Jonathan Kelly
Professor @ University of Toronto Institute Aerospace Studies and Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Robotics
- Still two weeks to get your applications in! Particular interest in 4D perceptual representations, manipulation, geometric methods, and compositional modelling.
- 🚨 We're recruiting MASc & PhD students for 2026! Work at the intersection of robot perception, planning & manipulation—from theory to real robots. We welcome physics, math, CS & engineering applicants. 2 weeks left to apply: www.utias.utoronto.ca/admissions/
- Context is key. The built-in dictation tool in macOS keeps insisting I want "kale divergence" 🥬. Nothing wrong with kale, just hard to use it as the loss function for a network 😂.
- Reposted by Jonathan KellyJust show me what you want, and I'll figure out how to do it...quickly! PhD candidate Trevor Ablett will present Efficient Imitation without Demonstrations via Value-Penalized Auxiliary Control from Examples (VPACE) at #ICRA25 tomorrow! Check it out: papers.starslab.ca/vpace
- Reposted by Jonathan KellyPush it to the (demonstrated) limit! To complete difficult tasks with complex contact, our latest work combines a tactile force matching algorithm with imitation learning (IL). PhD candidate Trevor Ablett will present this T-RO work at #ICRA25 tomorrow! Learn about it: papers.starslab.ca/sts-il/
- Reposted by Jonathan KellyCheck out "FaVoR: Features via Voxel Rendering for Camera Relocalization" by PhD student Vincenzo Polizzi, presented at #WACV25! Kudos to collaborators Marco Cannici, @davidescaramuzza.bsky.social and @domo-mr-roboto.bsky.social youtu.be/rgV8TZzX7qc
- Reposted by Jonathan KellyIn a recent T-RO paper, researchers show how complex manipulation tasks that require both precise reaching and controlled slipping or sliding can benefit from see-through visuotactile sensing. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/108... #RobotSensingSystems #TactileSensor #ImitationLearning
