Heyhey I'm

Florian Golemo

I'm a postdoc in robotics and 3D perception at Mila / McGill University in Montreal 🇨🇦.
My goal is to develop useful low-cost robotic assistants that understand their surroundings.
I'm into electronics, shitty robots, game development and indie games, 3D printing, electronic music, bouldering, board games, web dev, and TTRPGs.

Education

  • 🇩🇪 B.Sc. Uni Leipzig - C.S. & CogSci
  • 🇳🇱 M.Sc. VU Amsterdam - AI & CogSci
  • 🇫🇷 Ph.D. INRIA Bordeaux - Robotics & 3D

Links

  • Twitter
  • Google Scholar
  • Github
  • CV

Interests

Robotics

Short version: I want to build smart and useful robots for everyday use.
Longer version: I'm interested in a range of different robot capabilities but particularly the following:

  • Simulation environments and Sim2Real methods (TODO: link to projects below).
  • Quadruped robots as guide dogs for Blind and Visually-Impaired (BVI) people.
  • Motion-forecasting and planning for self-driving cars and other autonomous vehicles.
I particularly focus on low-cost aka "shoddy" robots, to make experimentation have faster turn-around time and with the idea that if an algorithm works on a shitty robot, it will probably also work on a higher-end one.

3D perception

Yes, I'm aware that the 3D model of my head has an extremely crooked nose. I have to cut corners (or vertices) somewhere, okay?
Anyway, creating detailed 3D environments usually takes a lot of manual labor and I want to get rid of some of that. Specifically, I'm interested in the automatic creation of simulators. In my perfect future, you can take a short video with your phone of a workspace and create a full 3D sim of the environment which includes separable objects that can be picked up in sim.
This line of work is useful for robot training (if you can make a simulator in minutes vs days), for safety control (testing how a system would behave in a new context) and in general, for robot adding capabilities (if this is part of a perception pipeline, the robot can plan with object affordances).






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I've only juuust relaunched this website so bear with me. I'm gonna add more content over the next week or two.
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