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Training intelligent agents that can drive autonomously in various urban and highway scenarios has been a hot topic in the robotics society within the last decades. However, the diversity of driving environments in terms of road topology…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Behrad Toghi , Rodolfo Valiente , Ramtin Pedarsani , Yaser P. Fallah

Although humanoid and quadruped robots provide a wide range of capabilities, current control methods, such as Deep Reinforcement Learning, focus mainly on single skills. This approach is inefficient for solving more complicated tasks where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Maciej Stępień , Rafael Kourdis , Constant Roux , Olivier Stasse

In this paper, we propose the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to improve zero-shot performance of a pre-trained policy by altering observations during inference. Modern robotic systems, powered by advanced neural networks,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Yusuke Miyashita , Dimitris Gahtidis , Colin La , Jeremy Rabinowicz , Jurgen Leitner

To perform manipulation tasks in the real world, robots need to operate on objects with various shapes, sizes and without access to geometric models. It is often unfeasible to train monolithic neural network policies across such large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Mohit Sharma , Oliver Kroemer

Learning motion tracking from rich human motion data is a foundational task for achieving general control in humanoid robots, enabling them to perform diverse behaviors. However, discrepancies in morphology and dynamics between humans and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yuhan Li , Peiyuan Zhi , Yunshen Wang , Tengyu Liu , Sixu Yan , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang , Baoxiong Jia , Siyuan Huang

For many applications of reinforcement learning it can be more convenient to specify both a reward function and constraints, rather than trying to design behavior through the reward function. For example, systems that physically interact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Joshua Achiam , David Held , Aviv Tamar , Pieter Abbeel

A prevailing view in robot learning is that simulation alone is not enough; effective sim-to-real transfer is widely believed to require at least some real-world data collection or task-specific fine-tuning to bridge the gap between…

Egocentric human videos provide scalable demonstrations for imitation learning, but existing corpora often lack either fine-grained, temporally localized action descriptions or dexterous hand annotations. We introduce OpenEgo, a multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ahad Jawaid , Yu Xiang

Generating robot motion that fulfills multiple tasks simultaneously is challenging due to the geometric constraints imposed by the robot. In this paper, we propose to solve multi-task problems through learning structured policies from human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 M. Asif Rana , Anqi Li , Dieter Fox , Sonia Chernova , Byron Boots , Nathan Ratliff

Meta-learning hyperparameter optimization (HPO) algorithms from prior experiments is a promising approach to improve optimization efficiency over objective functions from a similar distribution. However, existing methods are restricted to…

Recently, robotics has advanced significantly through the integration of larger models and large-scale datasets. However, challenges remain in applying these models to 3D spatial interactions and managing data collection costs. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Feng Yan , Fanfan Liu , Liming Zheng , Yufeng Zhong , Yiyang Huang , Zechao Guan , Chengjian Feng , Lin Ma

Cross-embodiment learning seeks to build generalist robots that operate across diverse morphologies, but differences in action spaces and kinematics hinder data sharing and policy transfer. This raises a central question: Is there any…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zihao He , Bo Ai , Tongzhou Mu , Yulin Liu , Weikang Wan , Jiawei Fu , Yilun Du , Henrik I. Christensen , Hao Su

Recent works use a neuro-symbolic framework for general manipulation policies. The advantage of this framework is that -- by applying off-the-shelf vision and language models -- the robot can break complex tasks down into semantic subtasks.…

Robots need to learn skills that can not only generalize across similar problems but also be directed to a specific goal. Previous methods either train a new skill for every different goal or do not infer the specific target in the presence…

In recent years, there has been a booming shift in the development of versatile, autonomous robots by introducing means to intuitively teach robots task-oriented behaviour by demonstration. In this paper, a method based on programming by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Jeevan Manavalan , Prabhakar Ray , Matthew Howard

Encouraged by the remarkable achievements of language and vision foundation models, developing generalist robotic agents through imitation learning, using large demonstration datasets, has become a prominent area of interest in robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Tongzhou Mu , Yijie Guo , Jie Xu , Ankit Goyal , Hao Su , Dieter Fox , Animesh Garg

Bimanual dexterous manipulation is a critical yet underexplored area in robotics. Its high-dimensional action space and inherent task complexity present significant challenges for policy learning, and the limited task diversity in existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Bohan Zhou , Haoqi Yuan , Yuhui Fu , Zongqing Lu

Humans are remarkably data-efficient when adapting to new unseen conditions, like driving a new car. In contrast, modern robotic control systems, like neural network policies trained using Reinforcement Learning (RL), are highly specialized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jonas Eschmann , Dario Albani , Giuseppe Loianno

We present Decentralized Distributed Proximal Policy Optimization (DD-PPO), a method for distributed reinforcement learning in resource-intensive simulated environments. DD-PPO is distributed (uses multiple machines), decentralized (lacks a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Erik Wijmans , Abhishek Kadian , Ari Morcos , Stefan Lee , Irfan Essa , Devi Parikh , Manolis Savva , Dhruv Batra

Embodied intelligence has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, driven by advances in computer vision, natural language processing, and the rise of large-scale multimodal models. Among its core challenges, robot manipulation stands…