Course Information
Course Title: Advanced Topics in Embodied Intelligence
Course ID: 263-5908-00L
Lecturers: Dr. Xi Wang
Teaching Assistants: Alexey Gavryushin
Venue: Tues. 16:15-18:00h, CAB G 52
Course Description :
This seminar provides an overview of techniques in the field of embodied intelligence. It aims to provide an overview of techniques in embodied intelligence, including perception, sensing, language and planning, and how these disciplines are integrated to build embodied intelligence. This seminar opens with basics in embodied intelligence and briefly reviews the main disciplines related to the topic. Students will read, present and discuss the papers selected for the course and gain an understanding of research in this area. Introduction slides will be online at the course website. There are no prerequisites for this seminar, however, it will help if the student has taken classes in machine learning or computer vision.
Workload
- Attend all classes and participate in discussions.
- Read 1-2 papers per week before each seminar meeting.
- Present paper and lead discussion once.
- Write a follow-up project proposal as a long abstract.
- Attendance is mandatory: Max. 2 absences - virtual option available in justified cases, e.g. sickness, travel, ... etc.
Slides & Paper List:
We provide slides as well as the paper list excel in ETH Google Workspace. Please use your ETH account to access the files.
Slides:
Paper List:
Speaker Schedule:
| Date | Speaker | Paper Link | Moderator |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 7 | Isotta Magistrali | Diffusion Policy | Simon Schlude |
| October 7 | Alessio Melone | EgoVLA | Pedro Martelleto |
| October 14 | Firat Gamsiz | OpenVLA | Amit Sant |
| October 14 | Simon Schlude | ECoT | Niklas Britz |
| October 21 | Pedro Martelleto | Video Policy | Hadrien Saigot |
| October 21 | Gabriele Mura | Vision Locomotion | Isotta Magistrali |
| October 28 | Yucheng Xia | VidBot | Rasan Younis |
| October 28 | Amit Sant | Robo-ABC | Andreas Frey |
| November 4 | Niklas Britz | SayCan | Jan Staszewicz |
| November 4 | Hadrien Saigot | DexGrasp Anything | Gabriele Mura |
| November 11 | Rasan Younis | FoundationPose | Ege Zorlutuna |
| November 11 | Louis Cresci | DenseMatcher | Elias Züllig |
| December 2 | Ege Zorlutuna | 3D-MOOD | Firat Gamsiz |
| December 2 | Jan Staszewicz | ConceptGraphs | Yucheng Xia |
| December 9 | Andreas Frey | Search3D | Louis Cresci |
| December 9 | Elias Züllig | UniDepth | Alessio Melone |