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Robot Learning: A Tutorial

Robotics 2025-10-15 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

Robot learning is at an inflection point, driven by rapid advancements in machine learning and the growing availability of large-scale robotics data. This shift from classical, model-based methods to data-driven, learning-based paradigms is unlocking unprecedented capabilities in autonomous systems. This tutorial navigates the landscape of modern robot learning, charting a course from the foundational principles of Reinforcement Learning and Behavioral Cloning to generalist, language-conditioned models capable of operating across diverse tasks and even robot embodiments. This work is intended as a guide for researchers and practitioners, and our goal is to equip the reader with the conceptual understanding and practical tools necessary to contribute to developments in robot learning, with ready-to-use examples implemented in lerobot\texttt{lerobot}.

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@article{arxiv.2510.12403,
  title  = {Robot Learning: A Tutorial},
  author = {Francesco Capuano and Caroline Pascal and Adil Zouitine and Thomas Wolf and Michel Aractingi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.12403},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Tutorial on Robot Learning using LeRobot, the end-to-end robot learning library developed by Hugging Face