Robotics Research Scientist, Research Fellow, MIT @MIT_CSAIL
Joined December 2017
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Travis Manderson retweeted
For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-W…
Check out our work on anomaly detection with amazing colleagues at #ICRA2025.
Presenting “Anomalies by synthesis” at #ICRA2025: a diffusion-based approach that segments anomalies in images by first synthesizing what the image should’ve looked like if it were in-distribution, and then analyzing the difference between the two images!
siddancha.github.io/anomalie…
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Travis Manderson retweeted
You wouldn’t believe what I just saw.
More images and video to come...
#MarsHelicopter
go.nasa.gov/ingenuity
Travis Manderson retweeted
#MarsHelicopter, you are cleared for takeoff. Flight commands are being sent.
Watch live on Monday, April 19 at 3:15am PT (6:15am ET/1015 GMT) as the team finds out if they've made history by achieving the first powered flight on another planet. youtu.be/p1KolyCqICI
Travis Manderson retweeted
“Mind-bottling, isn't it?”
The blades of glory, aka rotor blades of the #MarsHelicopter, have been unlocked and are ready for testing. Next, we’ll do a slow-speed spin-up of the blades for the first time on the Martian surface. go.nasa.gov/ingenuity
Travis Manderson retweeted
#MarsHelicopter is on the flight field!
#MarsHelicopter touchdown confirmed! Its 293 million mile (471 million km) journey aboard @NASAPersevere ended with the final drop of 4 inches (10 cm) from the rover's belly to the surface of Mars today. Next milestone? Survive the night. go.nasa.gov/ingenuity
Travis Manderson retweeted
The #MarsHelicopter is getting ready to do some work! But first, Ingenuity and its team must hit critical milestones that include properly deploying onto the surface, surviving the bone-chilling nights and charging batteries with the craft’s solar array. go.nasa.gov/3ri3z5c
Travis Manderson retweeted
Your front-row seat to my Mars landing is here. Watch how we did it.
#CountdownToMars
Travis Manderson retweeted
I’m safe on Mars. Perseverance will get you anywhere.
#CountdownToMars
Travis Manderson retweeted
It’s the final #CountdownToMars! Watch mission control live as @NASAPersevere lands.
ETA 12:55pm PT (3:55pm ET, 20:55 GMT)
Live: go.nasa.gov/mars2020watchonl…
360: youtu.be/GIooAx_GkJs
Español: pscp.tv/NASA_es
Toolkit: go.nasa.gov/mars2020toolkit
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Travis Manderson retweeted
3/3 Joint work with amazing collaborators: @karimkoreitem @MandersonTravis Wei-Di Chang @juancamilog @gdudek
To appear at IROS2020
Check out our paper that we will be presenting at #RSS2020 today - Nav2Goal: Vision-Based Goal-Conditioned Policies for Underwater Navigation in the Presence of Obstacles
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2006.16235
Website: nav2goal.com
Our work on extracting goal-reaching controllers from unguided navigation and exploration behaviours for underwater robots will be presented at #RSS2020!
cim.mcgill.ca/mrl/nav2goal
Work by @MandersonTravis, Stefan Wapnick, @qcjefftqc, @florian_shkurti, @david_meger and @gdudek
Check out our paper appearing at ICRA on learning to drive off road using self-supervision: arxiv.org/abs/2004.04697
Learning to Drive Off Road on Smooth Terrain in Unstructured Environments Using an On-Board Camera and Sparse Aerial Images: title of our IEEE ICRA paper appearing tomorrow (Manderson,Wapnick,Meger,Dudek). Video version: ras.papercept.net/proceeding…
Travis Manderson retweeted
Targeting 3:22 p.m. EDT today for Falcon 9’s launch of Crew Dragon with two @NASA astronauts → spacex.com/launches
Travis Manderson retweeted
LIVE NOW: History is about to be made. Watch as @NASA_Astronauts #LaunchAmerica to the @Space_Station from American soil for the first time in nine years: xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1lDxLglol… xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1lDxLglol…
Travis Manderson retweeted
"Boy, you sure get a different perspective in this thing in zero g." — Astronaut Michael Collins
A new website lets you experience #Apollo11 as it happened in real time, 50 years ago. Here's how software developer Ben Feist built the project: go.nasa.gov/2jPu1qm #Apollo50th
Travis Manderson retweeted
Robotic friends roaming the grounds of #mars2019! Such an incredible first half of the day! #Robotics #MachineLearning #IoT #technology