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01 / ATLAS

ATLAS

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Concepts and the prerequisites between them.

Mathematics & Statistics

The quantitative language for learning, estimation, geometry, and uncertainty.

Foundations
Programming & Software

The software abstractions that make experiments reproducible and systems maintainable.

Foundations
Computer Science

Algorithms, systems, networking, and concurrency beneath intelligent machines.

Foundations
Electronics & Embedded Systems

Real-time hardware, sensors, and actuators where computation meets the physical world.

Foundations
Machine Learning

Learning useful structure from data, objectives, and feedback.

Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning

Differentiable representations optimized from data and objectives.

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision

Turning images and video into structured state, identity, and affordances.

Artificial Intelligence
Language Models & LLMs

Language models as predictors, representations, and interfaces for tools.

Artificial Intelligence
Multimodal Learning & VLMs

Aligning visual and language representations so models can ground symbols in scenes.

Artificial Intelligence
Reinforcement Learning

Policies learned through rewards, interaction, and long-horizon consequences.

Artificial Intelligence
AI Agents & Agentic Systems

Models, tools, memory, and feedback loops organized around goals.

Artificial Intelligence
Robot Mechanics, Kinematics & Control

The physical models and feedback laws that make motion predictable and controllable.

Robotics
Sensing & Robot Perception

Sensors and estimators that turn imperfect measurements into usable state.

Robotics
SLAM & Navigation

Localization, mapping, planning, and control coordinated under motion constraints.

Robotics
Robot Software Systems & Communication

Middleware, communication, and runtime structure for composing robot systems.

Robotics
Manipulation & Grasping

Contact, grasp, and motion planning for robots that handle the physical world.

Robotics
Legged & Humanoid Robotics

Balance, locomotion, and whole-body motion under contact and embodiment.

Robotics
Robotics Simulation & Toolchains

Simulation environments and digital twins for testing learning and control safely.

Robotics
Embodied Perception & Spatial Intelligence

Perception that is situated, active, and useful for choosing what to do next.

Embodied Intelligence
Embodied Navigation

Wayfinding and exploration grounded in language, geometry, and action.

Embodied Intelligence
Embodied Manipulation & Dexterity

Long-horizon, contact-rich manipulation organized around affordances and feedback.

Embodied Intelligence
Humanoid & Whole-Body Intelligence

Whole-body policies and contact-aware skills for humanoid agents.

Embodied Intelligence
Robot Foundation Models & VLA

Vision-language-action models that connect perception, language, and robot policy.

Embodied Intelligence
World Models & Embodied Memory

Predictive state, dynamics, and memory for imagining what an action may cause.

Embodied Intelligence
Embodied Agents & Long-Horizon Autonomy

Agents that plan, remember, recover, and act over extended physical tasks.

Embodied Intelligence
Robot Learning & Policy Learning

Policies learned from demonstrations, rewards, and repeated interaction with a robot.

Embodied Intelligence
Embodied Data, Simulation & Sim-to-Real

Demonstrations, synthetic worlds, and transfer procedures that make robot learning scalable.

Embodied Intelligence
02 / BLOG

BLOG

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Explanations, notes, and working lessons.

03 / PROJECTS

PROJECTS

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Open systems with evidence attached.

04 / PAPERS

PAPERS

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Research read as a living trail.