Data Scaling Laws in Imitation Learning for Robotic Manipulation
Embodied Agent Interface: Benchmarking LLMs for Embodied Decision Making
Optically Actuated Soft Microrobot Family for Single-Cell Manipulation
Piecing Together the Secrets of the Stasi: After the Berlin Wall fell, agents of East Germany’s secret police frantically tore apart their records. Archivists have spent the past 30 years trying to restore them
VERO: A vacuum-cleaner-equipped quadruped robot for efficient litter removal
Machine learning reveals the control mechanics of an insect wing hinge
Universal chemical programming language for robotic synthesis repeatability
Mobile ALOHA: Learning Bimanual Mobile Manipulation with Low-Cost Whole-Body Teleoperation
Robotic Microinjection Enables Large-Scale Transgenic Studies of Caenorhabditis Elegans
Comparison of Waymo Rider-Only Crash Data to Human Benchmarks at 7.1 Million Miles
Mastering Stacking of Diverse Shapes with Large-Scale Iterative Reinforcement Learning on Real Robots
ReCoRe: Regularized Contrastive Representation Learning of World Model
Eureka: Human-Level Reward Design via Coding Large Language Models
Q-Transformer: Scalable Offline Reinforcement Learning via Autoregressive Q-Functions
Deep RL at Scale: Sorting Waste in Office Buildings with a Fleet of Mobile Manipulators
Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep Reinforcement Learning
ACT: Learning Fine-Grained Bimanual Manipulation with Low-Cost Hardware
LLM+P: Empowering Large Language Models with Optimal Planning Proficiency
Bubble-Based Microrobots with Rapid Circular Motions for Epithelial Pinning and Drug Delivery
ChemCrow: Augmenting large-language models with chemistry tools
The Characteristics and Geographic Distribution of Robot Hubs in US Manufacturing Establishments
MimicPlay: Long-Horizon Imitation Learning by Watching Human Play
Embedding Synthetic Off-Policy Experience for Autonomous Driving via Zero-Shot Curricula
Offline Q-Learning on Diverse Multi-Task Data Both Scales And Generalizes
Legged Locomotion in Challenging Terrains using Egocentric Vision
Creating a Dynamic Quadrupedal Robotic Goalkeeper with Reinforcement Learning
DALL·E-Bot: Introducing Web-Scale Diffusion Models to Robotics
Selective neutralization and deterring of cockroaches with laser automated by machine vision
Versatile articulated aerial robot DRAGON: Aerial manipulation and grasping by vectorable thrust control
PI-ARS: Accelerating Evolution-Learned Visual-Locomotion with Predictive Information Representations
Semantic Abstraction (SemAbs): Open-World 3D Scene Understanding from 2D Vision-Language Models
Inner Monologue: Embodied Reasoning through Planning with Language Models
LM-Nav: Robotic Navigation with Large Pre-Trained Models of Language, Vision, and Action
Watch and Match: Supercharging Imitation with Regularized Optimal Transport
Fleet-DAgger: Interactive Robot Fleet Learning with Scalable Human Supervision
ADAPT: Vision-Language Navigation with Modality-Aligned Action Prompts
Housekeep: Tidying Virtual Households using Commonsense Reasoning
Can Foundation Models Perform Zero-Shot Task Specification For Robot Manipulation?
Semantic Exploration from Language Abstractions and Pretrained Representations
Habitat-Web: Learning Embodied Object-Search Strategies from Human Demonstrations at Scale
Demonstrate Once, Imitate Immediately (DOME): Learning Visual Servoing for One-Shot Imitation Learning
Do As I Can, Not As I Say (SayCan): Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances
Socratic Models: Composing Zero-Shot Multimodal Reasoning with Language
CLIP on Wheels (CoW): Zero-Shot Object Navigation as Object Localization and Exploration
Robot peels banana with goal-conditioned dual-action deep imitation learning
SURF: Semi-supervised Reward Learning with Data Augmentation for Feedback-efficient Preference-based Reinforcement Learning
The Unsurprising Effectiveness of Pre-Trained Vision Models for Control
VAPO: Affordance Learning from Play for Sample-Efficient Policy Learning
Concurrent Training of a Control Policy and a State Estimator for Dynamic and Robust Legged Locomotion
LID: Pre-Trained Language Models for Interactive Decision-Making
Accelerated Quality-Diversity for Robotics through Massive Parallelism
Surprisingly Robust In-Hand Manipulation: An Empirical Study
Evolution Gym: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Evolving Soft Robots
Learning robust perceptive locomotion for quadrupedal robots in the wild
Language Models as Zero-Shot Planners: Extracting Actionable Knowledge for Embodied Agents
Gastrointestinal Interoception in Eating Disorders: Charting a New Path
AW-Opt: Learning Robotic Skills with Imitation and Reinforcement at Scale
BC-Z: Zero-Shot Task Generalization with Robotic Imitation Learning
Learning Behaviors through Physics-driven Latent Imagination
Beyond Pick-and-Place: Tackling Robotic Stacking of Diverse Shapes
Legged Robots that Keep on Learning: Fine-Tuning Locomotion Policies in the Real World
Bridge Data: Boosting Generalization of Robotic Skills with Cross-Domain Datasets
Learning to Walk in Minutes Using Massively Parallel Deep Reinforcement Learning
A Workflow for Offline Model-Free Robotic Reinforcement Learning
Example-Driven Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Solving Long-Horizon Visuomotor Tasks
PlaTe: Visually-Grounded Planning with Transformers in Procedural Tasks
Learning Language-Conditioned Robot Behavior from Offline Data and Crowd-Sourced Annotation
Isaac Gym: High Performance GPU-Based Physics Simulation For Robot Learning
DexMV: Imitation Learning for Dexterous Manipulation from Human Videos
Learning to See before Learning to Act: Visual Pre-training for Manipulation
Coarse-to-Fine Q-attention: Efficient Learning for Visual Robotic Manipulation via Discretisation
Neural Tree Expansion for Multi-Robot Planning in Non-Cooperative Environments
Waymo Simulated Driving Behavior in Reconstructed Fatal Crashes within an Autonomous Vehicle Operating Domain
Latent Imagination Facilitates Zero-Shot Transfer in Autonomous Racing
Replaying real life: how the Waymo Driver avoids fatal human crashes
Asymmetric self-play for automatic goal discovery in robotic manipulation
Unlocking Pixels for Reinforcement Learning via Implicit Attention
MAP-Elites Enables Powerful Stepping Stones and Diversity for Modular Robotics
Learning Accurate Long-term Dynamics for Model-based Reinforcement Learning
Autonomous navigation of stratospheric balloons using reinforcement learning
MoGaze: A Dataset of Full-Body Motions that Includes Workspace Geometry and Eye-Gaze
Multimodal dynamics modeling for off-road autonomous vehicles
RetinaGAN: An Object-aware Approach to Sim-to-Real Transfer
Hypersim: A Photorealistic Synthetic Dataset for Holistic Indoor Scene Understanding
MELD: Meta-Reinforcement Learning from Images via Latent State Models
An adaptive deep reinforcement learning framework enables curling robots with human-like performance in real-world conditions
Meta-Learning through Hebbian Plasticity in Random Networks
Sample Factory: Egocentric 3D Control from Pixels at 100,000 FPS with Asynchronous Reinforcement Learning
Effectiveness of the Felixer grooming trap for the control of feral cats: a field trial in arid South Australia
Active Preference-Based Gaussian Process Regression for Reward Learning
VLN-BERT: Improving Vision-and-Language Navigation with Image-Text Pairs from the Web
AI-Powered Rat Could Be a Valuable New Tool for Neuroscience: Researchers from DeepMind and Harvard are using a virtual rat to see what neural networks can teach us about biology
Never Stop Learning: The Effectiveness of Fine-Tuning in Robotic Reinforcement Learning
Learning Agile Robotic Locomotion Skills by Imitating Animals
Learning to Fly via Deep Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Learning to Walk in the Real World with Minimal Human Effort
In the 1970s, the CIA Created a Robot Dragonfly Spy. Now We Know How It Works. Newly released documents show how the CIA created one of the world’s first examples of insect robotics.
The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world: The AI moonshot was founded in the spirit of transparency. This is the inside story of how competitive pressure eroded that idealism
Remote-controlled insect navigation using plasmonic nanotattoos
AI Helps Warehouse Robots Pick Up New Tricks: Backed by machine learning luminaries, Covariant.ai’s bots can handle jobs previously needing a human touch
First-in-human evaluation of a hand-held automated venipuncture device for rapid venous blood draws
Near-perfect point-goal navigation from 2.5 billion frames of experience
Reinforcement Learning Upside Down: Don’t Predict Rewards—Just Map Them to Actions
Increasing Generality in Machine Learning through Procedural Content Generation
SwarmCloak: Landing of a Swarm of Nano-Quadrotors on Human Arms
Scaling Robot Supervision to Hundreds of Hours with RoboTurk: Robotic Manipulation Dataset through Human Reasoning and Dexterity
DD-PPO: Learning Near-Perfect PointGoal Navigators from 2.5 Billion Frames
Meta-World: A Benchmark and Evaluation for Multi-Task and Meta Reinforcement Learning
Scaling data-driven robotics with reward sketching and batch reinforcement learning
Learning to Seek: Autonomous Source Seeking with Deep Reinforcement Learning Onboard a Nano Drone Microcontroller
ROBEL: Robotics Benchmarks for Learning with Low-Cost Robots
TuneNet: One-Shot Residual Tuning for System Identification and Sim-to-Real Robot Task Transfer
The Robot Revolution: Managerial and Employment Consequences for Firms
An Application of Reinforcement Learning to Aerobatic Helicopter Flight
AI-GAs: AI-generating algorithms, an alternate paradigm for producing general artificial intelligence
Adversarial Policies: Attacking Deep Reinforcement Learning
End-to-End Robotic Reinforcement Learning without Reward Engineering
The RobotriX: An eXtremely Photorealistic and Very-Large-Scale Indoor Dataset of Sequences with Robot Trajectories and Interactions
Living with Harmony: A Personal Companion System by Realbotix™
Sim-to-Real via Sim-to-Sim: Data-efficient Robotic Grasping via Randomized-to-Canonical Adaptation Networks
ChauffeurNet: Learning to Drive by Imitating the Best and Synthesizing the Worst
Visual Foresight: Model-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Robotic Control
Organic synthesis in a modular robotic system driven by a chemical programming language
Neural probabilistic motor primitives for humanoid control
Benchmarking Reinforcement Learning Algorithms on Real-World Robots
Fully Distributed Multi-Robot Collision Avoidance via Deep Reinforcement Learning for Safe and Efficient Navigation in Complex Scenarios
Robot Learning in Homes: Improving Generalization and Reducing Dataset Bias
QT-Opt: Scalable Deep Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Robotic Manipulation
Adversarial Active Exploration for Inverse Dynamics Model Learning
More Than a Feeling: Learning to Grasp and Regrasp using Vision and Touch
Synthesizing Programs for Images using Reinforced Adversarial Learning
One-Shot Imitation from Observing Humans via Domain-Adaptive Meta-Learning
Neural Network Based Reinforcement Learning for Audio-Visual Gaze Control in Human-Robot Interaction
The signature of robot action success in EEG signals of a human observer: Decoding and visualization using deep convolutional neural networks
Sim-to-Real Transfer of Robotic Control with Dynamics Randomization
Flow: A Modular Learning Framework for Mixed Autonomy Traffic
PRM-RL: Long-range Robotic Navigation Tasks by Combining Reinforcement Learning and Sampling-based Planning
GraspGAN: Using Simulation and Domain Adaptation to Improve Efficiency of Deep Robotic Grasping
Using Parameterized Black-Box Priors to Scale Up Model-Based Policy Search for Robotics
The Intentional Unintentional Agent: Learning to Solve Many Continuous Control Tasks Simultaneously
Semi-Supervised Haptic Material Recognition for Robots using Generative Adversarial Networks
Vision-Based Multi-Task Manipulation for Inexpensive Robots Using End-To-End Learning from Demonstration
Data-efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dexterous Manipulation
Sim-to-Real Robot Learning from Pixels with Progressive Nets
Supervision via Competition: Robot Adversaries for Learning Tasks
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation with Asynchronous Off-Policy Updates
Target-driven Visual Navigation in Indoor Scenes using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Learning Hand-Eye Coordination for Robotic Grasping with Deep Learning and Large-Scale Data Collection
Optimization-based locomotion planning, estimation, and control design for the atlas humanoid robot
Gaussian Processes for Data-Efficient Learning in Robotics and Control
PILCO: A Model-Based and Data-Efficient Approach to Policy Search
Motion Planning for Dynamic Folding of a Cloth with Two High-Speed Robot Hands and Two High-Speed Sliders
Towards Insect Cyborgs: Interfacing Microtechnologies With Metamorphic Development
Motion Planning for Dynamic Knotting of a Flexible Rope with a High-speed Robot Arm
Spatio-Temporal Prediction Modulates the Perception of Self-Produced Stimuli
Meet Shakey: the first electronic person—the fascinating and fearsome reality of a machine with a mind of its own
Automation Comes to More Factories With Robot Subscription Services
Visual Model-Based Reinforcement Learning As a Path towards Generalist Robots
Model-Based Reinforcement Learning from Pixels With Structured Latent Variable Models
End-To-End Deep Reinforcement Learning without Reward Engineering
Why Testing Self-Driving Cars in SF Is Challenging but Necessary
How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience
Scale: The Data Platform for AI; High quality training and validation data for AI applications
Flippy the Fast Food Robot Just Got Hired in 100 Restaurants
It’s (Still) Really Hard for Robots to Autonomously Do Household Chores
Today’s Robotic Surgery Turns Surgical Trainees Into Spectators
Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot, and What’s So Hard About Consumer Robotics
Forget about Drones, Forget about Dystopian Sci-Fi—A Terrifying New Generation of Autonomous Weapons Is Already Here. Meet the Small Band of Dedicated Optimists Battling Nefarious Governments and Bureaucratic Tedium to Stop the Proliferation of Killer Robots And, Just Maybe, save Humanity from Itself.
Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot (M4) With Appendage Repurposing for Locomotion Plasticity Enhancement
When Self-Driving Cars Can’t Help Themselves, Who Takes the Wheel?
A New Generation of AI-Powered Robots Is Taking over Warehouses
Japan Nuclear Plant Gets Help from US Robots: Obama Administration Sends Shipment of Robots to Help Regain Control over Stricken Fukushima Nuclear Plant
Alphabet Is Putting Its Prototype Robots to Work Cleaning up around Google’s Offices
Welcome to Simulation City, the Virtual World Where Waymo Tests Its Autonomous Vehicles
The Elusive Hunt for a Robot That Can Pick a Ripe Strawberry
This Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm Can Twist, Grasp—And Feel
The Robots Are Coming for Garment Workers. That’s Good for the U.S., Bad for Poor Countries: Automation Is Reaching into Trades That Once Seemed Immune, Transforming Sweatshops in Places like Bangladesh and Bringing Production back to America
SwarmCloak: Landing of a Swarm of Nano-Quadrotors on Human Arms [Video]
Target-Driven Visual Navigation in Indoor Scenes Using Deep Reinforcement Learning [Video]
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Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep Reinforcement Learning
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ACT: Learning Fine-Grained Bimanual Manipulation with Low-Cost Hardware
Bubble-Based Microrobots with Rapid Circular Motions for Epithelial Pinning and Drug Delivery
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Legged Locomotion in Challenging Terrains using Egocentric Vision
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Inner Monologue: Embodied Reasoning through Planning with Language Models
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LM-Nav: Robotic Navigation with Large Pre-Trained Models of Language, Vision, and Action
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