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Week 16

Woohoo!! We’re so excited to see what you have to show off starting tomorrow :) Please read below for some pertinent end-of-term information.

Grades:

  • Projects 3 & 4 have been graded and published.
  • Homework 5 has been graded (solutions can be found here)
  • All regrade requests are due Sun 5/11 11:59pm

Final Projects Showcase:

  • Please check your showcase slot here, as it may have changed.
  • Though the food forms may have still been open, if you filled it out later than 5/1 11:59pm, your order was not placed.
  • Invite your friends and family to Showcase! If they can’t be there in person, you can share this Zoom link with them instead.
    • Meeting ID: 937 0556 5480
    • Passcode: showcase
    • Please note that your noted estimated start time is just that–an estimate. You should let your guests know that you may be presenting earlier or later than the indicated time.
    • This should, however, not matter for you personally! As a reminder, you are required to be at the entirety of your Showcase block. Showcase does not start on Berkeley time.
  • Please submit your slides link by 11:59pm. You must also verify that the slides AND any videos are viewable by anyone at UC Berkeley.
    • Please fill out this form by 11:59pm tonight! Only one member per team needs to fill it out.
    • Your slides do not have to be complete by 11:59pm tonight–just share the link to the presentation.
    • Please note: Failure to share slides and adjust permission settings as requested will impact your grade. If you do not share the link to the slides, you will not have slides as a resource during your presentation. If the videos are not shared, you will not be given a chance to change those settings while presenting and will have to forego showing the videos. This will almost definitely result in a lower final project score.

We’re very excited to see what you’ve been working on!

Week 15

Can you believe we’re already in the last week of classes?! How incredible!

Grades:

Final Projects:

  • Please see this Ed post for Showcase schedule, food forms, and software/hardware request forms and deadlines

General:

  • Please join us for our final lecture tomorrow, April 29, which will be a guest lecture from Giuseppe Loianno!
    • Professor Giuseppe Loianno, an expert on UAVs and swarms of UAVs, in particular, will be joining the EECS faculty as of July 1, 2025 moving to UC Berkeley from the Tandon School of Engineering at NYU. His lab will be on the 3rd floor of Cory Hall. In the last EECS 106B/206B class on April 29th he will give an overview of his recent work on swarms of UAVs and his research plans going forward.
    • We know so many of you are interested in UAVs, and we’re so lucky to have Prof. Loianno share his exciting work with us. Please help us give him a warm Berkeley welcome!
    • There will also be a sweet treat in tomorrow’s lecture to help you power through this last week of classes :)
  • Interested in learning more about robotics in academia and industry? Check out “Innovating Tomorrow: Robotics & AI for Global Impact,” which will take place on May 2nd at Cal. Find out more here.

Week 14

Woah! Week 14 already? We’re really in the home stretch now!

Projects:

  • Please check this Ed post for the feedback form for Project 4: Grasping, which is worth 5 points of extra credit.
    • A reminder that this extra credit is applied individually, not as a group. It is not sufficient for someone else in your group to have submitted the feedback. You must submit it yourself.

Final Projects:

  • Showcase schedule will be announced this week with the catering forms.

General:

  • Did you love 106A and are having a blast in 106B? Let us know if you’re interested in joining course staff next fall!
    • Please indicate your interest as quickly as possible, as we will likely hold interviews in the next few weeks before term ends.
    • Are you not necessarily interested in teaching, but interested in working with some robots over the summer? We may need help refreshing our labs this summer, so let us know on this form!

Week 13

Wow! You’ve made it already to week 13! That’s pretty incredible. We hope you’re able to reflect on how much you’ve been able to accomplish this term so far!

Projects:

Homework:

  • Homework 5: Grasping is due on 04/15 at 11:59pm
  • Please ensure that your Homeworks that have not yet been graded have the appropriate pages selected.
    • If you must submit a regrade request for pages not selected, please include in your request the page numbers of where the grader should be looking.

Discussion:

  • Discussion this week has been canceled. There are no more discussion sections this term.

Final Projects:

  • Proposal feedback will be released tonight. Please click through all the components of your grade as your TAs may have left feedback on different parts of the assignment.
  • We will also release a form for you to sign up for your Showcase presentation slots on Thursday and Friday of RRR Week. Please be sure to complete this form to be assigned a time you can attend.
  • As a reminder, we expect you to be working on some components of your final project in parallel with Project 4.
  • Your checkpoint is due 4/21 11:59pm on Gradescope

General:

  • This week’s lectures will be delivered by Prof. Koushil Sreenath, who occasionally teaches 106A. He will be discussing legged robots. He’s a great lecturer with lots of insights, so come out to see what he has to say!
  • We’re doing a lot of thinking about how to best serve our 106B students. Please take some time to fill out this form sharing your thoughts and experiences this term.
    • The form is entirely anonymous, so feel free to share your honest thoughts freely. We really benefit from your feedback!
    • As an incentive, we are offering 0.5% extra credit for students who fill out the form and submit a screenshot of the final page to Gradescope. (After submitting, it will remind you to take a screenshot of the page and submit). Please submit by 4/18.
  • Did you love 106A and are having a blast in 106B? Let us know if you’re interested in joining course staff next fall!
    • Please indicate your interest as quickly as possible, as we will likely hold interviews in the next few weeks before term ends.
    • Are you not necessarily interested in teaching, but interested in working with some robots over the summer? We may need help refreshing our labs this summer, so let us know on this form!
  • A friendly reminder of the CITRIS Autonomy Seminar talks! If you’re interested in robotics, these are great speakers to help provide additional info/context to the field!
  • Did you enjoy last week’s lectures from Kunal and Dvij? Express your interest in getting involved here!
  • Are you interested in research this summer? Check out this Ed post!

Week 12

Oh boy, we’re in the thick of it now!

Projects:

  • As a friendly reminder, Project 4: Grasping has been released. It is much less hand-holdy than your previous projects, so we highly recommend you start as soon as possible. It is due 4/17.

Homework:

If your solution has not been awarded points because you did not select pages, you must select them before submitting a regrade request, lest the graders will ignore your request.

Final Projects:

  • We received your proposals and are working through them! A TA will give you feedback on your proposals this week.
  • As a reminder, we expect you to be working on some components of your final project in parallel with Project 4.
  • Your checkpoint is due 4/21 11:59pm on Gradescope.

General:

  • We’re doing a lot of thinking about how to best serve our 106B students. Please take some time to fill out this form sharing your thoughts and experiences this term.
    • The form is entirely anonymous, so feel free to share your honest thoughts freely. We really benefit from your feedback!
    • As an incentive, we are offering 0.5% extra credit for students who fill out the form and submit a screenshot of the final page to Gradescope. (After submitting, it will remind you to take a screenshot of the page and submit). Please submit by 4/18
  • Did you love 106A and are having a blast in 106B? Let us know if you’re interested in joining course staff next fall!
    • Please indicate your interest as quickly as possible, as we will likely hold interviews before term ends
    • Are you not necessarily interested in teaching, but interested in working with some robots over the summer? We may need help refreshing our labs this summer, so let us know on this form!
  • A friendly reminder of the CITRIS Autonomy Seminar talks! If you’re interested in robotics, these are great speakers to help provide additional info/context to the field!

Week 11

Welcome back from spring break! We hope you were able to do whatever filled your cup, whether it be something fun or something restful.

Journal Club:

  • A gentle reminder that Journal Club attendance is a graded component of your grade.

Projects:

  • Project 4 is will come out this week and will be the last prescribed project

Homework:

Please select pages when submitting your homework. Failure to select pages when submitting a regrade request will result in those problems not being graded.

Final Projects:

  • Your final project proposal is due this Friday!
  • We will be changing the distribution of points for the final project because we’re adding a check-in. This check-in will be due 4/21 to make sure you’re on track for your final project.
    • This check in will be worth 5% of your final project grade, and the report will now be worth 55% instead of 60%
    • We will update the guidelines with this change soon.
    • Our expectation is that students will conduct a more in-depth literature review and begin final project work in parallel with Project 4.

General:

  • A friendly reminder of the CITRIS Autonomy Seminar talks! If you’re interested in robotics, these are great speakers to help provide additional info/context to the field!
  • Please keep your eyes open for a feedback form that we’ll be sending out. We have noticed different trends in how students are engaging with the course, and we want to find out more about how 106B can best serve students.
  • Are you interested in joining the teaching staff for 106AB? Keep an eye out for an interest form coming your way soon!

Week 9

Can you believe we’re already at week 9? And so close to spring break!

Journal Club:

  • A gentle reminder that Journal Club attendance is a graded component of your grade.

Projects:

Homework:

  • Homework 4: Filtering and Vision - due on 4/1 (Tuesday after break)
  • Homework 5 will be released that same day Please select pages when submitting your homework. Failure to select pages when submitting a regrade request will result in those problems not being graded.

Final Projects:

  • The final project spec will come out today or tomorrow for you to read over before discussion on Friday
  • Friday’s discussions will be lumped into one 3-5pm session in Cory 337. This is an opportunity for you to meet other potential team members and ask TAs for feedback on your final project ideas. There will be snacks!

General:

  • A friendly reminder of the CITRIS Autonomy Seminar talks! If you’re interested in robotics, these are great speakers to help provide additional info/context to the field!
  • Please keep your eyes open for a feedback form that we’ll be sending out. We have noticed different trends in how students are engaging with the course, and we want to find out more about how 106B can best serve students.

Week 8

Week 8! Isn’t that gr8?

Journal Club:

  • Please note Yarden’s 8am schedule change noted on Ed

Projects:

Homework:

General:

  • As a friendly reminder, we will be taking attendance in lecture and discussion to count towards EPA, and journal club is a required component of the class.
  • Final Project guidelines will be released next week, and discussion will be an opportunity to eat snacks and mingle with folks who still need to find teams/are interested in talking to TAs about potential ideas.

Happy week of Pi Day!

Week 1 - Welcome to EECS C106B/206B!

We’re extremely excited to have you! It’s going to be a great semester. We’ve spent a lot of time revamping the content, and we hope you will gain a lot out of this advanced robotics course. 106B/206B really pushes the envelope by diving into open research problems, building off the foundation established by 106A/206A.

This week: