DISCO uses vision-language models to guide diffusion policies with optimized keyframe inpainting, enabling superior zero-shot open-vocabulary robotic manipulation.

Coupled Hierarchical Diffusion for Long-Horizon Tasks

We propose CHD, a unified diffusion-based framework that tightly couples sub-goal and trajectory generation to improve long-horizon task planning.

VLA-Touch: Enhancing Vision-Language-Action Models with Dual-Level Tactile Feedback

We present VLA-Touch, a framework for VLA models with dual-level tactile feedback for contact-rich manipulation.

Tas wins CS Best PhD Thesis Award

Congratulations to Tasbolat Taunyazov for winning the NUS School of Computing Best PhD Thesis Award in CS! The prize is awarded to “the most outstanding PhD ...