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Recently, model-free reinforcement learning algorithms have been shown to solve challenging problems by learning from extensive interaction with the environment. A significant issue with transferring this success to the robotics domain is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Jake Bruce , Niko Suenderhauf , Piotr Mirowski , Raia Hadsell , Michael Milford

Learning transferable knowledge from unlabeled video data and applying it in new environments is a fundamental capability of intelligent agents. This work presents VideoWorld 2, which extends VideoWorld and offers the first investigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zhongwei Ren , Yunchao Wei , Xiao Yu , Guixun Luo , Yao Zhao , Bingyi Kang , Jiashi Feng , Xiaojie Jin

Humanoid robots that can autonomously operate in diverse environments have the potential to help address labour shortages in factories, assist elderly at homes, and colonize new planets. While classical controllers for humanoid robots have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Ilija Radosavovic , Tete Xiao , Bike Zhang , Trevor Darrell , Jitendra Malik , Koushil Sreenath

The success of reinforcement learning for real world robotics has been, in many cases limited to instrumented laboratory scenarios, often requiring arduous human effort and oversight to enable continuous learning. In this work, we discuss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Henry Zhu , Justin Yu , Abhishek Gupta , Dhruv Shah , Kristian Hartikainen , Avi Singh , Vikash Kumar , Sergey Levine

We present a fully autonomous real-world RL framework for mobile manipulation that can learn policies without extensive instrumentation or human supervision. This is enabled by 1) task-relevant autonomy, which guides exploration towards…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Russell Mendonca , Emmanuel Panov , Bernadette Bucher , Jiuguang Wang , Deepak Pathak

World modeling is a crucial task for enabling intelligent agents to effectively interact with humans and operate in dynamic environments. In this work, we propose MineWorld, a real-time interactive world model on Minecraft, an open-ended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Junliang Guo , Yang Ye , Tianyu He , Haoyu Wu , Yushu Jiang , Tim Pearce , Jiang Bian

In order to autonomously learn wide repertoires of complex skills, robots must be able to learn from their own autonomously collected data, without human supervision. One learning signal that is always available for autonomously collected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Frederik Ebert , Chelsea Finn , Alex X. Lee , Sergey Levine

We introduce Latent Particle World Model (LPWM), a self-supervised object-centric world model scaled to real-world multi-object datasets and applicable in decision-making. LPWM autonomously discovers keypoints, bounding boxes, and object…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Tal Daniel , Carl Qi , Dan Haramati , Amir Zadeh , Chuan Li , Aviv Tamar , Deepak Pathak , David Held

Because imitation learning relies on human demonstrations in hard-to-simulate settings, the inclusion of force control in this method has resulted in a shortage of training data, even with a simple change in speed. Although the field of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Nozomu Masuya , Hiroshi Sato , Koki Yamane , Takuya Kusume , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

World models have demonstrated impressive performance on robotic learning tasks. Many such tasks inherently demand multimodal reasoning; for example, filling a bottle with water will lead to visual information alone being ambiguous or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Fan Zhang , Michael Gienger

Children learn though play. We introduce the analogous idea of learning programs through play. In this approach, a program induction system (the learner) is given a set of tasks and initial background knowledge. Before solving the tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Andrew Cropper

Modeling dexterous hand-object interactions is challenging as it requires understanding how subtle finger motions influence the environment through contact with objects. While recent world models address interaction modeling, they typically…

We introduce AgentWorld, an interactive simulation platform for developing household mobile manipulation capabilities. Our platform combines automated scene construction that encompasses layout generation, semantic asset placement, visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yizheng Zhang , Zhenjun Yu , Jiaxin Lai , Cewu Lu , Lei Han

Learning an accurate model of the environment is essential for model-based control tasks. Existing methods in robotic visuomotor control usually learn from data with heavily labelled actions, object entities or locations, which can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Haoqi Yuan , Ruihai Wu , Andrew Zhao , Haipeng Zhang , Zihan Ding , Hao Dong

Effective robotic manipulation requires policies that can anticipate physical outcomes and adapt to real-world environments. Effective robotic manipulation requires policies that can anticipate physical outcomes and adapt to real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Ge Yuan , Qiyuan Qiao , Jing Zhang , Dong Xu

Despite the impressive recent advances in learning-based robot control, ensuring robustness to out-of-distribution conditions remains an open challenge. Safety filters can, in principle, keep arbitrary control policies from incurring…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Duy P. Nguyen , Kai-Chieh Hsu , Wenhao Yu , Jie Tan , Jaime F. Fisac

Training general-purpose robots requires learning from large and diverse data sources. Current approaches rely heavily on teleoperated demonstrations which are difficult to scale. We present a scalable framework for training manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Marion Lepert , Jiaying Fang , Jeannette Bohg

Reinforcement learning (RL) promises to unlock capabilities beyond imitation learning for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, but its requirement for massive real-world interaction prevents direct deployment on physical robots. Recent work…

A world model creates a surrogate world to train a controller and predict safety violations by learning the internal dynamic model of systems. However, the existing world models rely solely on statistical learning of how observations change…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Zhenjiang Mao , Siqi Dai , Yuang Geng , Ivan Ruchkin

We present a visual imitation learning framework that enables learning of robot action policies solely based on expert samples without any robot trials. Robot exploration and on-policy trials in a real-world environment could often be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Alan Wu , AJ Piergiovanni , Michael S. Ryoo