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most citedVisual Foresight: Model-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Robotic Control

251 citations · 573 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

Gemini Robotics 1.5: Pushing the Frontier of Generalist Robots with Advanced Embodied Reasoning, Thinking, and Motion Transfer

Gemini Robotics Team, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Saminda Abeyruwan +169

General-purpose robots need a deep understanding of the physical world, advanced reasoning, and general and dexterous control. This report introduces the latest generation of the G…

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.RO2025★ 6 cited

Gemini Robotics: Bringing AI into the Physical World

Gemini Robotics Team, Saminda Abeyruwan, Joshua Ainslie +115

Recent advancements in large multimodal models have led to the emergence of remarkable generalist capabilities in digital domains, yet their translation to physical agents such as…

cs.RO2025

A Taxonomy for Evaluating Generalist Robot Manipulation Policies

Jensen Gao, Suneel Belkhale, Sudeep Dasari +3

Machine learning for robot manipulation promises to unlock generalization to novel tasks and environments. But how should we measure the progress of these policies towards generali…

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.RO2024

The Ingredients for Robotic Diffusion Transformers

Sudeep Dasari, Oier Mees, Sebastian Zhao +2

In recent years roboticists have achieved remarkable progress in solving increasingly general tasks on dexterous robotic hardware by leveraging high capacity Transformer network ar…

cs.RO2024★ 6 cited

Scaling Cross-Embodied Learning: One Policy for Manipulation, Navigation, Locomotion and Aviation

Ria Doshi, Homer Walke, Oier Mees +2

Modern machine learning systems rely on large datasets to attain broad generalization, and this often poses a challenge in robot learning, where each robotic platform and task migh…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

HRP: Human Affordances for Robotic Pre-Training

Mohan Kumar Srirama, Sudeep Dasari, Shikhar Bahl +1

In order to *generalize* to various tasks in the wild, robotic agents will need a suitable representation (i.e., vision network) that enables the robot to predict optimal actions g…

cs.RO2024★ 8 cited

Octo: An Open-Source Generalist Robot Policy

Octo Model Team, Dibya Ghosh, Homer Walke +16

Large policies pretrained on diverse robot datasets have the potential to transform robotic learning: instead of training new policies from scratch, such generalist robot policies…

cs.RO2024★ 3 cited

DROID: A Large-Scale In-The-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset

Alexander Khazatsky, Karl Pertsch, Suraj Nair +98

The creation of large, diverse, high-quality robot manipulation datasets is an important stepping stone on the path toward more capable and robust robotic manipulation policies. Ho…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

An Unbiased Look at Datasets for Visuo-Motor Pre-Training

Sudeep Dasari, Mohan Kumar Srirama, Unnat Jain +1

Visual representation learning hold great promise for robotics, but is severely hampered by the scarcity and homogeneity of robotics datasets. Recent works address this problem by…

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★ 3 cited

MyoDex: A Generalizable Prior for Dexterous Manipulation

Vittorio Caggiano, Sudeep Dasari, Vikash Kumar

Human dexterity is a hallmark of motor control. Our hands can rapidly synthesize new behaviors despite the complexity (multi-articular and multi-joints, with 23 joints controlled b…

cs.RO2023

Manipulate by Seeing: Creating Manipulation Controllers from Pre-Trained Representations

Jianren Wang, Sudeep Dasari, Mohan Kumar Srirama +2

The field of visual representation learning has seen explosive growth in the past years, but its benefits in robotics have been surprisingly limited so far. Prior work uses generic…

cs.RO2022

Learning Dexterous Manipulation from Exemplar Object Trajectories and Pre-Grasps

Sudeep Dasari, Abhinav Gupta, Vikash Kumar

Learning diverse dexterous manipulation behaviors with assorted objects remains an open grand challenge. While policy learning methods offer a powerful avenue to attack this proble…

cs.RO2022★ 1 cited

RB2: Robotic Manipulation Benchmarking with a Twist

Sudeep Dasari, Jianren Wang, Joyce Hong +12

Benchmarks offer a scientific way to compare algorithms using objective performance metrics. Good benchmarks have two features: (a) they should be widely useful for many research g…

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.LG2020★ 7 cited

Transformers for One-Shot Visual Imitation

Sudeep Dasari, Abhinav Gupta

Humans are able to seamlessly visually imitate others, by inferring their intentions and using past experience to achieve the same end goal. In other words, we can parse complex se…

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.RO2018★ 251 cited

Visual Foresight: Model-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Robotic Control

Frederik Ebert, Chelsea Finn, Sudeep Dasari +3

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can learn complex robotic skills from raw sensory inputs, but have yet to achieve the kind of broad generalization and applicability dem…

cs.RO2018★ 40 cited

Robustness via Retrying: Closed-Loop Robotic Manipulation with Self-Supervised Learning

Frederik Ebert, Sudeep Dasari, Alex X. Lee +2

Prediction is an appealing objective for self-supervised learning of behavioral skills, particularly for autonomous robots. However, effectively utilizing predictive models for con…

cs.LG2018★ 109 cited

One-Shot Imitation from Observing Humans via Domain-Adaptive Meta-Learning

Tianhe Yu, Chelsea Finn, Annie Xie +4

Humans and animals are capable of learning a new behavior by observing others perform the skill just once. We consider the problem of allowing a robot to do the same -- learning fr…