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20192025
most citedDIGIT: A Novel Design for a Low-Cost Compact High-Resolution Tactile Sensor with Application to In-Hand Manipulation

539 citations · 754 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.RO2025

Towards Embodiment Scaling Laws in Robot Locomotion

Bo Ai, Liu Dai, Nico Bohlinger +7

Cross-embodiment generalization underpins the vision of building generalist embodied agents for any robot, yet its enabling factors remain poorly understood. We investigate embodim…

cs.RO2024

RLDG: Robotic Generalist Policy Distillation via Reinforcement Learning

Charles Xu, Qiyang Li, Jianlan Luo +1

Recent advances in robotic foundation models have enabled the development of generalist policies that can adapt to diverse tasks. While these models show impressive flexibility, th…

cs.RO2023★ 103 cited

Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models

Embodiment Collaboration, Abby O'Neill, Abdul Rehman +291

Large, high-capacity models trained on diverse datasets have shown remarkable successes on efficiently tackling downstream applications. In domains from NLP to Computer Vision, thi…

cs.RO2023

Multi-Object Manipulation via Object-Centric Neural Scattering Functions

Stephen Tian, Yancheng Cai, Hong-Xing Yu +5

Learned visual dynamics models have proven effective for robotic manipulation tasks. Yet, it remains unclear how best to represent scenes involving multi-object interactions. Curre…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

A Control-Centric Benchmark for Video Prediction

Stephen Tian, Chelsea Finn, Jiajun Wu

Video is a promising source of knowledge for embodied agents to learn models of the world's dynamics. Large deep networks have become increasingly effective at modeling complex vid…

cs.CV2022★ 45 cited

MaskViT: Masked Visual Pre-Training for Video Prediction

Agrim Gupta, Stephen Tian, Yunzhi Zhang +3

The ability to predict future visual observations conditioned on past observations and motor commands can enable embodied agents to plan solutions to a variety of tasks in complex…

cs.LG2021★ 6 cited

A Workflow for Offline Model-Free Robotic Reinforcement Learning

Aviral Kumar, Anikait Singh, Stephen Tian +2

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) enables learning control policies by utilizing only prior experience, without any online interaction. This can allow robots to acquire generaliz…

cs.LG2020★ 17 cited

Model-Based Visual Planning with Self-Supervised Functional Distances

Stephen Tian, Suraj Nair, Frederik Ebert +4

A generalist robot must be able to complete a variety of tasks in its environment. One appealing way to specify each task is in terms of a goal observation. However, learning goal-…

cs.RO2020★ 539 cited

DIGIT: A Novel Design for a Low-Cost Compact High-Resolution Tactile Sensor with Application to In-Hand Manipulation

Mike Lambeta, Po-Wei Chou, Stephen Tian +9

Despite decades of research, general purpose in-hand manipulation remains one of the unsolved challenges of robotics. One of the contributing factors that limit current robotic man…

cs.RO2020

OmniTact: A Multi-Directional High Resolution Touch Sensor

Akhil Padmanabha, Frederik Ebert, Stephen Tian +3

Incorporating touch as a sensing modality for robots can enable finer and more robust manipulation skills. Existing tactile sensors are either flat, have small sensitive fields or…

cs.LG2019

Learning Predictive Models From Observation and Interaction

Karl Schmeckpeper, Annie Xie, Oleh Rybkin +4

Learning predictive models from interaction with the world allows an agent, such as a robot, to learn about how the world works, and then use this learned model to plan coordinated…

cs.RO2019★ 16 cited

RoboNet: Large-Scale Multi-Robot Learning

Sudeep Dasari, Frederik Ebert, Stephen Tian +6

Robot learning has emerged as a promising tool for taming the complexity and diversity of the real world. Methods based on high-capacity models, such as deep networks, hold the pro…

cs.RO2019★ 26 cited

Manipulation by Feel: Touch-Based Control with Deep Predictive Models

Stephen Tian, Frederik Ebert, Dinesh Jayaraman +4

Touch sensing is widely acknowledged to be important for dexterous robotic manipulation, but exploiting tactile sensing for continuous, non-prehensile manipulation is challenging.…