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Generalist robot manipulators need to learn a wide variety of manipulation skills across diverse environments. Current robot training pipelines rely on humans to provide kinesthetic demonstrations or to program simulation environments and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Pushkal Katara , Zhou Xian , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Training general robotic policies from heterogeneous data for different tasks is a significant challenge. Existing robotic datasets vary in different modalities such as color, depth, tactile, and proprioceptive information, and collected in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Lirui Wang , Jialiang Zhao , Yilun Du , Edward H. Adelson , Russ Tedrake

Multi-task reinforcement learning (RL) aims to find a single policy that effectively solves multiple tasks at the same time. This paper presents a constrained formulation for multi-task RL where the goal is to maximize the average…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Sihan Zeng , Thinh T. Doan , Justin Romberg

Achieving generalizability in solving out-of-distribution tasks is one of the ultimate goals of learning robotic manipulation. Recent progress of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has shown that VLM-based task planners can alleviate the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Zeren Chen , Zhelun Shi , Xiaoya Lu , Lehan He , Sucheng Qian , Zhenfei Yin , Wanli Ouyang , Jing Shao , Yu Qiao , Cewu Lu , Lu Sheng

Recent progress in autonomous code generation has fueled excitement around AI agents capable of accelerating scientific discovery by running experiments. However, there is currently no benchmark that evaluates whether such agents can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Gyeongwon James Kim , Alex Wilf , Louis-Philippe Morency , Daniel Fried

The emerging field of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) for humanoid robots faces several fundamental challenges, including the high cost of data acquisition, the lack of a standardized benchmark, and the significant gap between simulation and…

Recent large language models (LLMs) are promising for making decisions in grounded environments. However, LLMs frequently fail in complex decision-making tasks due to the misalignment between the pre-trained knowledge in LLMs and the actual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Siqi Ouyang , Lei Li

Advancements in large language models offer strong potential for enhancing virtual simulated patients (VSPs) in medical education by providing scalable alternatives to resource-intensive traditional methods. However, current VSPs often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Victor De Marez , Jens Van Nooten , Luna De Bruyne , Walter Daelemans

Autonomous learning of dexterous, long-horizon robotic skills has been a longstanding pursuit of embodied AI. Recent advances in robotic reinforcement learning (RL) have demonstrated remarkable performance and robustness in real-world…

Simulators are an important tool in robotics that is used to develop robot software and generate synthetic data for machine learning algorithms. Faster simulation can result in better software validation and larger amounts of data. Previous…

Enhancing the generalization capability of robotic learning to enable robots to operate effectively in diverse, unseen scenes is a fundamental and challenging problem. Existing approaches often depend on pretraining with large-scale data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xinhua Wang , Kun Wu , Zhen Zhao , Hu Cao , Yinuo Zhao , Zhiyuan Xu , Meng Li , Shichao Fan , Di Wu , Yixue Zhang , Ning Liu , Zhengping Che , Jian Tang

Reinforcement learning (RL) provides a naturalistic framing for learning through trial and error, which is appealing both because of its simplicity and effectiveness and because of its resemblance to how humans and animals acquire skills…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Archit Sharma , Kelvin Xu , Nikhil Sardana , Abhishek Gupta , Karol Hausman , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

Sim2real, that is, the transfer of learned control policies from simulation to real world, is an area of growing interest in robotics due to its potential to efficiently handle complex tasks. The sim2real approach faces challenges due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Bas van der Heijden , Jelle Luijkx , Laura Ferranti , Jens Kober , Robert Babuska

Towards the aim of generalized robotic manipulation, spatial generalization is the most fundamental capability that requires the policy to work robustly under different spatial distribution of objects, environment and agent itself. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Xiuwei Xu , Angyuan Ma , Hankun Li , Bingyao Yu , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Real-world visualization tasks involve complex, multi-modal requirements that extend beyond simple text-to-chart generation, requiring reference images, code examples, and iterative refinement. Current systems exhibit fundamental…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jinwei Lu , Yuanfeng Song , Chen Zhang , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong

In this study, our goal is to create interactive avatar agents that can autonomously plan and animate nuanced facial movements realistically, from both visual and behavioral perspectives. Given high-level inputs about the environment and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Duomin Wang , Bin Dai , Yu Deng , Baoyuan Wang

Reusing large datasets is crucial to scale vision-based robotic manipulators to everyday scenarios due to the high cost of collecting robotic datasets. However, robotic platforms possess varying control schemes, camera viewpoints, kinematic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Jonathan Yang , Dorsa Sadigh , Chelsea Finn

In computer vision, the development of robust algorithms capable of generalizing effectively in real-world scenarios more and more often requires large-scale datasets collected under diverse environmental conditions. However, acquiring such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Matteo Scucchia , Matteo Ferrara , Davide Maltoni

The ability of robots to interpret human instructions and execute manipulation tasks necessitates the availability of task-relevant tabletop scenes for training. However, traditional methods for creating these scenes rely on time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jinkun Hao , Naifu Liang , Zhen Luo , Xudong Xu , Weipeng Zhong , Ran Yi , Yichen Jin , Zhaoyang Lyu , Feng Zheng , Lizhuang Ma , Jiangmiao Pang

With their prominent scene understanding and reasoning capabilities, pre-trained visual-language models (VLMs) such as GPT-4V have attracted increasing attention in robotic task planning. Compared with traditional task planning strategies,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Aoran Mei , Jianhua Wang , Guo-Niu Zhu , Zhongxue Gan