# Stretch Community News - May 2023

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**Created:** [June 1, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-may-2023/748 "2023-06-01T01:06:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 1, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-may-2023/748/1 "2023-06-01T01:06:03Z")

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Welcome to the Hello Robot monthly community update! If you’d like to see your work featured in a future newsletter or on the [Stretch Community Repo](https://github.com/hello-robot/stretch_community), drop us a line at [community@hello-robot.com](mailto:community@hello-robot.com).

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In order to follow open-ended instructions, robots require an understanding of both the scene geometry and the semantics of their environment. Researchers at Meta have released **USA Net** , a simple method for **integrating both the semantics and spatial affordances of a scene** in a differentiable map. [Learn More](https://usa.bolte.cc/)

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Want to understand Stretch’s navigation stack in more detail? Next up in Hello Robot’s **series of video workshops** will focus on **Stretch Navigation and Nav2.** The workshop will be presented on June 28th live on Google Meet, with a recording posted on [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrN8osvSdc2-QjF3MlLd57ChTiJYgZg11). [Learn More](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-navigation-workshop-june-28st/747)

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The fourth annual **Embodied AI workshop** at CVPR will take place in Vancouver on June 19 - join the Embodied research community for some exciting presentations, challenges, and discussions about foundation models, generalist agents, sim-to-real transfer, and more! [Learn More](http://embodied-ai.org)

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Researchers from Georgia Tech, Seoul National University, and Meta published a new motion retargeting framework, Adversarial Correspondence Embedding, for **translating human movements into semantically equivalent motions** for robots with very different morphologies like Stretch. [Learn More](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.14792.pdf)

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Stretch was front and center at several conferences in May. UIUC’s Dr. Samuel Olatunji presented _A participatory design project to evaluate benefits and workload costs for a domestic assistive robot_ at the **International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care** ; and Dr. Vy Nguyen gave an occupational therapist’s perspective on using robots to assist persons with disabilities at the **Robotics Summit and Expo**. [Learn More](https://hfeshcs2023.conference-program.com/presentation/?id=INDLEC236&sess=sess104)

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**Want to see your work showcased in the next Community Newsletter? Share it with us at** [**community@hello-robot.com**](mailto:community@hello-robot.com) **!**