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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!

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 ...

Diffusion Meets Options: Hierarchical Generative Skill Composition for Temporally-Extended Tasks

DOPPLER is a new framework that combines diffusion models and hierarchical reinforcement learning to let robots plan and replan complex, long-horizon tasks from offline data with robustness in the real world.

Know When to Abstain: Optimal Selective Classification with Likelihood Ratios

We propose optimal likelihood ratio-based selective classification methods based on the Neyman-Pearson lemma and evaluate them under vision and language covariate shifts tasks.