Thank goodness! At last, I’m happy to announce the Fifth Annual Embodied AI Workshop, held this year in Seattle as part of CVPR 2024! This workshop brings together vision researchers and roboticists to explore how having a body affects the problems you need to solve with your mind.
This year’s workshop theme is “Open-World Embodied AI” – embodied AI when you cannot fully specify the tasks or their targets at the start of your problem. We have three subthemes:
- Embodied Mobile Manipulation: Going beyond our traditional manipulation and navigation challenges, this topic focuses on moving objects through space at the same time as moving yourself.
- Generative AI for Embodied AI: Building datasets for embodied AI is challenging, but we’ve made a lot of progress using “synthetic” data to expand these datasets.
- Language Model Planning: Lastly but not leastly, a topic near and dear to my heart: using large language models as a core technology for planning with robotic systems.
The workshop will have six speakers and presentations from six challenges, and perhaps a sponsor or two. Please come join us at CVPR, though we also plan to support hybrid attendance.
Presumably, the workshop location will look something like the above, so we hope to see you there!
-the Centaur
Pictured: the banner for EAI#5, partially done with generative AI guided by my colleague Claudia Perez D’Arpino and Photoshoppery done by me. Also, last year’s workshop entrance.
