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20202024
most citedDo As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances

524 citations · 971 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.RO2024

Vision Language Models are In-Context Value Learners

Yecheng Jason Ma, Joey Hejna, Ayzaan Wahid +15

Predicting temporal progress from visual trajectories is important for intelligent robots that can learn, adapt, and improve. However, learning such progress estimator, or temporal…

cs.RO2024★ 4 cited

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…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Learning to Learn Faster from Human Feedback with Language Model Predictive Control

Jacky Liang, Fei Xia, Wenhao Yu +47

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to exhibit a wide range of capabilities, such as writing robot code from language commands -- enabling non-experts to direct robot beha…

cs.RO2023★ 5 cited

RT-Trajectory: Robotic Task Generalization via Hindsight Trajectory Sketches

Jiayuan Gu, Sean Kirmani, Paul Wohlhart +14

Generalization remains one of the most important desiderata for robust robot learning systems. While recently proposed approaches show promise in generalization to novel objects, s…

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★ 273 cited

RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control

Anthony Brohan, Noah Brown, Justice Carbajal +51

We study how vision-language models trained on Internet-scale data can be incorporated directly into end-to-end robotic control to boost generalization and enable emergent semantic…

cs.RO2023★ 39 cited

Language to Rewards for Robotic Skill Synthesis

Wenhao Yu, Nimrod Gileadi, Chuyuan Fu +17

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exciting progress in acquiring diverse new capabilities through in-context learning, ranging from logical reasoning to code-writing.…

cs.RO2023★ 2 cited

Deep RL at Scale: Sorting Waste in Office Buildings with a Fleet of Mobile Manipulators

Alexander Herzog, Kanishka Rao, Karol Hausman +37

We describe a system for deep reinforcement learning of robotic manipulation skills applied to a large-scale real-world task: sorting recyclables and trash in office buildings. Rea…

cs.RO2023

On Designing a Learning Robot: Improving Morphology for Enhanced Task Performance and Learning

Maks Sorokin, Chuyuan Fu, Jie Tan +5

As robots become more prevalent, optimizing their design for better performance and efficiency is becoming increasingly important. However, current robot design practices overlook…

cs.RO2022★ 3 cited

Midas: A Multi-Joint Robotics Simulator with Intersection-Free Frictional Contact

Yunuo Chen, Minchen Li, Wenlong Lu +2

We introduce Midas, a robotics simulation framework based on the Incremental Potential Contact (IPC) model. Our simulator guarantees intersection-free, stable, and accurate resolut…

cs.LG2022★ 17 cited

Jump-Start Reinforcement Learning

Ikechukwu Uchendu, Ted Xiao, Yao Lu +9

Reinforcement learning (RL) provides a theoretical framework for continuously improving an agent's behavior via trial and error. However, efficiently learning policies from scratch…

cs.RO2022★ 524 cited

Do As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances

Michael Ahn, Anthony Brohan, Noah Brown +42

Large language models can encode a wealth of semantic knowledge about the world. Such knowledge could be extremely useful to robots aiming to act upon high-level, temporally extend…

cs.RO2020

COCOI: Contact-aware Online Context Inference for Generalizable Non-planar Pushing

Zhuo Xu, Wenhao Yu, Alexander Herzog +6

General contact-rich manipulation problems are long-standing challenges in robotics due to the difficulty of understanding complicated contact physics. Deep reinforcement learning…