{"id":8245,"date":"2024-06-04T10:42:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T17:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=8245"},"modified":"2024-06-12T23:40:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T06:40:40","slug":"the-nebulas-embodied-ai-and-unsolved-social-navigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/04\/the-nebulas-embodied-ai-and-unsolved-social-navigation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nebulas, Embodied AI, and Unsolved Social Navigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-05-at-4.28.29-PM-600x322.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6082\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-05-at-4.28.29-PM-600x322.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-05-at-4.28.29-PM-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-05-at-4.28.29-PM-768x412.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-05-at-4.28.29-PM-640x343.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-05-at-4.28.29-PM.png 808w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey folks, another &#8220;sticky post&#8221; for my next three events: The Nebula Conference, the Embodied AI Workshop, and the Workshop on Unsolved Problems in Social Robot Navigation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240421_154146-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7817\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240421_154146-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240421_154146-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240421_154146-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240421_154146-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240421_154146-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240421_154146-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Coming up is the <a href=\"https:\/\/events.sfwa.org\/conference-schedule\/\">Nebula Conference<\/a>,<\/strong> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/\">Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America&#8217;s<\/a> conference, where again I&#8217;ll be talking about artificial intelligence and signing books!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Thursday, June 6th: <\/strong>2:30pm:  Anthony Francis Meet-and-Greet Table E Pasadena<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Saturday, June 8th: <\/strong>10:30am: Why AI Needs Humans Pasadena<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There will also be office hours but I think you have to sign up in advance for those, and we have a scheduling snafu regarding those anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/eai-2024-linkedin-share-600x314.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7893\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/eai-2024-linkedin-share-600x314.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/eai-2024-linkedin-share-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/eai-2024-linkedin-share-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/eai-2024-linkedin-share-640x335.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/eai-2024-linkedin-share.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>After that is the <a href=\"https:\/\/embodied-ai.org\/\">Embodied AI Workshop<\/a> on June 18th<\/strong>, hosted at <a href=\"https:\/\/cvpr.thecvf.com\/\">CVPR, the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference<\/a>, where I am the lead organizer, though you&#8217;ll probably only hear me yapping for any extended length of time if you show up in the first ten minutes &#8211; I give the intro talk at 8:50am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230218_014810-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6290\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230218_014810-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230218_014810-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230218_014810-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230218_014810-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230218_014810-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230218_014810-640x853.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230218_014810.jpg 1754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally is the Workshop on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsolvedsocialnav.org\/\">Unsolved Problems in Social Robot Navigation<\/a>, held at the Robotics, Science and Systems Conference. <a href=\"https:\/\/cmt3.research.microsoft.com\/UnsolvedSocNav2024\">Our paper deadline is coming up June 7th<\/a>, and the workshop itself will be held July 19th at <a href=\"https:\/\/roboticsconference.org\/\">RSS in the Netherlands<\/a>. I&#8217;m an organizer for this one, but I&#8217;ll only be able to attend virtually due to my manager (me) telling me I&#8217;m already going to enough conferences this year, which I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After that &#8230;. Dragon Con!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictured: More from the archives, until I fix the website backend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey folks, another &#8220;sticky post&#8221; for my next three events: The Nebula Conference, the Embodied AI Workshop, and the Workshop on Unsolved Problems in Social Robot Navigation! 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