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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 2d

'Papa, was ist das?'

As a parent, Gemini has made my life massively easier. We found this caterpillar earlier and the answer is in fact correct (verification is much easier than generation thanks to classical Google search)

Very curious about how LLMs are continuing to change the ways we learn!

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 11d

The position paper track at #NeurIPS2025 was a great idea, the acceptance rate of under 6% not so much!

This is unnecessarily low and will reduce interest in any future iterations of the track.

(Disclaimer: our team is part of the 94%)

@NeurIPSConf

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 11d

If you want one brain for any robot, cross-embodiment learning is the key. Check out the new model and tech report for sparks of it share.google/H5RBiwtCWnW7...

And catch up with the team (unfortunately without me this year) at #CORL2025!

More here:
x.com/sundarpichai...

share.google

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · Sep 4

Control problems are everywhere, but some applications of Reinforcement Learning are truly out of this world! 🌌

Our team's latest research @ Google DeepMind in #Science shows RL can improve sensitivity by 30-100x.

See how RL can accelerate cosmic discovery!👇 (Image #nanobanana)
lnkd.in/e8r7t3NJ

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · Jul 15

Other companies folded or dropped their divisions.

They've given up too early. Congratulations, not easy to accept you have been wrong and lucky I had no bets. Lots of learnings. Now to scaling the rest of robotics!

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · Jul 15

#Robotics is hard, and so is #AutonomousDriving! Massive congratulations to my friends at #Waymo for proving me wrong!

x.com/Waymo/status...

There was a time a couple years back when I was getting skeptical about the scale of both technological and societal challenges for scaling autonomy....

Waymo on X: "100 million real world, fully autonomous miles driven on public roads. That’s more than 200 trips to the Moon and back. Thank you riders. https://t.co/2EcE4Oqxnu" / X

100 million real world, fully autonomous miles driven on public roads. That’s more than 200 trips to the Moon and back. Thank you riders. https://t.co/2EcE4Oqxnu

x.com

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · Jun 27

Massive props to everyone organizing the #RSS2025 demo. I'm having a massive amount of fomo here.

Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · Jun 27

Large language and vision models alone don't solve the whole #robotics problem.
But they surely have a massive impact on generalisation and robustness!

New scenes, new backgrounds, new objects, new people, new language and audio....

x.com/ayzwah/statu...

Ayzaan Wahid on X: "We took a robot to RSS in LA running our new Gemini Robotics On-Device VLA model. People interacted with the model with new objects and instructions in a brand new environment and the results were amazing! https://t.co/0qZiGK2h0g" / X

We took a robot to RSS in LA running our new Gemini Robotics On-Device VLA model. People interacted with the model with new objects and instructions in a brand new environment and the results were amazing! https://t.co/0qZiGK2h0g

x.com

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · Jun 24

Don't have a robot? Try our newest Gemini Robotics on-Device VLA in simulation!

Or become a trusted tester and tune and adapt the model yourself!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVMY...

Gemini Robotics on-device in simulation

YouTube video by Google DeepMind

www.youtube.com

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · Jun 24

Thrilled to share something new: Fast, robust, and increasingly intelligent 🧠 🤖

Truly proud of our team and hoping you'll enjoy the model!

x.com/GoogleDeepMi...

Google DeepMind on X: "We’re bringing powerful AI directly onto robots with Gemini Robotics On-Device. 🤖 It’s our first vision-language-action model to help make robots faster, highly efficient, and adaptable to new tasks and environments - without needing a constant internet connection. 🧵 https://t.co/1Y21D3cF5t" / X

We’re bringing powerful AI directly onto robots with Gemini Robotics On-Device. 🤖 It’s our first vision-language-action model to help make robots faster, highly efficient, and adaptable to new tasks and environments - without needing a constant internet connection. 🧵 https://t.co/1Y21D3cF5t

x.com

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · Jun 18

The hardest problem with RL for robots is not RL!

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · Jun 16

Are there any great summary posts from @huggingface 's #LeRobot hackathon?

What works, what doesn't, how many robots broken ...? 🤖

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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · May 22

Ever thought of joining DeepMind's RL team? We're recruiting for a research engineering role in London:
job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
Please spread the word!

Research Engineer, Reinforcement Learning

London, UK

job-boards.greenhouse.io

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · May 23

Looking forward to talking about how much multiagentness do we need for multiagent RL for #robot soccer and other real world applications!

In half an hour at the #Robolethics workshop #ICRA2025 @GoogleDeepMind

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · May 20

If you blink, you've missed it! Demis Hassabis showing a glance into the future of robotics and vision language action models!

#GoogleDeepMind #GoogleIO #robotics

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · May 20

Looking forward to #ICRA2025 ! Find me (remotely) during the workshops and catch up on large-scale RL, IL, and multi agent learning with a side of vision language action models!

Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · Apr 28

Agentic LLMs need to explore! The web is a non-stationary, highly partially unobservable 🏔️.

Thomas #GoogleDeepMind internship systematically investigates current challenges and the role of scale, RL, and chain-of-thought reasoning to overcome them.

arxiv.org/abs/2504.16078

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · Apr 24

Organisation: Andrey Kolobov, Alex Bewley, Hamidreza Kasaei, Anqi Li, Dhruv Shah, Ted Xiao, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Feras Dayoub, Rika Antonova, Roberto Calandra, Nur Shafiullah, Masha Itkina, Jonathan Tompson

Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · Apr 24

With talks from Sandy Huang, Joseph Lim, Coline Devin, Davide Scaramuzza, Chris Paxton, David Hsu, Chelsea Finn

Google DeepMind KAIST Universität Zürich Hello Robot Inc National University of Singapore Physical Intelligence Stanford University Microsoft Research

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · Apr 24

Visiting #ICLR2025? Join for the 7th iteration of the #RobotLearning workshop 🤖🧠 (rather than the usual at NeurIPS)! Rather than human-like form, how far are we from human-level abilities?

Join the fun in person (while I will be cheering the team from London)!

www.robot-learning.ml/2025/

7th Robot Learning Workshop: Towards Robots with Human-Level Abilities

@ICLR 2025 27 April Singapore EXPO Garnet 216 & 217

www.robot-learning.ml

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · Apr 11

Thanks to OpenAI for sharing these discussions on on challenges with GPT4.5 and a bit more 'openness' 😉

Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · Apr 11

As data becomes more valuable than compute, being able to invest compute to extract more information from the same amount of data is invaluable!

youtu.be/6nJZopACRuQ?...

Apprenticeship learning, inverse RL, ... are becoming really interesting again! proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/...

Pre-Training GPT-4.5

YouTube video by OpenAI

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · Apr 10

Deadline May 15th! The Google #PhDFellowship applications are open! Many fantastic friends are mentoring this year.

Check out research areas and details here research.google/programs-and...

Google PhD fellowship program

The Google PhD Fellowship Program recognizes outstanding graduate students doing exceptional work in computer science, related disciplines, or promising research areas.

research.google

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · Mar 14

Needing #selfdriving, #reinforcementlearning, and #llm reviewers for #IROS2025 ! Please reach out.

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Jakob Foerster @jfoerst.bsky.social · Mar 12

My group @FLAIR_Ox is recruiting a postdoc and looking for someone who can get started by the end of April. Deadline to apply is in one week (!), 19th of March at noon, so please help spread the word: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Job Details

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