Fall 2026 · University of Maryland, College Park
| When | Every Tuesday, 5:00–6:00 pm |
| Term | Sep 8 – Dec 8, 2026 |
| Organizer | GAMMA, UMD |
An informal weekly reading group for graduate students interested in robot learning — manipulation, humanoid control, visuomotor policies, world models, and robotic foundation models. For the Fall 2026 semester, we are planning to focus more on robotic manipulation. Each week one person presents one or two recent papers and we discuss them together. Anyone is welcome to attend, and anyone can sign up to present.
Want to present? Pick a Tuesday from the schedule below and email Rocktim. Open slots are marked TBD.
| Wk | Date | Session |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 8 |
Kickoff Reading Group Introduction & Overview Rocktim Jyoti Das · slides |
| 2 | Sep 15 |
No meeting ICRA deadline — no reading group |
| 3 | Sep 22 |
Paper presentation SkildAI S1 & Generalist Gen 1.5 Rocktim Jyoti Das |
| 4 | Sep 29 |
Paper presentation WorldLabs Atlas Hyunjin Kim |
| 5 | Oct 6 |
Paper presentation Forceband Leo Wang |
| 6 | Oct 13 | Paper presentation TBD |
| 7 | Oct 20 | Paper presentation TBD |
| 8 | Oct 27 | Paper presentation TBD |
| 9 | Nov 3 | Paper presentation TBD |
| 10 | Nov 10 | Paper presentation TBD |
| 11 | Nov 17 | Paper presentation TBD |
| 12 | Nov 24 | Paper presentation TBD (Thanksgiving week) |
| 13 | Dec 1 | Paper presentation TBD |
| 14 | Dec 8 | Paper presentation TBD |