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: a Steerable Generalist Robotic Foundation Model with Emergent Capabilities
Physical Intelligence, Bo Ai, Ali Amin +85
We present a new robotic foundation model, called , that can enable strong out-of-the-box performance in a wide range of scenarios. can follow diverse language i…
MEM: Multi-Scale Embodied Memory for Vision Language Action Models
Marcel Torne, Karl Pertsch, Homer Walke +14
Conventionally, memory in end-to-end robotic learning involves inputting a sequence of past observations into the learned policy. However, in complex multi-stage real-world tasks,…
Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies for Embodied Reasoning and Hierarchical Control
William Chen, Jagdeep Singh Bhatia, Catherine Glossop +6
Pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) can make semantic and visual inferences across diverse settings, providing valuable common-sense priors for robotic control. However, effec…
RoboReward: General-Purpose Vision-Language Reward Models for Robotics
Tony Lee, Andrew Wagenmaker, Karl Pertsch +3
A well-designed reward is critical for effective reinforcement learning-based policy improvement. In real-world robotics, obtaining such rewards typically requires either labor-int…
PolaRiS: Scalable Real-to-Sim Evaluations for Generalist Robot Policies
Arhan Jain, Mingtong Zhang, Kanav Arora +11
A significant challenge for robot learning research is our ability to accurately measure and compare the performance of robot policies. Benchmarking in robotics is historically cha…
Emergence of Human to Robot Transfer in Vision-Language-Action Models
Simar Kareer, Karl Pertsch, James Darpinian +5
Vision-language-action (VLA) models can enable broad open world generalization, but require large and diverse datasets. It is appealing to consider whether some of this data can co…
Robust Finetuning of Vision-Language-Action Robot Policies via Parameter Merging
Yajat Yadav, Zhiyuan Zhou, Andrew Wagenmaker +2
Generalist robot policies, trained on large and diverse datasets, have demonstrated the ability to generalize across a wide spectrum of behaviors, enabling a single policy to act i…
: a VLA That Learns From Experience
Physical Intelligence, Ali Amin, Raichelle Aniceto +53
We study how vision-language-action (VLA) models can improve through real-world deployments via reinforcement learning (RL). We present a general-purpose method, RL with Experience…
RoboArena: Distributed Real-World Evaluation of Generalist Robot Policies
Pranav Atreya, Karl Pertsch, Tony Lee +29
Comprehensive, unbiased, and comparable evaluation of modern generalist policies is uniquely challenging: existing approaches for robot benchmarking typically rely on heavy standar…
Knowledge Insulating Vision-Language-Action Models: Train Fast, Run Fast, Generalize Better
Danny Driess, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Brian Ichter +8
Vision-language-action (VLA) models provide a powerful approach to training control policies for physical systems, such as robots, by combining end-to-end learning with transfer of…
Training Strategies for Efficient Embodied Reasoning
William Chen, Suneel Belkhale, Suvir Mirchandani +4
Robot chain-of-thought reasoning (CoT) -- wherein a model predicts helpful intermediate representations before choosing actions -- provides an effective method for improving the ge…
: a Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Generalization
Physical Intelligence, Kevin Black, Noah Brown +33
In order for robots to be useful, they must perform practically relevant tasks in the real world, outside of the lab. While vision-language-action (VLA) models have demonstrated im…
AutoEval: Autonomous Evaluation of Generalist Robot Manipulation Policies in the Real World
Zhiyuan Zhou, Pranav Atreya, You Liang Tan +2
Scalable and reproducible policy evaluation has been a long-standing challenge in robot learning. Evaluations are critical to assess progress and build better policies, but evaluat…
Hi Robot: Open-Ended Instruction Following with Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Models
Lucy Xiaoyang Shi, Brian Ichter, Michael Equi +12
Generalist robots that can perform a range of different tasks in open-world settings must be able to not only reason about the steps needed to accomplish their goals, but also proc…
FAST: Efficient Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models
Karl Pertsch, Kyle Stachowicz, Brian Ichter +6
Autoregressive sequence models, such as Transformer-based vision-language action (VLA) policies, can be tremendously effective for capturing complex and generalizable robotic behav…
: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control
Kevin Black, Noah Brown, Danny Driess +21
Robot learning holds tremendous promise to unlock the full potential of flexible, general, and dexterous robot systems, as well as to address some of the deepest questions in artif…
Re-Mix: Optimizing Data Mixtures for Large Scale Imitation Learning
Joey Hejna, Chethan Bhateja, Yichen Jiang +2
Increasingly large imitation learning datasets are being collected with the goal of training foundation models for robotics. However, despite the fact that data selection has been…
Affordance-Guided Reinforcement Learning via Visual Prompting
Olivia Y. Lee, Annie Xie, Kuan Fang +2
Robots equipped with reinforcement learning (RL) have the potential to learn a wide range of skills solely from a reward signal. However, obtaining a robust and dense reward signal…
Robotic Control via Embodied Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Michał Zawalski, William Chen, Karl Pertsch +3
A key limitation of learned robot control policies is their inability to generalize outside their training data. Recent works on vision-language-action models (VLAs) have shown tha…
OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model
Moo Jin Kim, Karl Pertsch, Siddharth Karamcheti +15
Large policies pretrained on a combination of Internet-scale vision-language data and diverse robot demonstrations have the potential to change how we teach robots new skills: rath…
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…
Evaluating Real-World Robot Manipulation Policies in Simulation
Xuanlin Li, Kyle Hsu, Jiayuan Gu +13
The field of robotics has made significant advances towards generalist robot manipulation policies. However, real-world evaluation of such policies is not scalable and faces reprod…
Yell At Your Robot: Improving On-the-Fly from Language Corrections
Lucy Xiaoyang Shi, Zheyuan Hu, Tony Z. Zhao +5
Hierarchical policies that combine language and low-level control have been shown to perform impressively long-horizon robotic tasks, by leveraging either zero-shot high-level plan…
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…