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Recent advances in legged locomotion learning are still dominated by the utilization of geometric representations of the environment, limiting the robot's capability to respond to higher-level semantics such as human instructions. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 I Made Aswin Nahrendra , Seunghyun Lee , Dongkyu Lee , Hyun Myung

The co-adaptation of robots has been a long-standing research endeavour with the goal of adapting both body and behaviour of a system for a given task, inspired by the natural evolution of animals. Co-adaptation has the potential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Chang Rajani , Karol Arndt , David Blanco-Mulero , Kevin Sebastian Luck , Ville Kyrki

Deep networks trained on demonstrations of human driving have learned to follow roads and avoid obstacles. However, driving policies trained via imitation learning cannot be controlled at test time. A vehicle trained end-to-end to imitate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Felipe Codevilla , Matthias Müller , Antonio López , Vladlen Koltun , Alexey Dosovitskiy

One of the common ways children learn is by mimicking adults. Imitation learning focuses on learning policies with suitable performance from demonstrations generated by an expert, with an unspecified performance measure, and unobserved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Junzhe Zhang , Daniel Kumor , Elias Bareinboim

Today's robots attempt to learn new tasks by imitating human examples. These robots watch the human complete the task, and then try to match the actions taken by the human expert. However, this standard approach to visual imitation learning…

Recent robot learning methods commonly rely on imitation learning from massive robotic dataset collected with teleoperation. When facing a new task, such methods generally require collecting a set of new teleoperation data and finetuning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiang Zhu , Yichen Liu , Hezhong Li , Jianyu Chen

Machine learning is now playing important role in robotic object manipulation. In addition, force control is necessary for manipulating various objects to achieve robustness against perturbations of configurations and stiffness. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Sho Sakaino

One significant simplification in most previous work on robot learning is the closed-world assumption where the robot is assumed to know ahead of time a complete set of predicates describing the state of the physical world. However, robots…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Qiaozi Gao , Lanbo She , Joyce Y. Chai

In order for robots to operate effectively in homes and workplaces, they must be able to manipulate the articulated objects common within environments built for and by humans. Previous work learns kinematic models that prescribe this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Zhengyang Wu , Mohit Bansal , Matthew R. Walter

The language-conditioned robotic manipulation aims to transfer natural language instructions into executable actions, from simple pick-and-place to tasks requiring intent recognition and visual reasoning. Inspired by the dual process theory…

In recent years, the development of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) systems has been nothing short of remarkable. As these systems continue to evolve, they are being utilized in increasingly complex and unstructured environments,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Maryam Zare , Parham M. Kebria , Abbas Khosravi , Saeid Nahavandi

This paper comprehensively surveys research trends in imitation learning for contact-rich robotic tasks. Contact-rich tasks, which require complex physical interactions with the environment, represent a central challenge in robotics due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Toshiaki Tsuji , Yasuhiro Kato , Gokhan Solak , Heng Zhang , Tadej Petrič , Francesco Nori , Arash Ajoudani

Imitation learning offers a promising path for robots to learn general-purpose behaviors, but traditionally has exhibited limited scalability due to high data supervision requirements and brittle generalization. Inspired by recent advances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Soroush Nasiriany , Tian Gao , Ajay Mandlekar , Yuke Zhu

We introduce LUMOS, a language-conditioned multi-task imitation learning framework for robotics. LUMOS learns skills by practicing them over many long-horizon rollouts in the latent space of a learned world model and transfers these skills…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Iman Nematollahi , Branton DeMoss , Akshay L Chandra , Nick Hawes , Wolfram Burgard , Ingmar Posner

Robots are expected to replace menial tasks such as housework. Some of these tasks include nonprehensile manipulation performed without grasping objects. Nonprehensile manipulation is very difficult because it requires considering the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Yuki Saigusa , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

For robots to follow instructions from people, they must be able to connect the rich semantic information in human vocabulary, e.g. "can you get me the pink stuffed whale?" to their sensory observations and actions. This brings up a notably…

We aim to enable robot to learn object manipulation by imitation. Given external observations of demonstrations on object manipulations, we believe that two underlying problems to address in learning by imitation is 1) segment a given…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Zhen Zeng , Benjamin Kuipers

Attention-based architectures trained on internet-scale language data have demonstrated state of the art reasoning ability for various language-based tasks, such as logic problems and textual reasoning. Additionally, these Large Language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Mark Van der Merwe , Devesh Jha

Natural language offers an intuitive and flexible means for humans to communicate with the robots that we will increasingly work alongside in our homes and workplaces. Recent advancements have given rise to robots that are able to interpret…

Imitation learning is a powerful paradigm for robot skill acquisition. However, obtaining demonstrations suitable for learning a policy that maps from raw pixels to actions can be challenging. In this paper we describe how consumer-grade…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Tianhao Zhang , Zoe McCarthy , Owen Jow , Dennis Lee , Xi Chen , Ken Goldberg , Pieter Abbeel