Research
A selection of papers and other interesting work from our members.
Recent work
OLiVia-Nav: An Online Lifelong Vision Language Approach for Mobile Robot Social Navigation
Siddarth Narasimhan
By leveraging large vision-language models (VLMs) and a novel distillation process called SC-CLIP, OLiVia-Nav efficiently encodes social and environmental contexts, adapting to dynamic human environments.
A Turing Test for Self Awareness
Cameron Witkowski
Can we imagine an empirical test for whether a machine or AI system is self-aware?