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Raghav Arora
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Grad student at UT Austin | Robotics and AI
https://raraghavarora.github.io/
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I am happy to share the completion of my MSE (at @utaustin.bsky.social ) with a major in ECE and a certification in Robotics by @texasrobotics.bsky.social.
I completed my thesis in, advised by Prof Peter Stone, and Prof Roberto Martín-Martín.
Thesis details: raraghavarora.github.io/anticipatory...
September 18, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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2 Robocups done ✅✅
July 9, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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July 6, 2026 at 4:02 AM
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Straight from RoboCup 2026, at Incheon, Korea.
We added an external lidar, and a literal backpack to the booster T1 to achieve accurate indoor localisation and navigation.
@texasrobotics.bsky.social #Robocup2026
July 6, 2026 at 4:01 AM
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I am graduating this summer from @utaustin.bsky.social with MS ECE, and @texasrobotics.bsky.social Certificate of Expertise in Robotics.
I am looking for full-time roles in Robotics and ML engineering.
At UT, my work has been on VLM‑guided TAMP, RL and deployment on HSR and humanoid platforms.
March 23, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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Morning.
March 12, 2026 at 4:53 AM
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I made a painting, to highlight the contributions of our work CoCo-TAMP - Commonsense Correlational Task and Motion Planner coco-tamp.github.io

We add commonsense knowledge to Task and Motion Planning using correlation based state-estimation and belief update.
ICRA 2026
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Painting made with acrylic and gouache paints, which mimics the poster for the Pixar movie Coco. It features two people standing on a bridge made of yellow-orange petals holding guitars. One is a young kid wearing a red hoodie and blue pants with a brown guitar. The second person is a skeleton wearing red shirt, brown pants, and light brown hat. He is also holding a brown guitar. Both the skeleton and the boy do now have fingers because the author (and painter) of this does not know how to draw and paint fingers properly. In the background, fireworks are going off to celebrate the Day of the dead (Día de (los) Muertos), and on top is written COCO TAMP. COCO TAMP stands for Commonsense correlational Task and Motion Planner, and this poster uses the familiarity of the research name with the pixar movie coco.
March 9, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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Saying Sorry (Part 3/4)
Saying Sorry (Part 3/4) Characters August - Alligator - A soft spoken single father who works in IT. Fergus - Alligator - A grandpa who has been chewed up by the world but is doing his best. August's father. Transcript Panel 1 August's dad, Fergus, has stopped by to drop off a gift and apologize for something that happened in August's childhood. Fergus is not the best as expressing his feelings so he's doing his best to speak carefully and honestly. August has made some coffee. He hands a mug to his dad that says "MUG" while August holds one for himself that says "SON of MUG". August is secretly delighted at the opportunity to use these mugs. Fergus: I didn't mean to get emotional. I'm sorry. Panel 2 Fergus just flat out says what he came to say. Fergus: I remembered that time I burned your toys. You didn't deserve that. Panel 3 Fergus looks away for a moment. He wants to make sure he apologizes without making excuses for himself like his own father used to. Fergus: I should have been a better dad to you and your sisters. I'm sorry that I was so hurtful and angry. Panel 4 Fergus: Being someone's parent is hard. Being someone's kid shouldn't be.
February 11, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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Cursor is sooooo bad with conda environments...
Like please just use the environment I'm telling you to use!
February 10, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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Docker build taking so long that I started painting. Now painting is done, but docker is still running ;/
A round watercolor painting of autumn trees. Painted with wet-on-wet technique to keep all the colours inside a circle making it look like autumn in a circle.
January 28, 2026 at 2:42 AM
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We're here because we're here because we're here
December 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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One good thing I did this year.
#goodreads
#books
December 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Just finished my favourite course at UT Austin, and the prof melted my heart by awarding students for their efforts in the course!
🥹
A certificate from the Neural Engineering Class - Fall 2025, awarded to the student Raghav Arora by the course professor Samantha Santacruz. The text says: "The Neural Engineering Class - Fall 2025 certifies that Raghav Arora has learned multiple neural engineering methodologies and is therefor awarded Deep Learning Legend, December 4th 2025. BME 384J-7, Samantha R. Santacruz, PhD Course Professor"
December 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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My favourite fiction writer (and football enthusiast) consistently winning the best book in non-fiction category is a treat to my eyes.
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#goodreads
Goodreads choice awards showing the winner of 2025 non-fiction category. John Green' Everything is Tuberculosis is shown as the winner of 2025 non-fiction category.
December 5, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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"This is a fantastic and crucial question, that goes to the very core of our approach"
October 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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With students coming back to campus, I'm already missing how peaceful everything was over the summer!
August 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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On a gloomy day, posts from @postcrossing.com bring a smile on my face
August 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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For cat in a box, we should be able to do both...

#Schrodingerscat
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July 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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I recently decided to paint my dear plants with my favourite movie characters.

Guess which movies I saw recently?
5 succulent plants with painted pots. From left to right: Pot1: Anger from inside out Pot2: Elio from pixar's Elio Pot3: stitch from lilo & stitch Pot4: toothless from how to train your dragon Pot5: Mike Wazowski from Monsters inc.
June 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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After having sent around 20 postcards to strangers on @postcrossing.com (& other), I am surprised that many people don't like self-made personalized cards and prefer printed ones.

I can never understand this! In what world is a mass-produced postcard more liked than a personalized card?
June 16, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Every once in a while, I install Instagram to share something with friends.

Being away from it, hits how insanely addictive the reels are.

It's almost like frog in boiling water effect where using it daily makes you accustomed without realising the effects it has on the health.
June 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Getting a new plant this Earth day!
😃
#EarthDay
April 23, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Pretty cute, and overall impressive!
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The humanoid robot half-marathon in Beijing.
April 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Lo and behold, 'anger' takes over Riley
Painting of anger from inside out on a succulent pot named Riley
March 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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I made a starter pack for researchers in probabilistic machine learning.

DM/reply if you want to be added!

go.bsky.app/DuCtJqC
November 18, 2024 at 2:00 AM