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

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.

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A Turing Test for Self Awareness

A Turing Test for Self Awareness

Cameron Witkowski

Can we imagine an empirical test for whether a machine or AI system is self-aware?

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